I was 11 months old, I was just to walk And daddy always kept, a big behind the door Just in case was to come in That was on moonshine
You and daddy had to do something about it Anyway, this woman, we called her old Aunt She come in and she was telling about her Uh, husband, she thinks is out with this woman in Paintsville
So she back with that big stick Showing how she was going To hit this 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 big knot that show up Right in the of my forehead
And, you know, the thing I remember I dont remember no pain, but I just remember And daddy carrying me in this old Mommy had made out of overhalls
The knots kept getting and bigger And she took me to the And that stuff called mesitor, like that Mommy said it made both Flat to my and I aint got very big ears
And them, Mommy That I that I was going to die And that like four times So I didnt walk till I was 5 It was, it was kind of a
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 couldnt do something, but they wouldnt keep me Because Mommy and didnt have no money They just tell em to take me and let me die, you know Because there wasnt they could do about kind 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 store And went in and told them the story that I was dying
That she had to carry me miles to town And twelve back 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 in business to give shoes away Mommy told daddy, says, Loretta on down a little farther Said, And let me in another store"
And went right back to the same store When the guys back was turned she 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 took me across the big Sandy River Mommy pulled them out from That yellow jacket that she was
And she was putting red shoes on me And I thought them was the prettiest 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 took off And run all the way ahead tButcher with me And Mommy never had a chance to carry me any And thats almost twelve miles that daddy run me
But daddy knew that the was going to get us He left standing and he took off in a dead run I him running but I didnt know what for And I remember asking mommy, Mommy, why is running?
I remember her hollering, To put little red shoes away Honey, you get home Can you believe that? So I wrote a song called Put My Little Red Away You know, my little red shoes And I dont em to get to be dirty