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These Boots Are Made For Walking

Billy Ray Cyrus

RockMedium for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

G
C×
E
C#mDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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   G 
1. You keep saying, you got something for me, 
 
something you call love, but confess. 
C 
You've been a-messin' where you shouldn't have been a-messin' 
        G 
and now someone else is getting all your best. 
 
 
      E                  C#m         E                        C#m 
These boots are made for walking and that's just what they'll do 
    E                       C#m                           G 
and one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you. 
 
   G 
2. You keep lying when you oughta be true then 
 
and you keep loosing when you oughta not bet. 
C 
You keep singing when you oughta been changing, 
           G 
now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet. 
 
 
      E                  C#m         E                        C#m 
These boots are made for walking and that's just what they'll do 
    E                       C#m                           G 
and one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you. 
 
   G 
3. You keep playing where you shouldn't be playing 
 
and you keep thinking that you'll never get burnt, ha! 
C 
I just found me a brandnew box of matches, yeah, 
    G 
and what you know you ain't have time to learn. 
 
 
      E                  C#m         E                        C#m 
These boots are made for walking and that's just what they'll do 
    E                       C#m                           G 
and one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you. 
          
 

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Chord set

G · C · E · C#m

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.