Little Red Shoes Lyrics - Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn

I was 11 months old, I was just startin' to walk 

And daddy always kept, a big stick behind the door 

Just in case somebody was to come in 

That was drunk on moonshine 

You know and daddy had to do something about it 

Anyway, this woman, we called her old Aunt Boyd 

She come in and she was telling mommy about her 

Uh, husband, she thinks is going out with this woman in Paintsville 

So she reared back with that big stick 

Showing mommy how she was going 

To hit this woman in the head with it 

And when she went back with it, she hit me in the head 

And Mommy said, I cried for 5 days 

And she said I, that fifth night 

I had a great big knot that show up 

Right in the middle of my forehead 

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And, you know, the only thing I remember 

I don? t remember no pain, but I just remember mommy 

And daddy carrying me in this old quilt 

That Mommy had made out of overhalls 

The knots kept getting bigger and bigger 

And she took me to the doctor 

And that stuff called mesitor, something like that 

Mommy said it made both ears 

Flat to my face and I ain? t got very big ears 

And them, told Mommy 

That I would that I was going to die 

And that happened like four times 

So I didn? t walk till I was almost 5 

It was, it was kind of a mess 

Oh, I forgot about the shoes 

Well, shoot, I hadn? t, I? d never had a pair of shoes 

And Mommy had went, took me to the hospital 

You know, to see what that was 

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If they couldn? t do something, but they wouldn? t keep me 

Because Mommy and Daddy didn? t have no money 

They just tell? em to take me home and let me die, you know 

Because there wasn? t nothing they could do about 

That kind of disease, I guess 

And, um, mommy told daddy, says,? Ted, you take her 

Down the street, you carry her down the street" 

And said,? Let me try this store here? 

And Mommy went in and told them the story that I was dying 

That she had to carry me twelve miles to town 

And twelve miles back and that I had no shoes 

That place, I think it was Murphy? s 5 and 10 

And they? re still there in Paintsville, Kentucky 

And I think that they told Mommy 

That they wasn? t in business to give shoes away 

Mommy told daddy, says,? Carry Loretta on down a little farther? 

Said,? And let me stop in another store" 

And Mommy went right back to the same store 

When the guy? s back was turned she stole these little red shoes 

And I remember on the big? old bridge that went across the river 

It went way up high and was 

I? ve always been scared of that bridge 

That took me across the big Sandy River 

Mommy pulled them out from under 

That yellow jacket that she was wearing 

And she was putting them red shoes on me 

And I thought them was the prettiest things I ever saw in my life 

And daddy started crying and I wondered why 

And he said,? Clerie, we? re not going to make it home? 

And mommy put the shoes on me and daddy took off running 

And run all the way ahead t? Butcher Holler with me 

And Mommy never had a chance to carry me any farther 

And that? s almost twelve miles that daddy run with me 

But daddy knew that the cops was going to get us 

He left Mommy standing and he took off in a dead run 

I remember him running but I didn? t know what for 

And I remember asking mommy,? Mommy, why is Daddy running? 

I remember her hollering,? To put your little red shoes away 

Honey, when you get home? Can you believe that? 

So I wrote a song called? Put My Little Red Shoes Away? 

You know, they? re my little red shoes 

And I don? t want? em to get to be dirty