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Pink Shoe Laces

Artist: Alma Cogan

Album: The Ultimate Latin Album

Song Length: 2:34

George's Thoughts: A terrific old-style Jive song by the woman with the smiling voice. The lyrics are lots of fun, along the same styling as "Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" or "Purple People Eater." The original by Dodie Stevens was Billlboard's number 3 hit in 1959.

Song Lyrics:

Tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh man
Tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

Now I've got a guy and his name is Dooley
He's my guy and I love him truly
He's not good lookin', heaven knows
But I'm wild about his crazy clothes

[Chorus:]
He's got tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh man
Tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

He takes me deep-sea fishing in a submarine
We got to drive-in movies in a limousine
He's got a whirly-birdy and a 12-foot yacht
Ah, but thats-a not all he's got

[Chorus]

Now Dooley had a feelin' we were goin' to war
So he went out and enlisted in a fightin' corps
But he landed in the brig for raisin' such a storm
When they tried to put 'em in a uniform

He wanted tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh, man
He wanted tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

Now one day Dooley started feelin' sick
And he decided that he better make his will out quick
He said

"Just before the angels come to carry me
I want it down in writin' how to bury me."

A'wearin tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot vest and man, oh, man
Give me tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band

ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

And a big Panama with a purple hat band!!