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BLACK THEM BOOTS Sung by: James Clifton Ferrell Recorded in Memphis, TN 6/30/63 Click here to listen to the original recording A goodbye and a goodbye. Black them boots and make them shine, Goodbye, Liza Jane. Oh, how I love her, It's a scandal and shame. Oh, how I love her, And it's goodbye, Liza Jane. Black them boots and make them shine, It's a goodbye and a goodbye. Black them boots to make them shine, And a goodbye, Liza Jane. (Comment by Mr. Ferrell: "We used to have a . . . At school, there was four of us that used to play them things, them play-party numbers and dance to it. And there was a whole bunch of them things that we would do, and I just . . . Every once in a while once of them runs across my mind. Now that's one, and I . . . I bet I haven't put that together in years like that.") Also found in Randolph, Vol. III, #550. |
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