Loretta Lynn Plans To Someday Add Four New Verses To โ€˜Coal Minerโ€™s Daughterโ€™

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Nowadays, everyone knows Loretta Lynn as โ€œThe Coal Minerโ€™s 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 didnโ€™t really feel like โ€œThe Coal Minerโ€™s Daughterโ€ until after she wrote the song. Even though Lynn always knew that she was the child of a coal miner, she didnโ€™t consider it unusual growing up.

โ€œIt wasnโ€™t an easy life, but you didnโ€™t know that,โ€ she said. โ€œEverybody lived that way.โ€œ

Once Lynn started to make her way into the country music scene in 1970, she released two successful singles back to back, called โ€œI Know Howโ€ and โ€œYou 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 โ€œwell I was born a coal minerโ€™s 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 arenโ€™t exactly the same as the ones she wrote so many years ago.

For a while after the songโ€™s release, Lynn was worried about her reputation as โ€œThe Coal Minerโ€™s Daughter,โ€ and if others would look down on her because of it.โ€One time, I worried that people thought that I wasnโ€™t a good person because I was a coal minerโ€™s daughter, theyโ€™d 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 โ€œThe Coal Minerโ€™s Daughterโ€ with open arms.

โ€œThatโ€™s all I go by now,โ€ Lynn said with a smile.

You can watch Lynnโ€™s full interview in the video below.

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