I was 11 months old, I was just to walk And always kept, a big stick behind the door Just in somebody was to come in That was 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 mommy about her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with woman in Paintsville
So she reared with that big stick mommy how she was going To hit woman in the head with it And when she went back 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 knot that up Right in the middle of my
And, you know, the only I remember I dont remember no pain, but I just remember And daddy me in this 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, like that Mommy it made both ears Flat to my and I aint got very big ears
And them, told That I would that I was to die And happened like four times So I didnt walk I was almost 5 It was, it was of a mess
Oh, I about the shoes Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id never had a of shoes And Mommy had went, took me to the You know, to see what was
If they couldnt do something, but they keep me Because and Daddy didnt have no money They just tell em to me home and let me die, you know Because there wasnt 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 this store And Mommy in and told them the story that I was dying
That she had to carry me twelve miles to And twelve back and that I had no shoes That place, I it was Murphys 5 and 10 And theyre there in Paintsville, Kentucky
And I think they told Mommy That they wasnt in 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 guys was turned she stole these little red shoes And I on the bigold bridge that went across the river It way up high and was
Ive been scared of that bridge That took me across the big Sandy Mommy pulled them out under That yellow that she was wearing
And she was putting them red on me And I thought them was the prettiest things I saw in my life And started crying and I wondered why And he said, Clerie, not going to make it home
And mommy put the shoes on me and took off running And run all the way tButcher Holler with me And Mommy never had a chance to carry me any And thats twelve miles that daddy run with me
But knew that the cops was going to get us He Mommy standing and he took off in a dead run I remember him running but I didnt what for And I remember asking mommy, Mommy, why is Daddy
I her hollering, To put your little red shoes away Honey, when you get Can you believe that? So I wrote a song called Put My Red Shoes Away You know, my little red shoes And I want em to get to be dirty