Blue Suede Shoes

Words and Music by Carl Lee Perkins



 
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step on my blue suede shoes. You can








  

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do an - y - thing, but lay off of my blue suede shoes.

                 
          
             

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1. Well, you can knock me down, step in my face,

      
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slan - der my name all o - ver the place, and do an - y - thing that you


      


    


    


  
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wan - na do, but uh - uh, hon - ey, lay off of my shoes, and don’t


      


  

    

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you step on my blue suede shoes. You can

         

 





 
 











            
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do an - y - thing, but lay off of my blue suede shoes.






















    

            
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one for the mon - ey, two for the show, three to get read - y, now


 
   
    

 
  
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Well, it’s blue, blue, blue suede shoes,

      


     
         
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blue, blue, blue suede shoes, yeah, blue, blue,

     
         
         
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blue suede shoes, ba - by, blue, blue, blue suede shoes. You can

     

           
             
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do an - y - thing but lay off of my blue suede

          
          

           

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Additional Lyrics
2. Well, you can burn my house, steal my car,
Drink my liquor from an old fruit jar,
And do anything that you wanna do,
But uh-uh, honey, lay off of them shoes,
And don’t you ...
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