Alligator Shoes

Fun blues about shoes for me and you.

Alligator Shoes

Lost my job nigh a week ago

Wife gone money gone flat broke

Boys said Looziana’s where you go

Make you some money fo’ sho’

Said don’t lay here getting the blues

Gas up your tank and take a cruise

What the hell you got to lose

They payin big money for alligator shoes

Been down here less n a week

Saw a big gator comin out of a creek

Stopped the car ran a blue streak

Jumped on the gator before he could breathe

Don’t lay here getting the blues

Gas up your tank and take a cruise

What the hell you got to lose

They payin big money for alligator shoes

Wrestled that gator til I was black and blue

Turned the monster over and got a clue

What I saw gave me back the blues

Gators down here don’t wear no shoes

Gonna lay here getting the blues

Gas tank empty nowhere to cruise

What the hell I got to lose

Gators down here don’t wear no shoes

LOL - What a fun write Tracy. Had me chuckling Hope you going to set this to music

it should be really foot stomping stuff

I was beyone chuckling. I was laughing out loud! Rolling on the floor laughing and whatever else you can abbreviate these days! This is a great write.

Great write, Tracy!  Love the story line and the way you delivered it!  Love the title (hook) and the way you used it in context of the storyline. Just one minor suggestion, though -  

The word "nigh" in your first line of the song is a bit "dated" - I think it sounds too "poetic".  How about changing it to "about" (you could even use "'bout" to shorten it up: 

Lost my job 'bout a week ago....

this is a good story but could be a lot better told .

lost my job a week ago

wife left and i'm flat broke

and my friends said to me

don't sit there singing  the blues

tank up the car go on a cruise

looeseana'e the place you need  to be

alligators shoes are selling

two thousand bucks a pair

man we are telling

you to get down there

and we swear it's trooooo

alligator shoes

PO

Hi guys!  Thanks for all the comments.  This was loosely based on a joke I heard when I was a kid.  I used to watch Justin Wilson the Cajun cook.  And in one episode, he told this joke.  Suprisingly I found a version of it on youtube.

Here's the link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol1IPbCElcg