My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: Coal Miner’s Daughter
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (66671)
United States
September 20, 2024 11:03am CST
Now we come to one song that I think surprises no one with its inclusion. There are songs in this world that truly earn legendary status, and this is one. After all, it was the title of a book and a movie. One of the most iconic songs in country music history, and here it is.
Coal Miner’s Daughter - Loretta Lynn
This song is 54 years old, and it still gives me goosebumps. When I saw Loretta Lynn in concert and she sang this, all I could do was weep.
Every word is true (and yes, people in eastern Kentucky pronounce it worshboard instead of washboard). The hills and hollers of that part of the world may need to be seen to be “appreciated.”
Maybe this song has something to do with my study of coal mining history. It definitely has something to do with me being proud to be from the same state as this legend.
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Written by Loretta Lynn
Recorded by Loretta Lynn
From Coal Miner’s Daughter, 1970
Peak chart position: #1 (also charted #83 pop)
Today’s rock song: “Drift Away”
Not much left but the floors:
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One of the best, if you ask me.
@RasmaSandra (78730)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Sep
Love the song, love the lady and love the movie with Sissy Spacek
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@FourWalls (66671)
• United States
20 Sep
Love Ernest Tubb’s appearance in it, too. He was so old when that movie was made but he still looked like he did in the 60s (which means he looked “old” to me all my life 
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@celticeagle (164926)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Sep
These country folk sure know how to write tear-jerkers don't they? I enjoyed the movie too. The one that gets me is "Ode to Billy Joe"..
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@celticeagle (164926)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Sep
@FourWalls........that's a good writer for you. They make it seem so believeable.
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@FourWalls (66671)
• United States
21 Sep
I’m still amazed how many people think “Ode to Billy Joe” is a real story.
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@FourWalls (66671)
• United States
21 Sep
I haven’t seen it in one sitting, believe it or not.
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@Deepizzaguy (101223)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
20 Sep
Coal Miners Daughter is one of my favorite songs.
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@LindaOHio (174542)
• United States
21 Sep
I like this song and the movie. Have a good weekend.
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@FourWalls (66671)
• United States
21 Sep
WHAT???? One of the most unapologetically country singers of the past 60 years??? 
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@LindaOHio (174542)
• United States
22 Sep
@FourWalls Yep. Will wonders never cease?
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@Orson_Kart (6652)
• United Kingdom
22 Sep
This sounds like an intro to a naughty joke:
She was only the coal miner’s daughter, but……..
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@Orson_Kart (6652)
• United Kingdom
23 Sep
@FourWalls Have you watched the Carry On movies? Very British, but unfortunately not considered pc these days. Full of innuendos and double entendres. I loved them.
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@FourWalls (66671)
• United States
23 Sep
@Orson_Kart — I watched the two that the late Kenneth Cope was in (had a crush on him as a teenager when Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) played on rerun TV in the mid 70s).
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@FourWalls (66671)
• United States
22 Sep
Yeah, it does sound like a joke out of a Carry On movie, doesn’t it….
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@FourWalls (66671)
• United States
20 Sep
Don’t you have some homebound money to make?
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