"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" lyrics from the soundtrack for "The Dukes of Hazzard"

These Boots Are Made For Walkin' Lyrics

From the soundtrack for The Dukes of Hazzard

More Jessica Simpson songs.

Are you ready boots'

Start walkin

Yee har

Let's go

You keep saying you go something for me (uh)

Well officer I don't mind to say you do

Now your looking right where I thought you'd be looking

Legs come here when laws in front of you

These boots are made for walkin

And that's just what they'll do

One of theses days these boots are goanna walk all over you

You believe you've stopped me for a reason (uh)

Now I'm pretending my bending just for fun

You keep playing where I got you playing (yeah)

These double - D's and this is where to fly

These boots are made for walkin

And that's just what they'll do

One of theses days these boots are goanna walk all over you

I'm the girl with the good boys who don't mean you no harm

This gotten way with pass the county charm

The aint no crime in heaven it'll find

Sweat my stride

Got my sexy eyes

Where my boots at (haha)

Strut ya stuff come on

Hey ya'll

Wanna come and see something (uh uh, uh uh)

Can't touch, can get a hand clap for the way I work my back

Tick tock all around the clock drop it

Push ya tush, like that

Can I get a sueee

Can I get a yee har

You keep thinking what you shouldn't be thinking

Another to far is down till you kissing ground

I'm a gonna send you back home till you crying

But Uncle Jessie he sure is gonna be proud

These boots are made for walkin

And that's just what they'll do

One of theses days these boots are goanna walk all over you

These boots are made for walkin

And that's just what they'll do

One of theses days these boots are goanna walk all over you

Come on boots

Start walking

Come on ladies

Hey ya'll

Wanna come and see something (uh uh, uh uh)

Can't touch, can get a hand clap for the way I work my back

Tick tock all around the clock drop it

Push ya tush, like that

Can I get a sueee

Can I get a yee har

Come on Willie (ohh yeah, owww)

Yeee har

Willie Nelson everybody (uh)

Let's go home now

THE SONG

Originally penned by both Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, Simpson's cover of Sinatra's classic hit (which has been produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) takes on a more urban and modern twist to the track. Simpson even wrote new music and lyrics for the song, including the song's new bridge and its risque rap-like/spoken breakdown.

However, due to the legal aspect of music publishing, she is not credited for the new parts. In this country flavored, yet hip-hop influenced cover, she sings about how her "boots are made for walkin'" from the point of view of her character in the movie, Daisy Duke (explaining the need for new lyrics).

MUSIC VIDEO

The music video directed by Brett Ratner, has caused some controversy as one of the most sexual music videos of 2005. The video begins with Jessica (representing the character of Daisy Duke) climbing out of the General Lee (the famous car owned by the Duke family) into a bar to cause some ruckus. Simpson, a waitress at the bar, can be seen flirting with customers as she grinds suggestively and dances on the barstand. However, her actions are meant to be seen and not touched, and one customer takes things a bit too far for her, when he harshly slaps her ass with his hand.

Her anger can be seen to viewers, but she puts on a front and pretends to flirt with her admirer. Then, out of nowhere, her hands rise, and she punches her harasser onto the floor. Still doozed out from Jessica's punch, the man stands up only to bump into another man. The bumping is not kindly received and the bumpee retaliates by punching the bumper. He, is in turn punched by another man, presumably a friend of the man who has now been punched twice. Inevitably, a bar fight soon breaks out.

The fight does not phase Simpson at all, as she begins to sing the song's bridge with the assistance of Willie Nelson on guitar and backup vocals. Not surpisingly, most young men of the bar are knocked out due to the bar fight; the dancers of the bar bear no sympathy to them, and the men are prodded until they clear off the floor as Jessica arrives to join the dancers. Simpson and the dancers then proceed to perform and dance the song's spoken/rapped breakdown as they ask listeners "Can I get a handclap, from the way I work my back?", and "Can I get soo-wee, can I get a yee-hah?"

As the men of the bar recover from their injuries, Jessica and her dancers continue to strut, but the video fades away at times to a mysterious figure entering a barn for unknown purposes. The video then shifts back to the bar where the man have joined the dancers and Jessica in an impromtu square dance. The whole bar continues to dance intercut with scenes of the mysterious figure until the song reaches its climax and the mystery is finally revealed: it is Simpson herself with nothing on except a pink bikini!

Without further ado, the video then shifts to the song's most controversial scene: Jessica in the aforementioned pink bikini as she proceeds to wash the General Lee with only a bucket of water and some soap. The General Lee doesn't seem to get much cleaner, as Simpson spends much of her time grinding in a sexually suggestive manner against the car. The scene was well publicized with Jessica admitting to the public that she went on the Zone Diet to achieve her well toned look in the video. Like they had done so in the past, Christian groups once again attacked Jessica Simpson for this racy video.

CHART SUCCESS

"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" ended up as another hit for Simpson, due largely in part to digital downloads from legal downloading sites such as iTunes; becuase of this, the single became a #1 hit on the Hot Digital Tracks and went top twenty on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Pop 100. The song also had one of the highest non-American Idol single debuts (#33) of 2005.

Unfortunately, the song was not able to break into the Top 10 due to the track being ignored by radio. However, in 2005, new trends emerged on the charts for the first time as displayed by songs like "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay, "Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz, "You And Me" by Lifehouse and "Beverly Hills" by Weezer, among others. These songs debuted high due to downloads, fell down the charts due to downloads going down, but slowly, but surely reclimbed the charts with late airplay adds. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" displays this behavior, so as of now, the song should not be written off just yet.

Source: Wikipedia