HI-HEEL SNEAKERS - Tommy Tucker (Rare Track)

Jammin' along to my all-time favourite R 'n B song (note the additional verse)...anyone know the 3rd verse lyrics?

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• Blues;
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• 60's;
• 12
• bar
• blues;
• 1964
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[delomusicomb]

I got my 'ol corn liquor and my paycheck in my hand, Big John's bootlegged whiskey cost much more than I can stand....

[Lowdenjim]

Thanks very much - got the lyrics; just need to learn how to play it properly now!

[Twodawgzz]

BIG JOHN'S BOOTLEG WHISKEY!!! (A friend just emailed me after listening).

[Lowdenjim]

Brilliant! - "Big John's bootleg" sounds right, but I don't hear "Whiskey". Could it be "Big John's bootleg baby, costs much more than I can stand.........???" - I can't hear what he sings after "stand"

Thanks also for "Old Crow liquor" - I've been singing "Home-grown liquor".

[raffaport]

Great sounds and a great show! So this is what young Yorkshire boys get up to when they've been sent to their bedrooms in disgrace! Hairbrush just off camera, eh? ... Thumbs and regards.

[Lowdenjim]

Hairbrush! (I wish)....not so much combed or brushed these days as "arranged" (or covered)

[WDeadMansRadio]

@delomusicomb I'm not trying to make an argument here, after all this info is just from wiki. but here is a quote from wiki's "Old Crow Whiskey" page:

"Old Crow is also mentioned in the original recording of the R&B song "Hi-Heel Sneakers", by Tommy Tucker, in a third verse which was edited out of the released version: "I've got my Old Crow liquor / And my paycheck in my hand / Because Big John's bootleg whiskey / Cost much more than I can stand."

2 cents

[suzie6366]

@Lowdenjim  I think thats 'ol Corn Liqour!!

[Twodawgzz]

What a fantastic find!!! Who knew there was a 4 minute original version of Hi-Heeled Sneakers by Tommy Tucker (Robert Higgenbotham)? You've probably already deciphered as much of the new verse as I could:

"You've got my Old Crow liquor and my paycheck in my hand

I got my Old Crow liquor I got my paycheck in my hand

Big John's ??? costs much more than I can stand"

[Lowdenjim]

..... rhymes with "Tommy Tucker" (suggestions on a postcard please)

[Lowdenjim]

It was on a freebie "MAXIM" cassette called "BAD BOY BLUES" given free with a guitar magazine. If you pick up the full lyrics to that 3rd verse let me know; I've always fudged it with my own line as I can't decipher the words!