Loretta Lynn - They Don't Make Em Like My Daddy (1974) Lyrics

Loretta Lynn
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They Don't Make Em Like My Daddy (1974)
I wasn’t much more than a baby I thought he was a bear
The way my daddy carried me around
They said I learned to walk while holding on to just one finger
On the hand of a man that stood six foot three

Not old enough to understand the meaning of depression
Just that the people talked about a lot
My daddy wasn’t one to try to make no big impressions
Just one heck of a man that worked for what he got

They don’t make em like my daddy anymore
Yeah they thrown away the pattern through the years
In a great big land of freedom at a time we really need em
Yeah they don’t make em like my daddy anymore

From the Johnson County coal gates to the hills of West Virginia
My daddy worked down in those dark coalmines
Education didn’t count so much it’s what you had formed in ya
That’s the will to live and a dream of better times

Daddy never took a handout we ate pinto beans and bacon
But he worked to keep the wolves back from the door
And it only proved one thing to me when folks start bellyaching
They don’t make em like my daddy anymore

They don’t make em like my daddy anymore
Yeah they thrown away the pattern through the years
In a great big land of freedom at a time we really need em
Yeah they don’t make em like my daddy anymore
They don’t make em like my daddy anymore