Loretta Lynn Coal Miner`s Daughter Lyrics

Coal Miner`s Daughter Lyrics

Well, I was borned a 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 coal to make a poor man's dollar.

My Daddy
worked all night in the Van Lear coal mines.
All day long in the field a
hoin' corn.
Mommy rocked the babies at night,
And read the Bible by the
coal oil light,
And ever' thing would start all over come break of
morn.

Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a miner's pay.
Mommy
scrubbed our clothes on a washboard ever' day.
Why I've seen her fingers
bleed,
To complain, there was no need,
She'd smile in Mommy's
understanding way.

In the summertime we didn't have shoes to
wear.
But in the wintertime we all got a brand new pair.
From a mail
order catalog
Money made from selling a hog,
Daddy always managed to get
the money somewhere.

Yeah, I'm proud to be a Coal Miner's Daughter,
I
remember well, the well where I drew water.
The work we done was hard,
At
night we'd sleep cause we were tired
I never thought of ever leaving Butcher
Holler.

Well a lot of things have changed since a way back then
And it
feels so good to be back home again.
Not much left but the floor, nothing
lives here anymore,
Except the memory of a Coal Miner's Daughter