I was 11 old, I was just startin' to walk And daddy always kept, a big stick the door Just in somebody 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 mommy about her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with woman in Paintsville
So she reared back with that big mommy how she was going To hit woman in the head with it And she went back with it, she hit me in the head
And said, I cried for 5 days And she said I, that night I had a great big knot that 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 this old That had made out of overhalls
The knots kept getting bigger and And she me to the doctor And that called mesitor, something like that Mommy said it both ears Flat to my and I aint got very big ears
And them, told That I would I was going to die And that like four times So I didnt till I was almost 5 It was, it was of a mess
Oh, I forgot the shoes Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id had a pair of shoes And Mommy had went, took me to the You know, to see what was
If they couldnt do something, but they wouldnt me Because and Daddy didnt have no money just tell em to take me home and let me die, you know Because there nothing they could do about kind of disease, I guess
And, um, mommy told daddy, says, Ted, you her the street, you carry her down the street" And said, Let me try this store And went in and told them the story that I was dying
That she had to me twelve miles to town And twelve miles and that I had no shoes That place, I it was Murphys 5 and 10 And theyre still there in Paintsville,
And I that they told Mommy That they wasnt in business to shoes away told daddy, says, Carry Loretta on down a little farther Said, And let me stop in store"
And Mommy went right back to the store When the guys was turned she stole these little red shoes And I on the bigold bridge that went across the river It went way up and was
Ive been scared of that bridge 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 things I ever saw in my And daddy started and I wondered why And he said, Clerie, were not going to it home
And mommy put the on me and daddy took 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 Mommy 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 running?
I remember her hollering, To put your little red away Honey, you get home Can you believe that? So I wrote a called Put My Little Red Shoes Away You know, theyre my little red And I want em to get to be dirty