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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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Wide Right – The Pill
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You wined me and dined me / When I was your girl / Promised if I'd be your wife / You'd show me the world / But all I've seen of this old world / Is a bed and a doctor bill / I'm
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Loretta Lynn – The Pill (Single Version)
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You wined me and dined me when I was your girl / Promised if I'd be your wife / You'd show me the world / But all I've seen of this old world is a bed and a doctor bill / I'm
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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 – Rated "X" (Single Version)
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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 Wanna Give Me a Lift
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Well I'm game for just about anything / But the game you've named I ain't gonna play / You say you take a little drink / And we'll go for a ride on a star / You wanna give me a
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Rolling Stone – 100 Greatest Country Songs Of All Time
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Taken from the June 2014 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine
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Loretta Lynn – You Love Everybody but You
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God was right giving you the gift of love / Yes, you've used your gift of love so willingly / God was good giving you the hands to help / You've done well and I know he must be
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Loretta Lynn – Mad Mrs. Jesse Brown
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I'm gonna call myself a taxi / I'm gonna take a little trip downtown / Search every bar and honky-tonk / Till I find Jesse Brown / Jesse ain't been making it home / The past few
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Loretta Lynn – I Can Help
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If you've got a problem, I don't care what it is / If you need a hand, I can assure you of this / I can help, I've got two loving arms, I can help / It would sure do me good to do
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Loretta Lynn – Will You Be There
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When the time comes and I need someone to hold me / When the time comes and I need someone to care / If I'm ever down and out and need somebody / If I ever call on you, will you be
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Loretta Lynn – The Hands of Yesterday
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I won't get too close to you 'cause I remember / What you said that day our love came to an end / You told me when you left, if by chance we ever met / That you didn't want me
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Loretta Lynn – Jimmy on My Mind
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Now I'm lying here with Jimmy on my mind / And next to me, my soon to be the one I left behind / Oh Lord, it's killing me to see him cryin' / You know I'm lying here beside him
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Loretta Lynn – Paper Roses
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Paper roses, paper roses / I realize the way your eyes deceived me / With tender looks that I mistook for love / So take away the flowers that you gave me / And send the kind that
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Loretta Lynn (Ft. Margo Price) – One’s on the Way (2021 version)
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[Verse 1] / They say to have her hair done / Liz flies all the way to France / Jackie's seen in a discotheque / Doin' a brand new dance / And the White House social season / Should
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Loretta Lynn – Back to the Country
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Apple blossoms in the air, rabbit hunters everywhere / It's back to the country life for me / Blue skies and butterflies, I smell Mama's apple pies / It's back to the country life
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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 – 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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Loretta Lynn – Whispering Sea
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[Verse 1] / I sat down by the sea and it whispered to me / It brought back an old love affair that used to be / It told me that you had found someone new / And left me to cry over
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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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Loretta Lynn – The Home You're Tearin' Down
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I don't know your name, I wouldn't know your face / But you're out with the one I love, out there someplace / You have an invitation, feel free to come around / Come over anytime
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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 – The One You Need
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I'm not sayin' you don't love me cause I know you do / But I have said enough to know you play some too / You tear me all to pieces then you asked me not to bleed / I'm the woman
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Loretta Lynn – Blueberry Hill
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[Verse 1] / I found my thrill / On Blueberry Hill / On Blueberry Hill / When I found you / [Verse 2] / The moon stood still / On Blueberry Hill / Yeah, it lingered until, mm-mm-mm-
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Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – The Letter
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Today I saw her for the first time since she left me / And she said, I've got a favor to ask of you / And I said all right what is it? / And she said, you know you always told me
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Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn – Our Hearts Are Holding Hands
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We're far apart but our hearts are holding hands / Yes, it's hard to sit here by myself each night / Not knowing where you are or when I'll hold you tight / Yes I have temptations
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Loretta Lynn – Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)
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[Verse 1] / You came from the city streets to my little country town / Your spell is on my baby and you've got me sorrow-bound / You don't really love him, you're playing round for
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Loretta Lynn – The Darkest Day
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[Verse 1] / Darlin', when you told me you were leavin' / I thought that you were only foolin' me / But here I am to face old blue tomorrow / With a broken heart that's filled with
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Loretta Lynn – She's Got You
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[Verse 1] / I've got your picture / That you gave to me / And it's signed with love / Just like it used to be / The only thing different / The only thing new / I've got your
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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 – 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 – L-O-V-E Love
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L-o-v-e, l-o-v-e, love / There couldn't be a bad word I haven't heard you say / Don't you know the needs of any woman? / You speak words my ears have never heard of / The only four
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Loretta Lynn – Love Is the Foundation
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I've seen him as he awakens in the morning / He reaches out his hand and without a word / As his fingers softly fall upon my face / He lights the flame of desire and makes me want
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Loretta Lynn – A Man I Hardly Know
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[Chorus] / In a booth back in a corner / Where the lights are way down low / In the arms of a man I hardly know / [Verse 1] / I let the devil take over this heart of mine / When I
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Loretta Lynn – Somebody Somewhere (Don’t Know What He’s Missin’ Tonight)
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[Intro] / Somebody somewhere / Don't know what he's missing tonight / [Verse] / It must have all started with that darned old Late Show / It made me so lonely and sad / And to make
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Loretta Lynn – Crazy Out of My Mind
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I'm through the place where I don't know my name / It's a world for the lonely go insane / I've brought along the little pieces of me he left behind / Got no place to go but crazy
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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 – To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)
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The man I've got loves to be loved on / And he likes to wear the britches / He don't like doing 'women things' / Like washing clothes and dishes / You'll find he's not that hard to
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