I was 11 months old, I was just startin' to And daddy always kept, a big behind the door Just in case somebody was to in was drunk on moonshine
You and daddy had to do something about it Anyway, woman, we called her old Aunt Boyd She come in and she was mommy about her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with this 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 for 5 days And she said I, that fifth I had a big knot that show up Right in the middle of my
And, you know, the only thing I I dont no pain, but I just remember mommy And daddy carrying me in old quilt Mommy had made out of overhalls
The knots getting bigger and bigger And she me to the doctor And that stuff called mesitor, something like Mommy said it both ears Flat to my face and I got very big ears
And them, Mommy That I would that I was to die And that like four times So I walk till I was almost 5 It was, it was kind of a
Oh, I forgot the shoes Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id had a pair of shoes And Mommy had went, me to the hospital You know, to see what was
If they couldnt do something, but wouldnt keep me Because Mommy and Daddy didnt have no They tell em to take me home and let me die, you know there wasnt nothing they could do about That of disease, I guess
And, um, mommy told daddy, says, Ted, you her Down the street, you carry her the street" And said, Let me try this store And Mommy went in and told them the story that I was
That she had to carry me twelve miles to And miles back 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 they Mommy That wasnt in business to give shoes away Mommy told daddy, says, Carry Loretta on down a little Said, And let me stop in store"
And Mommy went right back to the same When the guys back was turned she stole little red shoes And I remember on the bridge that went across the river It went way up and was
Ive always been of that bridge That took me the big Sandy River pulled them out from under That jacket that she was wearing
And she was putting them red on me And I thought them was the prettiest things I ever saw in my And started crying and I wondered why And he said, Clerie, were not going to make it
And put the shoes on me and daddy took off running And run all the way ahead tButcher with me And Mommy never had a to carry me any farther And thats almost miles that daddy run with me
But daddy knew that the cops was to get us He left standing and he took off in a dead run I remember him running but I didnt know for And I remember asking mommy, Mommy, why is Daddy
I remember her hollering, To put little red shoes away Honey, when you get Can you believe that? So I wrote a song called Put My Little Red Shoes You know, theyre my red shoes And I dont want em to get to be