{"id":156,"date":"2021-05-10T02:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=156"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:38:00","slug":"boot-scootin-boogie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/boot-scootin-boogie\/","title":{"rendered":"Boot Scootin&#8217; Boogie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nBrooks and Dunn<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>by Ronnie Dunn &#8211;\u00a0 Key of A\u00a0 &#8211; <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea489c0885a6049215244' value='69ea489c0885a6049215244'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea489c0885a6049215244' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea489c0885a6049215244' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea489c0885a6049215244' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea489c0885a6049215244' ><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Before he teamed up with Kix Brooks to form Brooks &amp; Dunn, Ronnie Dunn wrote this for the country music group Asleep At The Wheel, who released it on their 1990 album Keepin&#8217; Me Up Nights. Brooks &amp; Dunn released it in 1991 on their debut album Brand New Man, helping them make a huge impact on the New Country scene of the early &#8217;90s.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This song is known for its signature line dance, which was very popular in country bars. The song is about a hard-working guy who likes to go to his favorite honky-tonk bar to unwind and dance, so the song was a natural fit. The line dance originated when a choreographer named Bill Bader noticed the title &#8220;Boot Scootin&#8217; Boogie&#8221; on the Asleep At The Wheel album and thought it might make a good dance. He came up with the choreography and started teaching the line dance in Vancouver, where it was also known as the &#8220;Vancouver Boogie.&#8221; The dance spread to the States, and this became a favorite as line dancing took off. Even bars that didn&#8217;t specialize in country music began offering line dancing lessons, and this was one of the top dances.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"> G C D<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[G] Out in the country, Past the city limits sign, Well there&#8217;s a honky tonk bar near the county line.\u00a0 &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 The [C] joint starts jumpin&#8217; every night when the sun goes [G] down.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>They got [D] whiskey, women, music, and smoke.\u00a0 It&#8217;s where all the cowboy folk go to [C]\u00a0 boot scootin&#8217; [G] boogie.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[G] I&#8217;ve got a good job.\u00a0 I work hard for my money.\u00a0 When it&#8217;s quittin&#8217; time I hit the door runnin&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; I [C] fire up my pickup truck, and let the horses [G] run.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>I go [D] flyin&#8217; down the highway, to that hideaway . . . <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Stuck out in the woods &#8211; To do the [C] boot scootin [G] boogie<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Yeah [C]\u00a0 heel toe do si do &#8211; <\/strong><strong>Come on baby let&#8217;s go boot [G] scootin&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh [C] cadillac blackjack baby meet me out back.\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>We&#8217;re gonna [G] boogie.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong> \u00a0\u00a0 Oh, [D] get down, turn around, go to town &#8211; [C] <\/strong><strong>Boot scootin&#8217; [G] boogie<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>The [G] bartender asks me says son what&#8217;ll it be?\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>I want a shot at that redhead yonder lookin&#8217; at me<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>The [C] dance floors hoppin&#8217;<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 and it&#8217;s hotter than the fourth of [G] July<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>I see [D] outlaws, inlaws crooks and straights, <\/strong><strong>all out makin&#8217; it shake &#8211; &#8211; <\/strong><strong>Doin&#8217; the [C] boot scootin&#8217; [G] boogie<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Oh, [D] get down, turn around, go to town &#8211; [C] Boot scootin&#8217; [G] boogie<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Oh, [D] get down, turn around, go to town &#8211; [C] <\/strong><strong>Boot scootin&#8217; [G] boogie<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooks and Dunn by Ronnie Dunn &#8211;\u00a0 Key of A\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0 G C D [G] Out in the country, Past the city limits sign, Well there&#8217;s a honky tonk bar near the county line.\u00a0 &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 The [C] joint starts jumpin&#8217; every night when the sun goes [G] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/boot-scootin-boogie\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boot Scootin&#8217; Boogie<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,24,120,133,126,265,56,116,117,115,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-filter","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27415,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/27415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}