Colorado Sandstorm Music Song Lyrics: Red Shoes

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Colorado Sandstorm Music

Red Shoes

Colorado Sandstorm Music, B.M.I.

1.	Justino plays for tourists, right outside a noisy bar
	Hear the heartbeat of his fingers on the strings of his guitar
	And from his lower lip, hangs a pencil-thin cigar
	But his eyes move when he watches Dorothea

2.	Dorothea walks the shabby streets, her eyes always cast down
	Nimble fingers snatch up any lost coins on the ground
	Magician-like she stashes the treasure she has found
	She stops and stares at Red Shoes in a window

3.	One cold and dreary Tuesday, when the sky hung like a rag
	Dorothea sidled up the street, clutching a tattered bag
	She ducked inside a shoe store with her dreams on a price tag
	And walked out in triumphant new Red Shoes

chorus	(Oh) those Red Shoes, those magic Red Shoes
	In them she was pretty; in them she could dance
	Justino's music moved her, took her by the hand
	And romanced her when she wore Red Shoes

4.	Justino plays his street guitar, but his fingers, they move slow
	The run-down streets of the old town aren't where the tourists go
	And love, it is a mystery that he will never know
	But his eyes move when he watches Dorothea

5.	Dorothea's hair is silver now; the urchins call her "crone"
	Locked up in her old maid's room, she spends her nights alone
	And the scuffed and broken Red Shoes? They will never take her home
	Not even if she clicks her heels three times

chorus	(But) ...

coda	Justino's music moved her, took her by the hand
	And romanced her when she wore Red Shoes
	Romanced her, when she, she wore Red Shoes

"Christy Wessler and I co-taught a songwriting class, Hook, Rhyme and Singer, in the summer of 2008. The assignment for the class was to write a song using a two-word phrase from the first exercise and a picture on the class room wall. I decided to do the assignment along with the class. My two words were 'Red Shoes' and the picture I chose was 'El Guitarista' by Justin Bua."
— San