Bare Footin':Robert Parker.
#2 R&B charts, #24 in UK and #7 USA in 1966.
INTRO: C# F# (x2)
#1.
C# F#
Everybody get on your feet,
C# F#
you make me nervous when you in your seat,
C# F#
take off your shoes and pat your feet,
C# C#7
we're doin a dance that can't be beat.
CHORUS:
F# C#
We're barefootin', we're barefootin',
G# F# C# G#
we're barefootin', we're barefootin'.
#2.
C# F#
Went to a party the other night,
C# F#
Long Tall Sally was out of sight,
C# F#
threw away her wig, and her high sneakers too,
C# C#7
she was doin a dance without any shoes.
CHORUS:
F# C#
She was barefootin', she was barefootin',
G# F# C# G#
she was barefootin', she was barefootin'.
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#3.
C# F#
Hey, little gal with the red dress on,
C# F#
I bet you can barefoot all night long,
C# F#
take off your shoes and throw them away,
C# C#7
come back and get them another day.
CHORUS:
F# C#
We’re barefootin', we’re barefootin',
G# F# C# G#
we’re barefootin', we’re barefootin'.
(INTERLUDE:)
(Everybody get barefooted..take off your shoes!)
#4.
C# F#
Lil John Henry he said to Sue,
C# F#
if I was barefootin' would you barefoot, too?
C# F#
Sue told John, I'm thirty-two,
C# C#7
I was barefootin' ever since I was two.
CHORUS:
F# C#
There was barefootin', there was barefootin',
G# F# C# G#
there was barefootin', there was barefootin'.
OUTRO:
C#
We barefootin', we barefootin'.
(Ahh! Hahhh!)
C#
We barefootin', we barefootin', we barefootin',
(Don't have no shoes on!)
C#
We barefootin', we barefootin'. (Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
