I was 11 old, I was just startin' to walk And always kept, a big stick behind the door Just in case was to come in That was on moonshine
You know and daddy had to do something it Anyway, this woman, we called her old Aunt She in and she was telling mommy about her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with woman in Paintsville
So she reared back with 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 Right in the of my forehead
And, you know, the only thing I I dont remember no pain, but I just remember And daddy carrying me in this old That Mommy had out of overhalls
The knots kept bigger and bigger And she me to the doctor And stuff called mesitor, something like that said 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 that happened like times So I didnt walk till I was 5 It was, it was kind of a
Oh, I forgot about the Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id never had a pair of And Mommy had went, me to the hospital You know, to see what was
If they do something, but they wouldnt keep me Because Mommy and didnt have no money They just tell em to me home and let me die, you know there wasnt nothing they could do about That kind of disease, I
And, um, mommy daddy, says, Ted, you take her Down the street, you carry her the street" And said, Let me try store here And Mommy went in and told them the story I was dying
That she had to carry me twelve miles to And twelve miles and that I had no shoes That place, I it was Murphys 5 and 10 And theyre still in Paintsville, Kentucky
And I think that they Mommy That they in business to give shoes away Mommy told daddy, says, Carry Loretta on down a farther Said, And let me in another store"
And Mommy right back to the same store When the guys back was turned she these little red shoes And I on the bigold bridge that went across the river It way up high and was
Ive always been scared of that That me across the big Sandy River Mommy pulled them out under yellow 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 going to make it
And mommy put the shoes on me and took off running And run all the way ahead tButcher Holler me And Mommy never had a to carry me any farther And thats almost twelve miles that run with me
But daddy that the cops was going to get us He left Mommy standing and he off in a dead run I remember him running but I know what for And I remember asking mommy, Mommy, why is running?
I her hollering, To put your little red shoes away Honey, you get home Can you believe that? So I wrote a song called Put My Red Shoes Away You know, theyre my little red And I dont em to get to be dirty