Little Red Shoes-Loretta Lynn

[ti:LITTLE RED SHOES] [ar:Loretta Lynn] [al:Van Lear Rose] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.39]Artist：loretta lynn [00:02.28]Songs Title：little red shoes [00:03.98] [00:15.30]I was 11 months old [00:16.50]I was just starting to walk [00:18.56]And Daddy always kept a big stick behind the door just in case [00:22.23]Somebody was to come in that was drunk on moonshine [00:24.74]You know and Daddy had to do something about it [00:27.82]Anyway this woman we called her old Aunt Boyd [00:31.40]She come in and she was telling [00:33.36]Mommy about her uh husband she thinks is going out with this woman in [00:37.48]Paintsville [00:38.18]So she reared back with that big stick showing [00:40.88]Mommy how she was going to hit this woman in the head with it [00:43.71]And when she went back with it she hit me in the head [00:46.17]And Mommy said I cried for 5 days [00:48.49]And she said I that fifth night [00:51.01]I had a great big knot that show up right in the middle of my forehead [00:53.84]And you know the only thing I remember [00:55.48]I don't remember no pain but I just remember Mommy [00:58.12]And Daddy carrying me in this old quilt that Mommy had made out of overhalls [01:03.48]The knots kept getting bigger and bigger so she took me to the doctor [01:06.75]And that stuff called mesitor something like that [01:09.21] [01:09.98]Mommy said it made both ears flat to my face and I ain't got very big ears [01:13.82]And told Mommy that I would that I was going to die [01:17.61]And that happened like four times so I didn't walk till I was almost 5 [01:21.73]It was It was kind of a mess [01:25.32]Oh I forgot about the shoes [01:26.70]Well shoot I hadn't I'd never had a pair of shoes [01:28.82] [01:29.36]And Mommy had went [01:30.75]Took me to the hospital you know to see what that was [01:33.52]If they couldn't do something [01:34.47]But they wouldn't keep me because Mommy and Daddy didn't have no money [01:37.14]They just tell 'em to take me home and let me die you know [01:39.90]Because there wasn't nothing they could do about [01:41.79]That kind of disease I guess [01:43.05]And um Mommy told Daddy [01:46.53]Says “Ted you take her down the street you carry her down the street ” and said [01:50.18]“ let me try this store here ” and Mommy went in and told them the story that I was dying [01:56.81]That she had to carry me twelve miles to town [01:59.64]And twelve miles back and that I had no shoes [02:02.63]That place I think it was Murphy's 5 and 10 and they're still there in Paintsville Kentucky [02:06.59] [02:07.47]And I think that they told Mommy that they wasn't in business to give shoes away [02:10.68] [02:11.98]Mommy told Daddy says “Carry Loretta on down a little farther ” [02:15.64]Said “and let me stop in another store ” [02:18.05]And Mommy went right back to the same store [02:21.95]When the guy's back was turned she stole these little red shoes [02:24.15] [02:25.42]And I remember on the big'old bridge that went across the river [02:29.20]It went way up high and was [02:31.27]I've always been scared of that bridge that took me across the big Sandy River [02:34.55] [02:35.91]Mommy pulled them out from under that yellow jacket that she was wearing [02:38.74] [02:39.30]And she was putting them red shoes on me [02:41.13]And I thought them was the prettiest things I ever saw in my life [02:44.00] [02:45.07]And Daddy started crying [02:47.21]And I wondered why [02:48.53]And he said “Clerie we're not going to make it home ” [02:52.49]And Mommy put the shoes on me [02:54.07]And Daddy took off running and run all the way ahead t'Butcher Holler with me [02:56.98] [02:57.74]And Mommy never had a chance to carry me any farther [03:00.57]And that's almost twelve miles that Daddy run with me [03:03.65]But Daddy knew that the cops was going to get us [03:06.05]He left Mommy standing and he took off in a dead run [03:09.13]I remember him running but I didn't know what for [03:12.28]And I remember asking Mommy [03:13.79]“Mommy why is Daddy running ” [03:16.68]I remember her hollering [03:18.13]“To put your little red shoes away honey when you get home ” [03:20.78] [03:21.53]Can you believe that [03:22.29] [03:23.00]So I wrote a song called “Put My Little Red Shoes Away ” [03:26.53]You know they're my little red shoes and I don't want [03:28.42]'Em to get to be dirty