The Christmas Shoes (song)

"The Christmas Shoes" is a Christmas-themed song by the Christian vocal group NewSong. The song was released through Benson Records as a bonus track on their 2000 album Sheltering Tree, and it reached No. 31 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. "The Christmas Shoes" spent one week at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. 42 on the Hot 100 chart. It was written by Eddie Carswell and Leonard Ahlstrom.
The song is apparently based on an email chain letter passed around in the 90's called "The Golden Slippers."
Content
The song recounts the events experienced by a narrator completing the last of his gift-shopping on Christmas Eve.
In the checkout aisle, a young boy is ahead of him, wishing to purchase a pair of expensive shoes for his terminally ill mother, explaining to the cashier that he hasn't much time remaining before she finally succumbs to the undisclosed illness and that he wants her to appear presentable before...