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Jim Dixon	Lyr Req: We Got to Put Shoes on Willie (21)	Lyr Add: PUT YOUR SHOES ON WILLIE (Earl Hooker)	17 Oct 17
Transcribed by me from YouTube, where there is an image of the 45-rpm record label. PUT YOUR SHOES ON WILLIE As recorded by Earl Hooker on Checker #1025, 1962. [Verse] We gonna put the shoes on Willie. We gonna put the shoes on now. It take his uncle and his aunts To fit him in his pants. We gonna put the shoes on now. [Repeat verse] [Spoken]--Hey, ma! --What, pa? --Bring me a rope an' a gun. --For what, pa? --Oh, ma! --Here I'm a-bringin' it there. [Repeat verse] [Spoken] Hey Willie! Come on in this house, boy! An' stop twitchin' with that ... mule out there! An' sho! Don't run over grandpa's chicken! Yeah, it's gettin' a li'l bit too ... roun' here, Willie. I don't know what we gonna do witcha. We gon' put 'em on now! [Repeat verse] We gonna put the shoes on now. [Repeat and fade] [I sure wish people posting other versions would say where they got them!]

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