"Walking the Floor Over You" is a country music song written by Ernest Tubb, recorded on April 26, 1941 in Fort Worth, Texas,[1] and released in the United States that year.
[2] The original single became a hit, reaching the number-23 spot[3] in the charts in 1941 but eventually the song sold over a million copies.
Critic David Vinopal called "Walking the Floor Over You" the first honky tonk song that launched the musical genre itself.
[6] In 2022, the single was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
[7] Ernest Tubb himself re-recorded the song several times during his career, with those versions recorded in 1944, 1959, 1963, and 1977.