These Old Boots - Acoustic Version

Everything was recorded live off the floor except the harmony vocal track, which was added a couple of weeks later.

Margaret Bibb – lyrics, songwriting, vocals
Robbie Robinson – guitar
Kevin Craig – recording, bass, mixing

These Old Boots
by Margaret Bibb

Chorus
These old boots can tell so many stories
In the scuff marks and the stains they’ve come to own
No matter what I’m walking through,
they’ve held me up and seen me through
The good times and the hard ones, too
And brought me safely home.

Verse
This one has a stain that happened on the New York subway train
When we were traveling back from seeing your friend in her show.
You said you needed something more, you missed the life you had before
And left me there to wonder where the plans and dreams all go.

Chorus

Verse
That scarred heel happened walking down the avenue in Birmingham
The night you told me you had something else you had to do
I waited hours and held your space in line at that amazing place
While you were playing all your games and tricks for someone new

Chorus

Verse
Just like an old friend they’ve gotten softer and more broken in
And every scar or blemish only adds to their appeal.
When all the world seems upside down, and certainty is not around,
I look down at the ground and find a piece of something real.

Chorus