At seventy one years old, I’ve had lots of pairs of shoes, I sat counting them all trying to remember a favourite, I counted one hundred and fifty one and a half pairs, but it’s a strange thing, I can’t remember ever having only one foot.

I asked a friend to help with songs with or about shoes, some of the connections are a little tenuous, but he’s a good friend and I don’t want to upset him, besides he’s bigger than me.
Anyway, follows is a little rhyme, which includes some songs, parts of songs, shoe related songs and some of the artists. There are two lines from Mr Tambourine Man, by Bob Dylan, one of course in the title.

Shoes

One’s feet connect one to the earth, there should be nought between
But I wouldn’t recommend bare foot, on the pavements, things obscene
Footwear then a necessity, in the country or the city
“Kinky boots” not my thing, though “Emma Peel” looked pretty

“Vagabond Shoes” worn by “Frank Sinatra”
Because of his connections with the mafia ?
“Boots that were made for walking” over someone sounds nasty
Was it that vagabond Frank, can you tell us “Nancy ?”

“Blue suede shoes” not what I’d choose at at all
Nor sneakers or creepers, I’m not the type to crawl
“Daisy roots” workman’s boots more my kind of attire
I’m a basic man, a working man down to earth is what I desire

“Crocodile shoes”, I didn’t know they wore em, but my mate he tells me so
Even so they’re quite thin, a “Nail” would go through your toe
“Nutini” wore “New Shoes” good luck with that one “Paolo”
New shoes alway cripple me until they’re worn enough to go.

If I “Walk like an Egyptian”, with that strange profile
I could visit Egypt, I could go see Nile.
“Walking on Sunshine” is hard to do in the UK
“Walk like a man” in the “Valley” rain, rain, rain all the way.

There is a clog called a sabot from which came a word well known
That word is sabotage, because it ruins a machine when thrown
My feet are itchy now ready to go, all the songs I’ll leave you wondering
I’ll get my coat and my hat “Wait only for my boot heals wait only to be wandering”

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An interesting fact, the line “Daisy Roots” Cockney rhyming slang for boots, came from a song by Lonnie Donegan called “My Old Man’s a Dustman.”
As I’ve mentioned in my posts a couple times my old car is a Bond Equipe. Lonnie Donegan owed one of these rare cars, although a different earlier model similar to picture below.

All words Meadowhead Bard.