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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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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Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – I Still Believe in Waltzes
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[Loretta:] / I pushed him away and carefully said Im just not htat kinda girl / You might think I'm square / But you've been around in the ways of the world / I know that making is
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Loretta Lynn – What Kind of Girl (Do You Think I Am?)
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You want me to prove my love for you / I'm surprised at the way you're asking me to / You've known me so long, I can't understand / What kind of a girl do you think I am? / What
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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 – 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 – 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 – Tomorrow Never Comes
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[Verse 1] / Now you tell me that you love me / Yes, you tell me that you care / That tomorrow we'll be married / But tomorrow is never there / [Chorus] / No, tomorrow never comes
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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 – 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 – 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 – Trouble in Paradise
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There's trouble in paradise / I can sit and I know the signs so well / I know he's out there and around it every day / There's trouble, but there won't be long / 'Cause in the
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Loretta Lynn – Happy Birthday
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[Verse 1] / Well, I know where you're going and who's gonna meet you there / I know how late you'll be coming home, but guess who doesn't care / Tonight I'll step out too, and
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Loretta Lynn – I Know How
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, I love him like he wants me to and I know how / And it's my duty to know his moods when he gets moody / Yeah, I give him what he needs and that's why I'm his
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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 – Coal Miner's Daughter
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Loretta Lynn – It'll Feel Good When It Quits Hurtin'
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When you left me, you thought I'd die / Sit at home alone and cry / And it hurts me because that you were right / I tell myself that I'll begin to try / And forgive you, but then I
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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 – 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 – Your Squaw Is on the Warpath
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Well, your pet name for me is Squaw / When you come home a-drinking and can barely crawl / And all that loving on me won't make things right / Well, you're leaving me at home to
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Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn – Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out
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I take too much abuse to me that's all I ever get / Yeah callin' a man like you a husband is just like callin' old wild cat a pet / You'd better stop your runnin' around say nothin
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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 – 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 – Ain't It Funny
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The sun comes up and brings the dawn to a new day / The kids run out to play the games that kids all play / To a child, the world is milk and honey / A dime is a lot of candy money
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