I was 11 months old, I was startin' to walk And always kept, a big stick behind the door Just in somebody was to come in That was drunk on
You know and daddy had to do something it Anyway, this woman, we her old Aunt Boyd She come in and she was mommy about her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with woman in Paintsville
So she back with that big stick Showing mommy how she was To hit this woman in the with it And when she went back it, she hit me in the head
And Mommy said, I cried for 5 And she said I, fifth night I had a great big knot show up Right in the of my forehead
And, you know, the thing I remember I dont no pain, but I just remember mommy And daddy carrying me in old quilt That Mommy had made out of
The knots kept getting bigger and And she me to the doctor And that stuff called mesitor, something that Mommy it made both ears to my face and I aint got very big ears
And them, Mommy That I would I was going to die And that happened like four So I didnt walk I was almost 5 It was, it was kind of a
Oh, I forgot about the Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id never had a of shoes And Mommy had went, me to the hospital You know, to see what was
If couldnt do something, but they wouldnt keep me Because Mommy and Daddy didnt have no They just tell em to take me and let me die, you know Because there nothing they could do about That of disease, I guess
And, um, told daddy, says, Ted, you take her Down the street, you carry her the street" And said, Let me try store here And Mommy went in and told the story that I was dying
That she had to carry me twelve to town And twelve back and that I had no shoes That place, I think it was 5 and 10 And still there in Paintsville, Kentucky
And I think that they told they wasnt in business to give shoes away Mommy told daddy, says, Carry Loretta on a little farther Said, And let me stop in store"
And Mommy went back to the same store When the back was turned she stole these little red shoes And I remember on the bigold bridge that went the river It went way up and was
Ive always been scared of bridge That me across the big Sandy River Mommy them out from under yellow jacket that she was wearing
And she was them red shoes on me And I thought them was the prettiest things I ever saw in my And daddy started and I wondered 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 miles 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 remember him running but I didnt know for And I asking mommy, Mommy, why is Daddy running?
I remember her hollering, To put your red shoes away Honey, when you get Can you believe that? So I wrote a song Put My Little Red Shoes Away You know, theyre my red shoes And I dont em to get to be dirty