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The song was written by the band's guitarist Jack Lee. The list of explanations goes on. At Christmas and Halloween, on Easter and the 4th of July, many of us feel compelled to doll up houses, windows, and lawns with all manner of objects and lights. Others will tell you it has to do with the human need for self-expression.Slinging shoes over a power line could be no more than us letting that side of ourselves run riot.
Learn more. Driving along, one passes upturned boot after upturned boot. You rely on Snopes, and we rely on you. The boots are often painted yellow or orange prior to being festooned over a wire.There’s no one definitive answer as to why those shoes hang from telephone wires. Jack & Diane started off as an interracial couple; Mellencamp took race references out of the song at the request of his record company.The first line of "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" is "It was the 3rd of September," which is the day lead singer Dennis Edwards' father died.Jimmy Webb was inspired to write "Up-Up and Away" by a balloon that his friend William F. Williams flew on promotions for radio station KMEN.The motto for Boys Town, which was a Nebraska home for troubled youth, inspired the song "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" by The Hollies.Chuck Berry's only #1 hit was "My Ding-a-Ling," a novelty song about a boy and his... you know.Billy Idol's "Eyes Without A Face" is based on a 1959 French movie about a surgeon who abducts young women and removes their facial features.Shaun breaks down the Seether songs, including the one about his brother, the one about Ozzy, and the one that may or may not be about his ex-girlfriend Amy Lee. Then again, the whole thing could be merely an invented tradition, with people doing it because they see others doing it.Jones, Rebecca. Although this was a big hit for Blondie in 1978, it was actually first recorded by The Nerves, who released it on their one and only EP, in 1976 - making them a no-hit wonder? When the toe is pointing towards the house, he’s telling the world he’s home. Others say it’s just a boot-on-a-fencepost thing with no more rhyme or reason to it than there is to those sneakers hanging over telephone wires. The upset person on the line would slam the phone down so hard, it echoed their displeasure with the call they were disconnecting from. Theories as to what these shoes signify abound, but, contrary to what one hears, there’s no one right answer.Who put the shoes there and why? "Great songwriters don't necessarily have hit songs," says Chris.