Loretta Lynn - Coalminers Doughter lyrics

Coalminer's Doughter Well I was born a coalminer'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 make sure of he shoveled coal to make a poor mans dollar my daddy worked all night on in the Van Lear coalmine all day long in the field a'howing corn mommy rocked the babes at night and read the bible by the coal oil light and everything would start all over come break of morn' daddy loved and raised us kids on a miners pay and mommy scrubed our clothes on a washboard every day well I'd seen her fingers bleed to complain there was no need she'd smile in mommies understanding way In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear but in the wintertime we'd all got a brand new pair from a mail order catalog, money made from sellin' a hog daddy always managed to get the money somewhere Yeah I'm proud to be a coalminer's daughter I remember well the well where I drew water the work we've done was hard at night we'd sleep 'cause we were tired I never thought of ever leavein' Butcher Holler Well a lot of things have changed since way back then and it's so good to be back home again not much left but the floor, nothin lives here any more exept the memories of a coalminer's daughter