Snake Skin Shoes

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"Snake Skin Shoes"
Snake Skin Shoes by Black Sorrows.jpg
Single by The Black Sorrows
from the album Lucky Charm
ReleasedJuly 1994 (1994-07)
Genre Blues rock, reggae, pop rock
Length4:45
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Joe Camilleri, Jeff Griffin
Producer(s) Joe Camilleri, Kerryn Tolhurst
The Black Sorrows singles chronology
"Stir It Up"
(1993)
"Snake Skin Shoes"
(1994)
"Last One Standing for You"
(1994)

"Snake Skin Shoes" is a song by Australian blues and rock band The Black Sorrows. It was released as the first single from their eighth studio album Lucky Charm . The song became peaked at number 16 on the ARIA Charts in August 1994, the group's second top twenty single.

Contents

Track listing

CD single (Columbia – 660475 2)
  1. "Snake Skin Shoes"
  2. "When It All Comes Down"
  3. "Nobody Can Tell"
  4. "Down to the Sea"

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [1] 16
Germany (Official German Charts) [2] 84

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