Loretta Lynn Plans To Someday Add Four New Verses To โCoal Minerโs Daughterโ
on Mar 29, 2016

Nowadays, everyone knows Loretta Lynn as โThe Coal Minerโs Daughter.โ Lynn earned the nickname following the immense success of her autobiographical number one hit single of the same name.
But as Lynn shared in a recent interview with AARP, she didnโt really feel like โThe Coal Minerโs Daughterโ until after she wrote the song. Even though Lynn always knew that she was the child of a coal miner, she didnโt consider it unusual growing up.
โIt wasnโt an easy life, but you didnโt know that,โ she said. โEverybody lived that way.โ
Once Lynn started to make her way into the country music scene in 1970, she released two successful singles back to back, called โI Know Howโ and โYou Wanna Give Me a Lift.โ
During a dinner break while performing on the Wilburn Brothers Show, Lynn went back to her dressing room and picked up her guitar. She strummed a few notes, and before she knew it, she was singing โwell I was born a coal minerโs daughter.โ
Needless to say, Lynn continued what she started and ended up writing a new tune, which would later go on to become her signature song.
Originally, the song had four other verses, but Lynn was advised to cut them out to make the song shorter. Afterwards, Lynn lost the original verses, and has never found them again. Despite that, Lynn says she still plans to recut the song in the future with four additional verses, even if they arenโt exactly the same as the ones she wrote so many years ago.
For a while after the songโs release, Lynn was worried about her reputation as โThe Coal Minerโs Daughter,โ and if others would look down on her because of it.โOne time, I worried that people thought that I wasnโt a good person because I was a coal minerโs daughter, theyโd think I was poor,โ she said.
But as we now know, the opposite happened. Everyday people found it easy to connect to Lynn because of her humble upbringing, and they embraced โThe Coal Minerโs Daughterโ with open arms.
โThatโs all I go by now,โ Lynn said with a smile.
You can watch Lynnโs full interview in the video below.