The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163578   Message #3904373
Posted By: Jackaroodave
08-Feb-18 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: Hi-Heel Sneakers
Subject: RE: Hi-Heel Sneakers
"I'm posting lyrics from one of "those" Websites as a start, and we can edit in the additional verse once we put it together."

Joe, your source posts that version as the Buddy Guy version. It's quite different throughout from the youtube 4:04 version of the original performed by Tommy Tucker [Robert Higginbotham, the composer]--the one with the virtually unintelligible and never covered 3rd (and final) verse.

I don't know how that information would go into the database, but such a popular, hard-to-decipher, easy-to-improvise-on song must have a plethora of other added and altered verses (maybe some added and performed by Tucker himself)--the folk process with a vengeance. It's like trying to chase down a 1920s blues, but with a much ampler recording history.

(Thanks, keberoxu)