These Boots Are Made For Walking Chords & Guitar Lesson

Welcome to my These Boots Are Made For Walking chords and guitar lesson by Nancy Sinatra. This song has a fun little intro that you can play along to as well as a really cool strumming groove.

The song features a mixture of open chords and 7 chords, but it's you're not great with 7 chords yet, you can also play the regular open chords and it will work just fine.

Let's take a look!

These Boots Are Made For Walking Guitar Chords:

These Boots Are Made For Walking Strumming Patterns:

Strumming Pattern Verse:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D   DU D    DU

Strumming Pattern Chorus:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D   DU    U DU

Intro Walkdown on the A String:
A|-12-12-11-11-10-10-9-9-8-8-7-7-6-6-5-5-|

These Boots Are Made For Walking Guitar Lesson:

At this time, this song page does not have a guitar lesson video to go with it. Check back at a later date!

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These Boots Are Made For Walking Chord Chart:

INTRO:
E E E E E E E E

VERSE:
E                               E                                       E             E
You keep sayin', you've got somethin' for me,
E                                     E                        E           E
Somethin' you call love, but confess
A                                                A                                                                 A            A
You've been a-messin' where you shouldn't have been a-messin',
                      E                               E                          E              E
And now someone else is gettin' all your best

CHORUS:
                G                                      E
These boots are made for walkin'
            G                                         E
And that's just what they'll do,
G                                                  E (strum & mute)                        E
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

INTERLUDE:
E E E
E       E  E E
Yeah

VERSE:
E7                           E7                                      E7             E7
You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin',
           E7                            E7                                    E7        E7
And you keep losin' when you oughta not bet
A7                                 A7                                                A7            A7
You keep samein' when you ought to be a-changin',
                           E7                           E7                                   E7          E7
Now what's right is right but you ain't been right yet

CHORUS:
                G                                      E
These boots are made for walkin'
            G                                         E
And that's just what they'll do,
G                                                  E (strum & mute)                        E
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

INTERLUDE:
E E E      E E E E

VERSE:
E7                               E7                                             E7       E7
You keep playin' where you shouldn't be playin',
           E7                               E7                                   E7           E7
And you keep thinkin' that you'll never get burned, ha!
A7                                  A7                              A7               A7
I just found me a brand new box of matches, yeah
             E7                                  E7                            E7         E7
And what he knows you ain't had time to learn

CHORUS:
                G                                      E
These boots are made for walkin'
            G                                         E
And that's just what they'll do,
G                                                  E (strum & mute)                        E
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

OUTRO:
E E E
E E                                           E E                            (Strum E out)
Are you ready boots? ... Start walkin'

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