You keep sayin' you got something for me
Something you call love but confess
You've been a'messin' where
you shouldn't 've been a'messin'
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
Yea -You keep lyin'
when you oughta be truthin'
And you keep losing
when you oughta not bet
You keep samin'
when you oughta be a'changin'
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 playin'
where you shouldn't be playin'
And you keep thinkin'
that you'll never get burnt
Hah - I've just found me
a brand new box of matches (Yea)
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'!
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - cloze exercise
The song's music was composed by Lee Hazlewood and the lyrics were written and first recorded by Nancy Sinatra, to be released in February 1966. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'!" became a #1 hit in the United States and United Kingdom Pop charts. In the following years many cover versions were released by several singers, in a range of styles. Language Notes:
- keep + verb+ing= continue to do something
- gonna= going to
- oughta= ought to
- ain't = informal contraction for am not, are not, is not, has not, have not.
- saming= invented for the song, to mean "doing the same thing over and over again"
- truthing= invented for the song, to mean "tellin the truth"
- a'changing -- "a-" before a verb was a common prefix in 16th-century English. It is still today quite common in in the US, but it is not an "Americanism". It is an archaic form of English that survives in America, where its usage is largely regional: "a-changing" compared to "changing" evokes a rustic, slang notation.
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