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The song is a dialogue between lovers where the woman is going away - supposedly temporarily. She keeps asking the man if there is some gift he would like her to bring back for him. He eventually sees through her insistence on the matter as a cover for facing the truth about how she is really feeling - that is, she will return but she is leaving him for good. When he realises this at the end of the song his request for Boots of Spanish Leather is like a philosohical shrug - well I have lost you but I'll have the gift anyway.
Hope this helps.
Thanks, Anon!
I feel he made a wise choice.
MrP
I think the 'boots' represent wandering and adventures. Which the which the sang to will need to forget the lady. The spanish in the days of 'sailin' the 'main' (and in Caesar's day) had a reputation of adventures that were ill suited for the mundane toils of day to day life.
Poetics aside. Spanish leather is very very nice leather. The Spanish like it thick, soft and yet firm. They (both the spanish and spanish leather) make excellent boots. I have a pair and love them.
Hello,
My interpretation is that he`s asking her is she staying with him or she giving him the boot, literally ! Spanish leather is the softest in the world, will he have her soft skin against him or will he need a pair of spanish boots for walking ?? poetic eh !!
well buddy, ive come to realize that the boots symbolize the man accepting the end of the relationship. She offerd to bring him possesions, everytime she asked him he would want her over anything. He then realized that she was not going to come back so the boots are basicaly his way of acknowleding the end of it all because he accepts the gift. as for the literal physicality of the boots im not too sure.