From the recording Muddy Shoes / Blue Highway / MP320
Muddy Shoes
Shawn Lane / Gerald Ellenburg
Cat Town Music, Wadakoe Publishing/BMI
Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Professor Dan Boner
Recorded at the ETSU Recording Laboratory, Johnson City, TN
Release date: 11/19/2025 (may change)
Catalog #DTR0021
UPC: 634457240834
ISRC: QZR8K2561002
Shawn Lane - mandolin - Lead Vocal
Tim Stafford - guitar
Gary Hultman - Dobro - Tenor vocal
Jason Burleson- banjo
Wayne Taylor - bass
Marketing blurb:
“Muddy Shoes” is a classic string band tune that expresses deep gratitude for the hard work and sacrifice of our forebears. In the words of co-writer Shawn Lane, “What we are blessed with didn’t come for free. It was built by a lot of blood, sweat, and tears from the generations of souls before us.”
Lyrics
Well the Lord put it in the scrolls
gonna reap just what you sow
if you’re gonna reap got to sow it deep
and you’re gonna have muddy souls
Chorus:
put on my muddy shoes
put on my muddy shoes
gotta work today
got souls to pay
put on my muddy shoes
Pray for a rainy day
to make you a bunch of hay
Try to keep your shoes
lookin like brand new but the rain has another say
the road we travel on didn’t pop up on its own
it was made with mud, sweat and blood
and they had their muddy shoes on