I was 11 months old 我11个月大

I was just starting to walk 我刚开始走路

And Daddy always kept a big stick behind the door just in case 爸爸总是不停地在门后大棒以防万一

Somebody was to come in that was drunk on moonshine, 有人在进来的，这是喝醉了月光，

You know, and Daddy had to do something about it 你知道，爸爸不得不做点什么

Anyway, this woman, we called her old Aunt Boyd, 无论如何，这个女人，我们叫她的老大妈钱啊，

She come in and she was telling 她进来，她告诉

Mommy about her, uh, husband, she thinks is going out with this woman in 妈咪她，呃，丈夫，她认为是走出去与这个女人

Paintsville 佩恩茨维尔

So she reared back with that big stick showing 于是，她回来饲养与大棒的表现

Mommy how she was going to hit this woman in the head with it 妈妈她怎么会打这个女人的脑袋

And when she went back with it, she hit me in the head 当她回去吧，她打我的头

And Mommy said I cried for 5 days 和妈妈说，我哭了5天

And she said I, that fifth night, 她说我，那第五个晚上，

I had a great big knot that show up right in the middle of my forehead 我有一个伟大的大结，显示了正确的在我额头中间

And, you know, the only thing I remember, 而且，你知道，我唯一记得，

I don't remember no pain, but I just remember Mommy 我不记得了不痛，但我只记得妈妈

And Daddy carrying me in this old quilt that Mommy had made out of overhalls 爸爸背着我在这个古老的被子是妈妈做了出来overhalls的

The knots kept getting bigger and bigger so she took me to the doctor 本节保持越来越大，让她带我去看医生

And that stuff called mesitor, something like that 那东西叫mesitor ，类似的东西

Mommy said it made both ears flat to my face and I ain't got very big ears 妈妈说，它使双耳扁我的脸，我没有得到非常大耳朵

And told Mommy that I would, that I was going to die 告诉妈妈，我会的，我会死

And that happened like four times so I didn't walk till I was almost 5 那就像发生四次，所以我没走，直到我几乎是5

It was... It was kind of a mess... 这是......这是怎样的一个烂摊子......

   

Oh I forgot about the shoes, 哦，我忘了鞋子，

Well shoot, I hadn't... I'd never had a pair of shoes 拍好了，我没有......我从来没有一双鞋

And Mommy had went... 和妈妈已经去了......

Took me to the hospital, you know, to see what that was... 带我去医院，你知道的，看到什么，这是...

If they couldn't do something 如果他们不能做什么

But they wouldn't keep me because Mommy and Daddy didn't have no money 但他们不会让我，因为爸爸妈妈没有钱没有

They just tell 'em to take me home and let me die, you know, 他们只是告诉他们要带我回家，让我死了，你知道的，

Because there wasn't nothing they could do about 因为没有什么，他们可以做些什么

That kind of disease, I guess 这种病，我猜

And, um, Mommy told Daddy, 而且，嗯，妈妈告诉爸爸，

Says "Ted, you take her down the street, you carry her down the street..." and said, 说： “特德，你带她在大街上，你背着她在街上...... ”，并表示，

"...let me try this store here," and Mommy went in and told them the story that I was dying, “......让我来试试这家店在这里， ”和妈妈走进去，告诉他们说，我要死了的故事，

That she had to carry me twelve miles to town 她曾带我12英里镇

And twelve miles back and that I had no shoes 和12英里回来，说我没有鞋子

That place, I think it was Murphy's 5 and 10 and they're still there in Paintsville, Kentucky 那个地方，我觉得这是墨菲的5和10 ，它们还在那里佩恩茨维尔，肯塔基州

And I think that they told Mommy that they wasn't in business to give shoes away 我认为，他们告诉妈妈，他们是不是在业务上给予的鞋子走

Mommy told Daddy, says, "Carry Loretta on down a little farther," 妈妈告诉爸爸，说：“就下来了稍远一点进洛丽塔”

Said, "and let me stop in another store..." 说，“让我停在另一家店......”

And Mommy went right back to the same store 和妈妈去了右后卫的同店

When the guy's back was turned she stole these little red shoes 当那家伙的背对着她偷这些小红鞋

And I remember on the big'old bridge that went across the river 我记得那河对岸去了bigold桥

It went way up high and was... 它继续一路高，是...

I've always been scared of that bridge that took me across the big Sandy River 我一直把那个桥花了我整个的大桑迪河

Mommy pulled them out from under that yellow jacket that she was wearing 妈妈拉出来，从下了黄色的外套，她穿

And she was putting them red shoes on me 她是把他们的红鞋子对我

And I thought them was the prettiest things I ever saw in my life 我还以为他们是我在生活中见过的最漂亮的事情

And Daddy started crying 爸爸哭了起来

And I wondered why 我不知道为什么

And he said, "Clerie, we're not going to make it home," 他说， “ Clerie ，我们不会让它回家”

And Mommy put the shoes on me 和妈妈把鞋子给我

And Daddy took off running and run all the way ahead t'Butcher Holler with me 爸爸脱下了我跑和跑一路领先tButcher喊叫

And Mommy never had a chance to carry me any farther 和妈妈从来没有机会带我更远的地方

And that's almost twelve miles that Daddy run with me 就是这样运行的爸爸跟我差不多12英里

But Daddy knew that the cops was going to get us 但是爸爸知道，警察要得到美国

He left Mommy standing and he took off in a dead run 他离开妈妈站在他的死跑起飞

I remember him running but I didn't know what for 我记得他跑，但我不知道什么

   

And I remember asking Mommy, 我记得我问妈妈，

"Mommy, why is Daddy running?" “妈妈，为什么爸爸跑？ ”

I remember her hollering, 我记得她的叫喊声，

"To put your little red shoes away, honey, when you get home." “把你的小红鞋了，亲爱的，当你回家。 ”

[Laughs] [笑]

Can you believe that? 你能相信吗？

So I wrote a song called "Put My Little Red Shoes Away," 所以我写了一首歌叫“把我的小红鞋客”

You know, they're my little red shoes and I don't want 你知道，他们是我的小红鞋，我不想

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