I was 11 months old, I was startin' to walk And daddy always kept, a big behind the door Just in somebody was to come in was drunk on moonshine
You know and had to do something about it Anyway, this woman, we her old Aunt Boyd She in and she was telling mommy about her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with this in Paintsville
So she back with that big stick Showing mommy how she was To hit this in the head with it And when she went back with it, she hit me in the
And Mommy said, I cried for 5 And she I, that fifth night I had a great big knot show up in the middle of my forehead
And, you know, the only I remember I dont no pain, but I just remember mommy And daddy carrying me in this old That Mommy had out of overhalls
The knots kept getting and bigger And she me to the doctor And that stuff called mesitor, something like Mommy it made both ears Flat to my face and I aint got big ears
And them, Mommy I would that I was going to die And happened like four times So I didnt walk I was almost 5 It was, it was kind of a
Oh, I forgot about the Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id never had a of shoes And Mommy had went, me to the hospital You know, to see that was
If couldnt do something, but they wouldnt keep me Because and Daddy didnt have no money They just em to take 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 the street, you carry her down the street" And said, Let me try this here And went in and told them the story that I was dying
That she had to me twelve miles to town And twelve miles back and that I had no That place, I it was Murphys 5 and 10 And theyre still in Paintsville, Kentucky
And I think that told Mommy they wasnt in business to give shoes away Mommy daddy, says, Carry Loretta on down a little farther Said, And let me in another store"
And Mommy went right back to the same When the back was turned 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 been scared of that took me across the big Sandy River Mommy pulled them out from That yellow jacket that she was
And she was them red shoes on me And I thought them was the prettiest things I saw in my life And daddy started and I wondered why And he said, Clerie, were not to make it home
And mommy put the on me and daddy took off running And run all the way tButcher Holler with me And Mommy had a chance to carry me any farther And thats almost twelve 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 but I didnt know what for And I remember mommy, Mommy, why is Daddy running?
I remember her hollering, To put your little red away Honey, when you get Can you believe that? So I wrote a song called Put My Little Red Shoes You know, my little red shoes And I dont em to get to be dirty