I was 11 old, I was just startin' to walk And daddy always kept, a big behind the door Just in case was to come in That was on moonshine
You know and daddy had to do something it Anyway, this woman, we her old Aunt Boyd She come in and she was telling mommy her Uh, husband, she is going out with this woman in Paintsville
So she reared back with big stick mommy how she was going To hit woman in the head with it And when she back with it, she hit me in the head
And Mommy said, I cried for 5 And she said I, that fifth I had a great big knot that up in the middle of my forehead
And, you know, the thing I remember I dont remember no pain, but I just mommy And daddy carrying me in old quilt That had made out of overhalls
The knots kept getting bigger and And she me to the doctor And that stuff called mesitor, something like Mommy it made both ears Flat to my face and I aint got very big
And them, Mommy That I would I was going to die And that like four times So I didnt walk till I was 5 It was, it was kind of a
Oh, I forgot about the Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id had a pair of shoes And Mommy had went, took me to the You know, to see that was
If they couldnt do something, but they wouldnt me Because Mommy and didnt have no money just tell em to take me home and let me die, you know Because there wasnt they could do about That of disease, I guess
And, um, mommy daddy, says, Ted, you take her the street, you carry her down the street" And said, Let me try store here And Mommy went in and them the story that I was dying
That she had to carry me twelve to town And twelve miles and that I had no shoes That place, I think it was 5 and 10 And theyre still in Paintsville, Kentucky
And I think that told Mommy That they wasnt in business to give away Mommy told daddy, says, Loretta on down a little farther Said, And let me in another store"
And Mommy went back to the same store When the guys back was turned she stole these red shoes And I remember on the bigold that went across the river It went way up and was
Ive always been scared of that That me across the big Sandy River Mommy pulled them out from That yellow jacket she was wearing
And she was them red shoes on me And I thought them was the prettiest I ever saw in my life And daddy started crying and I why And he said, Clerie, were not to make it home
And mommy put the shoes on me and daddy off running And run all the way ahead tButcher with me And Mommy never had a chance to me any farther And thats almost twelve that daddy run with me
But daddy knew that the was going to get us He left Mommy and he took off in a dead run I him running but I didnt know what for And I remember asking mommy, Mommy, why is running?
I remember her hollering, To put your little red away Honey, when you get home Can you believe So I wrote a song Put My Little Red Shoes Away You know, my little red shoes And I want em to get to be dirty