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Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner's Daughter
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Well, I was born the coal miner's daughter / In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor, but we had love / That's the one thing that Daddy made sure of / He shoveled
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Loretta Lynn – The Pill
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The Pill is Loretta Lynn’s ode to the freedoms and choices that the birth control pill (which was introduced in 1960) gave to women.
The song tells the story of a woman who has
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Loretta Lynn – Blue Kentucky Girl
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[Verse 1] / You left me for the bright lights of the town / A country boy set out to see the world / Remember when those city lights shine down / That big old moon shines on your
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Loretta Lynn – Hello Darlin'
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[Verse 1] / Hello, darlin', nice to see you, it's been a long time / You're just as handsome as you used to be / How's your new love? Are you happy? Hope you're doin' fine / Just
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Loretta Lynn – Fist City
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In this 1965 song, Loretta Lynn warns any woman dumb enough to mess with her man.
Nathan Rabin from the A.V. Club offers one of the best descriptions of the song:
Lynn grappled
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Loretta Lynn – The Other Woman
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[Verse 1] / I'd like to introduce myself, I'm the other woman / The other woman in your husband's life / The whole town's buzzin' about us and our stolen moments / They're callin
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Loretta Lynn – Peace in the Valley
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Oh well I'm tired and so weary but I must go along / Till my Lord comes and calls me calls me away oh yes / Oh well the morning's so bright and the lamb is the light / And the
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Loretta Lynn – Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’
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[Verse 1] / Well you thought I'd be waiting up / When you came home last night / You'd been out with all the boys / And you ended up half-tight / Liquor and love, they just don't
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Loretta Lynn – One’s on the Way
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“One’s on the Way” is one of the many country hits penned by famed musician, poet and raconteur Shel Silverstein. While he is perhaps most famous today for his books of silly
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Loretta Lynn – Rose Garden
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[Chorus] / I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden / Along with the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometimes / When you take, you gotta give, so live and
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Loretta Lynn – Crazy
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[Verse 1] / Crazy, crazy for feeling so lonely / I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue / [Verse 2] / I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted / And then some day, you'd leave me
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Loretta Lynn – I'm a Honky Tonk Girl
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The first song Loretta Lyn ever wrote, right after her husband bought her a $17 guitar as an eleventh anniversary present.
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Loretta Lynn – Rated "X"
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[Verse 1] / Well, if you've been a married woman / And things didn't seem to work out / Divorce is the key to bein' loose and free / So you're gonna be talked about / Everybody
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Loretta Lynn – You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
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[Verse 1] / You've come to tell me something you say I ought to know / That he don't love me anymore and I'll have to let him go / You say you're gonna take him, oh but I don't
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Loretta Lynn – These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
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[Verse 1] / You keep sayin' you got something for me / Something you call love, but confess, yes / You've been a-messin' where you shouldn't have been a-messin' / And now someone
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Loretta Lynn – Success
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[Verse 1] / We used to go out walking hand in hand / You told me all the big things you had planned / It wasn't long till all your dreams came true / Success put me in second place
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Loretta Lynn – Country Christmas
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Mommy pop the popcorn and we string it on the tree / Apples nuts and candy oh what a Christmas feel / Daddy play the organ and we'll all sing Silent Night / We'll have a good old
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Loretta Lynn – Act Naturally
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[Chorus 1] / They're gonna put me in the movies / They're gonna make a big star out of me / They'll make a film about a girl who's sad and lonely / And all I gotta do is act
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Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
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[Verse 1] / One of my fondest memories / Was sittin' on my daddy's knee / Listenin' to the stories that he told / He'd pull out that old photograph / Like a treasured memory from
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Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn – Are You Mine
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[Verse 1: Ernest Tubb] / Are you mine all life through will you kiss me when I'm blue / Will you whisper I love you and make all my dreams come true / Will you share the good and
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Loretta Lynn – Women's Prison
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[Verse 1] / I'm in a women's prison / With bars all around / I caught my darling cheating / That's when I shot him down / [Verse 2] / I caught him in a honky-tonk / With a girl I
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Loretta Lynn (Ft. Willie Nelson) – Lay Me Down
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This is a song that reflects on the vagarities of life, and it’s meaning is clear enough. The song is significant because both the performers in the song are near the end of their
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Loretta Lynn – Barney
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You could take Barney out of the barroom / But you can't take the bar out of Barney / Barney likes to smoke them filter-tipped cigarettes / And if he can't get a blonde, then he'll
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Loretta Lynn – Dear Uncle Sam
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[Verse 1] / Dear, Uncle Sam / I know you're a busy man / And tonight, I write to you / Through tears with a tremblin' hand / My darlin' answered / When he got that call from you
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Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn – A Dear John Letter
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Dear John, oh how I hate to write / Dear John, I must let you know tonight / That my love for you has died away like grass upon the lawn / And tonight I wed another, dear John / I
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Loretta Lynn – Who Was That Stranger
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He rode in with the sunset and turned the TV on / We didn't talk through supper and I went to bed alone / I was softly awakened by a touch of ecstasy / Was I only dreamin' or did
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Loretta Lynn (Ft. Jack White) – Portland, Oregon
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A single off of Loretta Lynn’s 2004 album Van Lear Rose, “Portland Oregon” is a duet between Lynn and the album’s producer, Jack White. In 2005, the song won a grammy for Best
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Loretta Lynn – Wine, Women and Song
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[Verse 1] / While I'm at home a-workin' and a-slavin' this way / You're out a-misbehavin', spendin' all of your pay / On wine, women, and song / [Verse 2] / While I'm a-makin' beds
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Loretta Lynn – Tippy Toeing
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“Tippy Toeing” was originally recorded by The Harden Trio and was also covered by Jan Howard. It is track #8 on Ms. Loretta’s album, You Ain’t Woman Enough.
