I was 11 months old, I was startin' to walk And daddy always kept, a big stick the door in case somebody was to come in That was on moonshine
You know and had to do something about it Anyway, woman, we called her old Aunt Boyd She come in and she was telling about her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with this in Paintsville
So she back with that big stick mommy how she was going To hit this in the head with it And when she went back it, she hit me in the head
And said, I cried for 5 days And she said I, that fifth I had a great big that show up Right in the of my forehead
And, you know, the only I remember I dont remember no pain, but I remember mommy And daddy carrying me in old quilt That had made out of overhalls
The knots kept getting and bigger And she me to the doctor And that stuff called mesitor, something that Mommy said it made ears Flat to my face and I aint got big ears
And them, told That I would I was going to die And that like four times So I didnt walk I was almost 5 It was, it was of a mess
Oh, I forgot about the Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id had a pair of shoes And Mommy had went, took me to the You know, to see that was
If couldnt do something, but they wouldnt keep me Mommy and Daddy didnt have no money They just tell em to 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 her down the street" And said, Let me try this store And Mommy went in and told them the that I was dying
That she had to carry me miles to town And twelve miles and that I had no shoes That place, I think it was 5 and 10 And theyre still there in Paintsville,
And I that they told Mommy That they wasnt in to give shoes away Mommy told daddy, says, Loretta on down a little farther Said, And let me stop in store"
And went right 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 way up high and was
Ive always scared of that bridge That took me the big Sandy River pulled them out from under That yellow jacket she was wearing
And she was putting them red on me And I thought was the prettiest things I ever saw in my life And daddy crying and I wondered why And he said, Clerie, were not going to it home
And mommy put the shoes on me and daddy off running And run all the way ahead Holler with me And Mommy had a chance to carry me any farther And thats twelve miles that daddy run with me
But daddy knew that the cops was 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 shoes Honey, when you get home Can you that? So I a song called Put My Little Red Shoes Away You know, theyre my little red And I dont em to get to be dirty