LYRICS

Folks don’t shine they shoes no more, yeah
folks don’t shine their shoes
y’all still shave and cut yo hair
‘cept not like they used

I ain’t no cobbler
button spats faster’n you
I ain’t no troubler
jus’ singin’ my shiny blues

folks wear today they patent shoe
two-tone brass toe caps
can’t no more be like what it used
a dime for spit on dancing taps

I’m done with casting back, forlorn
we must, with progress, future plough
but I can’t see the science in the corn
comes that ol’ train but monthly now

gonna move on and be glad
soon as I can shed a tear
Lord we done a sin so bad
for to bring the patent here

Recommended by: rocavaco, KungFu (KungFuFrijters), Speck

"Patent leather blues"
by economix

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