Informationen zum Autor LORETTA LYNN was the first woman to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association. She has had sixteen number-one singles, fifteen number-one albums, and countless other hit records. She died in 2022. Klappentext One of the most beloved country music stars of all time gives us the first collection of her lyrics and, in her own words, tells the stories that inspired her most popular songs, such as "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin'," and, of course, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl." Loretta Lynn's rags-to-riches story--from her hardscrabble childhood in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, through her marriage to Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn when she was thirteen, to her dramatic rise to the top of the charts--has resonated with countless fans throughout her more than fifty-year career. Now, the anecdotes she shares here give us deeper insight into her life, her collaborations, her influences, and how she pushed the boundaries of country music by discussing issues important to working-class women, even when they were considered taboo. Readers will also get a rare look at the singer's handwritten lyrics and at personal photographs from her childhood, of her family, and of her performing life. Honky Tonk Girl: A Life in Lyrics is one more way for Lynn's fans--those who already love her and those who soon will--to know the heart and mind of this remarkable woman. Leseprobe "The Story of My Life" I wrote the song "The Story of My Life" just because I was born in old Kentucky in them hills where folks are lucky! I wrote this song in about 1959. It was one of my first ones. Doo and I'd just started, and I was learning how to write songs. For me, I could and can only write what I've lived. I recorded this song on my very first session on Zero Records and forgot about it! Patsy, on the other hand, didn't. I told ya'll she is my biggest fan. She loved it, drug it out, and wrote a couple of new verses to it, played it for Jack White, and the rest is history. Now I can forget about this song again (laughing)! He's the story of my life, Listen close and I'll tell ya twice. Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey. I was born in old Kentucky In them hills where folks are lucky And it's paradise to me. Well, I got a feller right over the hill If he asks me to marry well I know I will. He asked me to marry, got kids of four And I'm tellin' you I don't want no more. Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey. Doo got me a guitar, I wrote me a song Moved to Nashville and it wasn't long Till I was on the Grand Ole Opry. We bought us a mansion on the hill Livin' big like we were big deals Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind I was pregnant again. Oh gee, oh Lord I swear The babies are comin' in pairs. Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey. Well, some big shot from Hollywood Thought a movie about my life would be good It was a big hit, made a big splash What I wanna know is what happened to the cash. Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey. Now me and Doo married forty-eight years Six kids later, a lot of laughter and tears. I have to say that I've been blessed Not bad for this old Kentucky girl I guess. Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey. Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey. Well, here's the story of my life, Listen and I'll tell it twice. Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey . . . Wilburns If it wasn't for Teddy and Doyle Wilburn, I don't know if I would have gotten to be as successful as I became in country music. I met Doyle for the first time in 1960. I had just recorded my record "Honky Tonk Girl" on Zero label. We met at a DJ convention out west. I gave Doyle my record, and he gave me his address and told me...

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One of the most beloved country music stars of all time gives us the first collection of her lyrics and, in her own words, tells the stories that inspired her most popular songs, such as "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin'," and, of course, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl."

Loretta Lynn's rags-to-riches story--from her hardscrabble childhood in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, through her marriage to Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn when she was thirteen, to her dramatic rise to the top of the charts--has resonated with countless fans throughout her more than fifty-year career. Now, the anecdotes she shares here give us deeper insight into her life, her collaborations, her influences, and how she pushed the boundaries of country music by discussing issues important to working-class women, even when they were considered taboo. Readers will also get a rare look at the singer's handwritten lyrics and at personal photographs from her childhood, of her family, and of her performing life. Honky Tonk Girl: A Life in Lyrics is one more way for Lynn's fans--those who already love her and those who soon will--to know the heart and mind of this remarkable woman.

Leseprobe
"The Story of My Life"

I wrote the song "The Story of My Life" just because I was born in old Kentucky in them hills where folks are lucky!

I wrote this song in about 1959. It was one of my first ones. Doo and I'd just started, and I was learning how to write songs. For me, I could and can only write what I've lived. I recorded this song on my very first session on Zero Records and forgot about it! Patsy, on the other hand, didn't. I told ya'll she is my biggest fan. She loved

it, drug it out, and wrote a couple of new verses to it, played it for Jack White, and the rest is history. Now I can forget about this song again (laughing)!

**He's the story of my life,

Listen close and I'll tell ya twice.

Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey.

I was born in old Kentucky

In them hills where folks are lucky

And it's paradise to me.

Well, I got a feller right over the hill

If he asks me to marry well I know

I will.

He asked me to marry, got kids of four

And I'm tellin' you I don't want no more.

Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey.

Doo got me a guitar, I wrote me a song

Moved to Nashville and it wasn't long

Till I was on the Grand Ole Opry.

We bought us a mansion on the hill

Livin' big like we were big deals

Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind

I was pregnant again.

Oh gee, oh Lord I swear

The babies are comin' in pairs.

Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey.

Well, some big shot from Hollywood

Thought a movie about my life would be good

It was a big hit, made a big splash

What I wanna know is what happened to the cash.

Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey.

Now me and Doo married forty-eight years

Six kids later, a lot of laughter and tears.

I have to say that I've been blessed

Not bad for this old Kentucky girl I guess.

Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey.

Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey.

Well, here's the story of my life,

Listen and I'll tell it twice.

Yeah hey, yeah hey, yeah hey . . .**

Wilburns

If it wasn't for Teddy and Doyle Wilburn, I don't know if I would have gotten to be as successful as I became in country music.

I met Doyle for the first time in 1960. I had just recorded my record "Honky Tonk Girl" on Zero label. We met at a DJ convention out west. I gave Doyle my record, and he gave me his address and told me if me and my husband ever got to Nashville we should let him know. As soon as I got home, I started writing the Wilburns letters. And they always wrote me back. I told them I really wanted to get my foot in the door in the music business. So Doyle and Teddy sent me out six songs and said to learn them and if I ever came to Nashville, Tennessee, they would demo me singing them. That was all we needed to hear! Me and Doo loaded our oldest off to Doo's mom and daddy, and Ernest and Cissie went to my mommy's house in Indiana . . . then we drove straight to the Wilburn Brothers' office. Lord, them boys were surprised to see us.

The Wilburns were a big family, and the whole family worked there. They took me and Doo …