This song is about
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Loretta Lynn – Pregnant Again
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The car payment's late and the mortgage is due / And three of the children are down with the flu / And this week the eggs cost us one dollar nine / And dinner was bread with white
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Loretta Lynn – This Haunted House
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[Verse 1] / I watched you leave, that's how I know you're gone / But this heart of mine keeps telling me I'm wrong / I see your face before me every night / In this haunted house
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Loretta Lynn – Table for Two
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[Verse] / I come here each night and take out your picture / I sit here and wonder just where I went wrong / There is no end in sight, no hope for the future / I miss you all over
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Angelica Garcia – Loretta Lynn
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[Verse 1] / I'm not one to fixate on passin' news / Yet my gold reflection's in the evening brew / Loretta, it's here that I met you / Our one connection, our lousy fools / [Verse
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Loretta Lynn – I Wanna Be Free
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Well, I look out the window and what do I see? / The breeze is a blowing the leaves from the trees / Everything is free, everything but me / I'm gonna take this chain from around
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Johnny Gates – Loretta Lynn
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I've been packing up all my shit / Finally sold this apartment / The air still smells like you / Chanel perfume / Still remember that day you moved in / More in love than I’d ever
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Loretta Lynn – Wings Upon Your Horns
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Before you first made love to me / You called me your wife-to-be / And after that, I saw the devil in your eyes / With your sweet smooth-talkin' ways / You turned a flame into a
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Loretta Lynn – How Great Thou Art
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Oh Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder / Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made / I see the stars, I hear the roaring thunder / Thy power throughout the universe displayed
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Loretta Lynn – Kinfolks Holler
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[Verse] / Pa and Ma, Uncle Bill and Aunt Lil / Were the first to settle this holler / They built them a house with the help of the Lord / 'Cause they didn't have the almighty
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Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
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[Chorus: Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn] / Hey, Louisiana woman, Mississippi man / We get together every time we can / The Mississippi River can't keep
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Loretta Lynn – Is It Wrong (For Loving You)
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[Chorus] / Is it wrong for loving you, is it wrong for being true? / Tell me darling, tell me please, is it wrong? / Have I waited for so long, has your love for me gone? / Is it
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Loretta Lynn – In the Sweet Bye and Bye
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In the sweet bye and bye / We shall meet on that beautiful shore / In the sweet bye and bye / We shall meet on that beautiful shore / There's a land that is fairer than day / And
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Loretta Lynn – Hey Loretta
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Written by Shel Silverstein for Loretta Lynn, who according to his nephew did not like this song.
From what I understand she (Lynn) didn’t like the song ‘Hey Loretta,’ she hated
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Loretta Lynn – Bargain Basement Dress
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Well, on a Friday night, you draw your pay / And you take in the town / You leave me at home just to lose my mind / For you're out messin' around / Well, it's four in the morning
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Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn – Sweet Thang
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I slipped out of the house about sundown / While mama was a washin' her hair / And you can bet your bottom dollar she'll come lookin' for me / When she finds that I'm not there
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Loretta Lynn – I Lie
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What would you do if you knew how I was feeling? / I wonder what you'd have to say / Afraid of the answers, I'm not taking any chances / I don't want to scare you away / Oh, so I
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Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn – Beautiful Friendships
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Can't tell you how to win friends and influence people / You can leave that to me that philosophy / But I know the score about gettin' married / That's the best way I know to make
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Loretta Lynn – Take Me Home, Country Roads
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[Verse] / Almost heaven, West Virginia / Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River / Life is old there, older than the trees / Younger than the mountains, blowin' like the breeze / [
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