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music. She will never lose <strong>the</strong> sacred<br />
fire.<br />
Born in 1934 in <strong>the</strong> Kentucky mining<br />
village of Butcher Holler, she helps her<br />
mo<strong>the</strong>r keep <strong>the</strong> house and care for her<br />
bro<strong>the</strong>rs and sisters. Her fa<strong>the</strong>r Ted<br />
works in <strong>the</strong> mine, where coal dust will<br />
kill him at <strong>the</strong> age of 41.<br />
Married at 13, Loretta has her first<br />
child at 14 and is <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r of four by<br />
<strong>the</strong> time she is 18. She sings to soo<strong>the</strong> her<br />
babies, as she had done at home. Her husband,<br />
Doolittle Lynn, nicknamed Doo<br />
or Mooney, is spellbound. He brings<br />
home a guitar, and tells his wife she has<br />
<strong>the</strong> talent to compete with <strong>the</strong> best.<br />
She turns <strong>the</strong> pages of a magazine<br />
called Country Song Roundup, and gets<br />
<strong>the</strong> urge to start writing herself. She<br />
has a knack for it, writing songs without<br />
ever having learned to read music.<br />
While she works as a waitress in Custer,<br />
Washington, Mooney is convinced she<br />
can do better than anyone on <strong>the</strong> radio.<br />
In 1960 she begins singing at <strong>the</strong> Delta<br />
Grange Dance Hall in Lynden, and she<br />
records a first song on her own label.<br />
So turn that jukebox way up high,<br />
And fill my glass up while I cry.<br />
I’ve lost everything in this world,<br />
And now I’m a honky tonk girl.<br />
Mooney sends <strong>the</strong> record to radio<br />
stations across <strong>the</strong> US, and hits <strong>the</strong> road<br />
to visit <strong>the</strong>m, on <strong>the</strong> smallest possible<br />
budget. Honky Tonk Girl hits No. 14 on<br />
<strong>the</strong> Billboard chart, and Loretta signs<br />
with Decca. Her first hit for Decca is<br />
titled, appropriately, Success, and gets<br />
to No. 6. She is soon a regular on <strong>the</strong><br />
Grand Ole Opry and <strong>the</strong> Wilburn<br />
Bro<strong>the</strong>rs Show. From <strong>the</strong>n through<br />
1979, Loretta’s recordings are often on<br />
<strong>the</strong> Billboard Country Top 10.<br />
She must have been something to<br />
see, a frail little woman, barely more<br />
than an adolescent, advancing to <strong>the</strong><br />
microphone, all shy and timid until <strong>the</strong><br />
first words of her song emerge from her<br />
lips. Only <strong>the</strong>n does she recover her<br />
confidence and delight her audience.<br />
Her pure voice, tracking each note with<br />
accuracy, has <strong>the</strong> natural break that gives<br />
country music its charm.<br />
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But <strong>the</strong> man I love when he picks up trash<br />
he puts it in a garbage can,<br />
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Ano<strong>the</strong>r song in <strong>the</strong> same vein, You<br />
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Women like you, <strong>the</strong>y’re a dime a dozen<br />
You can buy <strong>the</strong>m anywhere<br />
For you to have him, I’d have to move over<br />
And I’m gonna stand right here<br />
With words that emerge from her<br />
heart and her soul, she can express<br />
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in song was born with country music.<br />
But all I’ve seen of this old world<br />
Is a bed and a doctor bill<br />
I’m tearin’ down your brooder house<br />
’Cause now I’ve got <strong>the</strong> pill.<br />
From now on Loretta Lynn is a force<br />
to be reckoned with. Her rise is rapid.<br />
Her best-selling autobiography, Coal<br />
Miner’s Daughter, becomes a hit film of<br />
<strong>the</strong> same title, with Sissy Spacek in <strong>the</strong><br />
lead role. Her records sell in <strong>the</strong> millions,<br />
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