lee hazelwood
In 1965, young Nancy Sinatra had floppet with 3 singles, and was introduced to songwriter and producer Lee Hazlewood to save the remains. He offered her a party song he made for fun some three years before, and told her to sing as if she were "a sixteen-year-old girl who fucks truck drivers". The song went to the top of the charts in way past half the world, including both US and UK, Canada, Australia and Ireland, and has been called "the finest bitchy kiss-off in pop history".
This started a to and fro collaboration between Nancy and Lee: spanning 4 decades, and resulting in 3 duet albums, the last one released 2004, 3 years before Lee's death of renal cancer. Lee's dry baritone matches Nancy's powerful voice perfect.
And: there is nothing in the lyrics preventing men to sing it. 350 unisex covers are counted so far, and the songwriter himself cut it in 1966.
you keep sayin' you got something for me
something you call love but confess
you've been messin' where you shouldn't have been messin'
and now someone else is gettin' all your best
well these boots are made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
you keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'
you keep losin' when you oughta not bet
you keep samin' when you oughta be changin'
what's right is right but you ain't been right yet
these boots are made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
you keep playin' where you shouldn't be playin'
and you keep thinkin' that you'll never get burnt ... hah!
well I've just found me a brand new box of matches ... yeah!
and what He knows you ain't had time to learn
these boots are made for walking and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
are you ready boots ? start walkin'...!
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E E7 you keep sayin' you got something for me E E7 something you call love but confess A A7 you've been messin' where you shouldn't have been messin' E E7 and now someone else is gettin' all your best G Em G Em well these boots are made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do G Em [stop] [B7sus4] E one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you
