I was 11 old, I was just startin' to walk And daddy kept, a big stick behind the door Just in case was to come in was drunk on moonshine
You know and daddy had to do about it Anyway, this woman, we her old Aunt Boyd She come in and she was telling about her Uh, husband, she is going out with this woman in Paintsville
So she reared back with that big Showing mommy how she was To hit this in the head with it And she went back with it, she hit me in the head
And Mommy said, I for 5 days And she said I, fifth night I had a great big that show up Right in the of my forehead
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 kept bigger and bigger And she me to the doctor And that called mesitor, something like that said it made both ears Flat to my face and I aint got big ears
And them, Mommy That I would that I was to die And happened like four times So I didnt walk till I was 5 It was, it was kind of a
Oh, I forgot the shoes Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id never had a pair of And Mommy had went, took me to the You know, to see what was
If they couldnt do something, but they keep me Mommy and Daddy didnt have no money They 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 Down the street, you carry her the street" And said, Let me try store here And Mommy went in and told them the that I was dying
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 still there in Paintsville, Kentucky
And I that they told Mommy That wasnt in business to give shoes away Mommy told daddy, says, Carry Loretta on down a farther Said, And let me stop in store"
And Mommy right back to the same store When the guys back was she stole these little red shoes And I remember on the bigold bridge went across the river It went way up and was
Ive always scared of that bridge That took me across the big Sandy pulled them out from under That yellow that she was wearing
And she was putting red shoes on me And I thought was the prettiest things I ever saw in my life And started crying and I wondered why And he said, Clerie, were not going to it home
And mommy put the shoes on me and daddy took off And run all the way ahead tButcher with me And Mommy never had a to carry me any farther And almost twelve miles that daddy run with me
But daddy that the cops was going to get us He left Mommy standing and he took off in a run I remember him running but I didnt know for And I remember mommy, Mommy, why is Daddy running?
I remember her hollering, To put your little red shoes Honey, when you get 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