I was 11 months old, I was just startin' to And daddy always kept, a big stick behind the in case somebody was to come in That was drunk on
You know and had to do something about it Anyway, this woman, we called her old Boyd She come in and she was mommy about her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with this in Paintsville
So she reared back that big stick Showing mommy how she was To hit this woman in the 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 fifth I had a great big knot show up in the middle of my forehead
And, you know, the thing I remember I dont no pain, but I just remember mommy And daddy carrying me in old quilt That Mommy had out of overhalls
The knots kept getting bigger and And she took me to the And that stuff called mesitor, something like Mommy said it both ears Flat to my face and I got very big ears
And them, Mommy That I would I was going to die And that happened like 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, me to the hospital You know, to see what was
If they couldnt do something, but they wouldnt me Because Mommy and didnt have no money They just em to take me home and let me die, you know Because there wasnt nothing could do about That of disease, I guess
And, um, mommy daddy, says, Ted, you take her Down the street, you her down the street" And said, Let me try store here And Mommy in and told them the story that I was dying
That she had to me twelve miles to town And twelve back and that I had no shoes That place, I think it was 5 and 10 And still there in Paintsville, Kentucky
And I think that they told That they in business to give shoes away told 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 guys back was turned she stole these red shoes And I remember on the bigold bridge went across the river It way up high and was
Ive always been scared of that That took me across the big River pulled them out from under That jacket that she was wearing
And she was putting red shoes 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, were not to make it home
And put the shoes on me and daddy took off running And run all the way ahead tButcher with me And Mommy never had a chance to me any farther And almost twelve miles that daddy run with me
But knew that the cops was going to get us He left Mommy standing and he off in a dead run I remember him but I didnt know what for And I asking mommy, Mommy, why is Daddy running?
I remember her hollering, To put your little red away Honey, when you get home Can you that? So I wrote a song called Put My Red Shoes Away You know, my little red shoes And I dont want em to get to be