Boots

"Boots" is the opening track from The Residents' debut album Meet The Residents, released in 1974 on Ralph Records. 
Apparently born from a desire to see how avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen would have approached Nancy Sinatra's famous single "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" (written by Lee Hazlewood),Harvey Sox, "On Meet The Residents", 1974 "Boots" is the first publicly released example of The Residents' tendency to deconstruct and re-interpret popular music.
== History ==
On the original 1974 release of Meet The Residents, "Boots" has a duration of 1:38 and segues into the following track, "Numb Erone", but is heavily edited on the 1977 remixed version and loses most of the segue.
The Residents recorded the song again around 2014 for an unfinished re-recording of Meet The Residents. Versions from these sessions can be heard on Charles Bobuck's 2017 EP Clank Clank Clank, and on the 2018 pREServed reissue of Meet The Residents (entitled "Boots Again").
== Lyrics ==
=== Original lyrics ===
 You keep saying you got something for me
 Something you call love, but confess
 You've been messing where you shouldn't have been messing
 And now someone else is getting all your best
 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
 Yeah
 You keep lying when you ought to be truthing
 You keep losing when you ought to not bet
 You keep saming when you ought to be changing
 Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet
 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
 You keep playing where you shouldn't be playing
 And you keep thinking 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 walking! 
=== The Residents' version ===
 Boots were meant for walkin'
 That's just what they'll do.
 One of these days
 These boots are gonna
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over you
 Walk all over youIma Buddy, Ima Buddy's Totally Impartial Companion to Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated BIG MAMAS, 1992
== Credits ==
* Written By: Lee Hazelwood
== List of releases ==
* Meet The Residents (1974) El Ralpho studio recording, February-October 1973 (original mono version, 1:26)
*Meet The Residents stereo remix (1977) El Ralpho studio recording, February-October 1973 (1977 stereo remix, 0:50)
*Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide To The Residents (1993) El Ralpho studio recording, February-October 1973 (excerpt, 0:38)
*The Sycamore Street Studio (1974-77 Embracing Obscurity) (2014) 
*Walk Over (2015) Charles Bobuck studio recording, 2014 (Siri overdub mix, 4:53)
*80 Aching Orphans (2017) 
*Clank Clank Clank EP by Charles Bobuck (2017) Charles Bobuck studio recording, 2014 (3:38)
*Meet The Residents pREServed CD edition (2018) Studio recording, ca. 2014 ("Boots Again", 2:04)
*Meet The Residents pREServed vinyl edition (2023) 
=== List of versions ===
== Buy Or Die! ==
===Listen online===
* "Boots" (original mono version) on Spotify
* "Boots" (original mono version) on Apple Music
* "Boots" (pREServed mono version) on Spotify
* "Boots" (pREServed mono version) on Apple Music
* "Boots" (pREServed stereo version) on Spotify
* "Boots" (pREServed stereo version) on Apple Music
* "Boots Again" on Spotify
* "Boots Again" on Apple Music
== External links and references ==
* Meet The Residents at The Residents Historical
* "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" at Wikipedia
* "These Boots Are Made for Walkin' at Genius
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