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As "What Kind Of Shoes You Gwine To Wear", the song was recorded in the late 1920s with a considerably different up-tempo melody and playful arrangement by
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Although there are variations between existing recordings, subsequent stanzas involve a "long white robe" (as in "Oh, Dem Golden
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Golden slippers I’m bound to wear, / To outshine the glittering sun. / Oh, yes, yes, yes my Lord, / I’m going to join the
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Over the first half of the twentieth century, various recordings of the song as "Golden
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answer before joining with them. (An example: "I'm goin' to wear my old work shoes!" to "What kind of shoes you gwine to wear, golden shoes".)
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A performance of this latter arrangement appeared on the 1973 folk album "Lonesome Robin" by Bob
Coltman, as "What Kind of Shoes".
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What kind of shoes you goin’ to wear? / Golden slippers! / What kind of shoes you goin’ to wear? / Golden slippers!
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