Walk this way talk this way aerosmith lyrics Continue Backstroke lover always hid on the cover Yet I spoke to his father he said he said you didn't see noting up to you in a muffin So you'll definitely be a-changin your ways I met a cheerleader, it was a real young bleeding Every time I can remain cause the best thing lovin With your sister and her cousin Just started with a little kiss So! See-saw swingin with the boys at school And their feet flying up in the air Singin hey diddle-diddle with the kitten in the middle You be swingin as you just didn't care So I had a great chance at the high school prom With a missy who was ready to play Was I she was silly because she knew what she was doing and I know love was here to stay when she told me to walk this way, walk around here, walk around here, walk around here, walk around here, walk around here, walk around here Ah, just give me a kiss - so! Sadie school girl with the kind of sassy class little skirt going up to her knees There were three young ladies in the school gym closet when I noticed they were looking at me I was a high school loser Never did that to a lady Until the boys told me something I missed so my neighbor with a daughter had a favor so I gave her just a little kiss So! See-saw swingin with the boys at school And their feet flying up in the air Singin hey diddle-diddle with the kitten in the middle You be swingin as you just didn't care So I acted a lot at the high school dance With a missy who was ready to play Was I she was silly because she knew what she was doing when she told me how to walk this way she told me to walk this way , talk like that Walk around here, walk around here, walk around here, talk so just give me a kiss - so! 1975 single from Aerosmith For other uses, see Walk This Way (deambiguation). Walk This Way Single from the album Toys in the AtticB-side Round and Round[1] Uncle Salty (re-release) Released on August 28, 1975 (1975-08-28) (original) November 5, 1976 (re-release) Recorded January-February 1975StudioRecord Plant, New York CityGenre Hard rock[2][3] funk rock[4] Length3:40LabelColumbiaSongwriter(s) Steven Tyler Joe Perry Producer(s)Jack DouglasAerosmith singles timeline Sweet Emotion (1975) Walk This Way (1975) Walk This Way (1975) Walk This Way ( 1975) Walk This Way (1975) Walk This Way (1975) Walk This Way (1975) Walk This Way (1975) Walk This Way (1975) 1975) Walk This Way (1975) Walk This Way (1975) Walk This Way (1975) You See Me Crying (1975) Aerosmith relaunches chronology singles Home Tonight (1976) Walk This Way (1976) Back in the Video Clip Walk This Way (audio) on YouTube Walk This Way AerosmithWalk This Way from Toys in the Attic Problems by playing this file? See the media's help. Walk This Way is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, the song was originally released as the second single from the album Toys in the Attic (1975). It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a number of successful hits for the band in the 1970s. In addition to being one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s, it also helped revitalize her career in the 1980s[5] when she was covered by hip hop group Run-D.M.C. on his 1986 album Raising Hell. This cover was a touchstone for the new musical subgenre of rap rock, or the fusion of rock and hip hop. It became an international success and won both groups a Soul Train Music Award for best rap single at the 1987 Soul Train Music Awards. Production Music The song begins with an introduction of two beats drum measurements by Joey Kramer, followed by a guitar riff composed by Joe Perry. The song continues with the main riff, with Perry and Brad Whitford on guitar with Tom Hamilton on bass. The song continues with quick- fire lyrics from Steven Tyler. Lyrics In December 1974, Aerosmith opened for The Guess Who in Honolulu. During the sound check, guitarist Joe Perry was playing with riffs and thinking about The Meters, a guitarist for the group that Jeff Beck had excited him. Loving his New Orleans funk, especially 'Cissy Strut' and 'People Say', he asked the drummer to put something flat with a groove on the drums. The guitar riff of what would become Walk This Way just came out [of his] hands. [7] Needing a bridge, he played another riff and went there. But I didn't want the song to have a typical, boring progression of 1, 4, 5 chords. After playing the first riff on c's key, I switched to E before returning to C for verse and chorus. At the end of the sound check, I had the basics of a song. When bandmate Steven Tyler heard Perry playing that riff, he ran out and sat behind the drums and [they] played. Tyler scatted meaningless words initially to feel where the letters should go before adding them later. When the group was halfway through the recording of Toys in the Attic in early 1975 at the Record Plant in New York, they found themselves arrested for material. They had written three or four songs for the album, having to write the rest in the studio. They decided to give Perry a chance at music in Hawaii, but it still had no lyrics or title. Deciding to take a break from recording, band members and producer Jack [Douglas] went to Times Square to see Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Returning to the studio, they were laughing about Marty Feldman telling Gene Wilder to follow him in the film, saying walk around here and limping around. [8] Douglas suggested this as a title for his song. [9] But they still needed lyrics. At the hotel that night Tyler wrote lyrics for the song, but left them in the cab on the way to the studio the next morning. He says, I must have been stoned. All the blood flowed from my face, but no one believed me. They thought I never came to Upset, he picked up a tape with the instrumental track we had recorded and a one tape player with headphones and disappeared into the stairwell. He took some number two pencils, but forgot to pick up paper. He wrote the letter on the upstairs wall of the Record Factory and then went down some stairs from the back stairs. After two or three hours he ran down to a cool block and ran back up and copied them down. Perry thought the lyrics were so big, saying that Tyler, being a drummer, likes to use the words as a percussion element. He says: Words have to tell a story, but for Steven they also have to have a bouncy feel to the flow. So he looks for words that have a double meaning, that comes out of the tradition of blues. Perry always liked to wait until Tyler recorded his vocals so he could weave around his vocal attack, but Tyler wanted Perry to record first for the same reason. After a tug of war, Tyler's vocals were first recorded with Perry's guitar track overdoitized. [7] The lyrics, which tell the story of a high school boy losing his virginity, are sung very quickly by Tyler, with great emphasis being placed on the rhymed lyrics (for example, so I got a lot of weight at the high school dance). Among the elaborately detailed verses, the chorus consists primarily of a repetition of Walk around here, talk like that. Live in concert, Tyler usually has the audience, combined with the band members, singing talk this way. There is also a long guitar solo at the end of the song, and in concert, Tyler will often harmonize his voice to mimic the sounds of the guitar. Charts Chart (1976-77) Peakposition Australia (Kent Music Report) 85 Canadian RPM Top Singles[10] 7 US Billboard Hot 100[11] 10 US Cash Box Top 100[12] 7 Chart (1977) Rank Canada [13] 77 US Hot 100[14] 90 US Cash Box [1977) Rank Canada [13] 77 US Hot 100[14] 90 US Cash Box [1977) Rank Canada [13] 77 US Hot 100[14] 90 US Cash Box [1977) Rank Canada [13] 77 US Hot 100[14] 90 US Cash Box [1977) Rank Canada [13] 77 US Hot 100[14] 90 US Cash Box [1977) Rank Canada [13] 77 US Hot 100[14] 90 US Cash Box [1977) Rank Canada [13] 77 US Hot 100[14] 90 US Cash Box [1977) 15] 72 Region CertificationS Certified Units/UK Sales Units (BPI)[16] Silver 200,000 sales+streaming figures based only on legacy walk this way certification was one of two successful singles of the band to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1970s, the other being a re-release of Dream On. Walk This Way, however, helped Toys in the Attic to be Aerosmith's best-selling album, and one of the most critically acclaimed. Aerosmith's version of Walk This Way often competes with Sweet Emotion and Dream On for the title of Aerosmith's signature song, being one of the band's most important, influential and recognizable songs.