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Red Boots

from Finally Home by Kathleen Dunbar

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I wrote this song around 2005. I have always loved red cowboy boots, but I could never find the right pair--until this year (2012!) RIGHT before I went into production of my live music videos, I found them! Yeah! You can see me happliy wearing them in the video for "Baby Put Your Red Shoes On!"

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Red Boots
By Kathleen Dunbar
Copyrighted by Kathleen Dunbar

My aunt had boots
Pretty and red
That she kept at the foot
Of her great big bed
When you grow up fine
To a young woman true
I’ll give you them boots
When they call to you
The boots helped me find
Your Uncle Blue
That’ll show you
What a good pair of boots can do

I growed from a girl
I growed right fine
She loved me like a mother
All of the time
She raised me strong
She raised me true
She raised me
Just like a mother would do

Chorus
Rose, Rose
Rose you gotta go
To the valley down down
To the valley down below
Rose, Rose
Put your boots on
Get you down to the valley
To the valley town

I met a man
The man met me
I thought it would last
Forever and a day
My aunt she gave him
A long sour frown
Said honey that man’s leavin town
She told me Rose
I hope I’m wrong
He’s a slippery fella
He won’t be here long
I asked her for the boots
She said it wasn’t time
Grow up a little more
And they’ll keep just fine

Chorus

My lover broke my heart
He said he had to go
Said he found a new love
In the valley down below
I’m leavin you girl
Gonna go gonna go
And you’re never gonna see me
No more no no
I bought a pretty dress
Thought his heart might change
If I looked this way
If I walked his way
I bought a pretty dress
But his heart went astray
And I spent my money
Yeah I spent it all in vain

Dog barks
Wakes up the town
Owl goes hoo
Spins her head around
My lover’s new love
She ran away
I heard him sorrowin
The other day
He came up from the valley
Came up not down
Cried in his beer
Cried all around town
Wanted me back
I said you gotta go
You treated me unkind
I don’t love you no more

Chorus

I worked real hard
The season turned around
The summer went rust
And the rust went down
Snow fell thick
Froze the water in the well
Spring came along
And made the sweet buds swell
How long a season
No love for me
My auntie says honey go down:
Down down honey
Go down below
Down to the valley
Where the sweet water flows
Down from this mountain
Where the cold wind blows
Where the shadow falls down
Honey go

She gave me them boots
The boots fit me fine
I went to the rodeo
Down in that valley town
My heart full of sorrow
Cuz I was left first
But I started lookin round
For to quench my thirst
A man rode in
On a wild black horse
Wind and the weather
Had used him worse
But he cleaned up fine
And his heart was strong
And he kept me at the dancing
Through the whole night long

If you have a lover
And he proves untrue
Honey that man’s no good for you
Bide your time, girl
Take your boots down
Get you down to the valley
To the valley town
Not for your old love
Put for your new
You’ll know him
When he dances right up to you
Now I’ve got a daughter
She’s young and strong
When she needs them boots
She can put them boots on

Chorus

credits

from Finally Home, released December 13, 2007
Kathleen Dunbar: vocals
Gawain Mathews: guitar, banjo, mandola
Dan Feiszli: standup bass
Chad Manning: fiddle

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Kathleen Dunbar San Francisco, California

You may notice my songs are about angels and devils, birth, life, death, about creation and crumbling destruction—the troubles we humans get ourselves into and the choices we make—some of them funky, some of them ending in the dark, others rising into the light of morning. Touching, humorous, spellbinding storytelling—my songs brings you into the irony, the tragedy, and the possibilities of life. ... more

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