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Flat Broke Songs: No. 3

'Coal Miner's Daughter'
-- Loretta Lynn (1970)


The bottom lines: "We were poor but we had love/That's the one thing my daddy made sure of/He shoveled coal to make a poor man's holler."

As she says in the opening line, Lynn was born a coal miner's daughter -- one of eight kids raised in a cabin with no electricity and no running water. Her description of Depression-era Appalachia almost literally put Butcher Hollow, Ky., on the map.

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