I was 11 old, I was just startin' to walk And daddy kept, a big stick 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 Boyd She come in and she was telling mommy her Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with woman in Paintsville
So she reared with that big stick Showing mommy how she was To hit this woman in the head it And when she went back it, she hit me in the head
And Mommy said, I cried for 5 And she I, that fifth night 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 made out of
The kept getting bigger and bigger And she took me to the And stuff called mesitor, something like that Mommy it made both ears Flat to my face and I got very big ears
And them, Mommy That I that I was going to die And that happened four times So I didnt till I was almost 5 It was, it was kind of a
Oh, I forgot about the Well, shoot, I hadnt, Id had a pair 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 Daddy didnt have no They just tell em to me home and let me die, you know Because there wasnt nothing they do about kind of disease, I guess
And, um, told daddy, says, Ted, you take her Down the street, you carry her the street" And said, Let me try this here And Mommy went in and told the story that I was dying
That she had to carry me twelve miles to And twelve miles back and that I had no That place, I it was Murphys 5 and 10 And theyre still there in Paintsville,
And I think that told Mommy That they wasnt in business to give away Mommy told daddy, says, Carry Loretta on down a farther Said, And let me stop in store"
And Mommy right back to the same store When the guys back was turned she stole little red shoes And I remember on the bigold bridge that went across the It way up high and was
Ive always been 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 started crying and I wondered why And he said, Clerie, were not going to make it
And mommy put the shoes on me and daddy took off And run all the way ahead Holler with me And Mommy never had a to carry me any farther And almost twelve miles that daddy run with me
But knew that the cops was going to get us He Mommy standing and he took off in a dead run I remember him running but I didnt what for And I asking mommy, Mommy, why is Daddy running?
I remember her hollering, To put your red shoes away Honey, when you get Can you believe that? So I a song called Put My Little Red Shoes Away You know, my little red shoes And I want em to get to be dirty