A Fact About Sneakers

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A Fact About Sneakers
St cecilia cover.jpg
Artist Stalk-Forrest Group
Album St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings
Released April 23, 2001 (Stalk-Forrest Group, Oaxaca)
June 26, 2001 (Soft White Underbelly)
Length 7:53 (Stalk-Forrest Group)
3:10 (Oaxaca)
2:50 (Soft White Underbelly)
Writers Richard Meltzer
Albert Bouchard
Lead vocals Eric Bloom

A Fact About Sneakers is a song by Stalk-Forrest Group, released on the compilation album St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings. Two versions of this song are present on the album, the first recorded as Stalk-Forrest Group for Elektra Records in 1970 and the second recorded as Oaxaca for Columbia Records in 1969. A demo version of this song, recorded as Soft White Underbelly for an earlier session with Columbia Records, was released on the 2001 reissue of Blue Öyster Cult.

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

Hey-hey-hey, there's just a DJ
Engineer, with no say
Why, that's all there is, oh why?
'Cause with a shoe shine boy in the radio booth
Get shoe shine, hey-hey-hey
While you hear Spooky Tooth

Well, if he's in there too
That's not hard to do
That's not hard to do
That's not hard to do
That's not hard to

Day by day, there's no hay
Shining shoes the old way
Polish made of oily stud pie
But with a shoe shine girl in a shoe shining kit
Get shoe shine, hey-hey, man
While you're watching some tit

Well, if he gets the chance
Guy might shine your pants
He will shine your pants
Guy might shine your pants
Jack will shine your

Pants above the knee are knickers
Many worn by football kickers
Accompanied by pairs of sneakers
Nil from any standpoint of the shoe shine boy

Trivia[edit | edit source]

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