Loretta Lynn: They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy Anymore

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In a conversation with Bonnie Owens, She informed me that Merle Haggard had a weakness for songs about Mama, Daddy, The Depression, and Hard Times ...

Being born and raised in the depression years, I had no problem writing this song. However, before Merle came to town and had a chance to hear it, Loretta Lynn's office called to see what I had that she might like. 

With Loretta this song was love at first sight, she went in and recorded it, and the rest is History ...

Another Award Winning Number 1 Record !!!!!!!

- Jerry

I wasn't much more than a baby

I thought he was a bear

The way my daddy towered over me

They say I learned to walk

While holdin' on to just one finger

On the hand of a man that stands six foot three

Not old enough to understand the meaning of depression

Just somethin' 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

Chorus:

They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore

Guess they've thrown away the pattern through the years

In a great big land of freedom

At a time we really need 'em

They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore

From the Harlan County coal camps

To the hills of West Virginia

My daddy hauled the timber for the mines

Education didn't count so much

As what you had born in you

Like 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 wolf back from the door

And it only proves one thing to me

When folks start belly aching

They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore

Repeat chorus:

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 Words and Music by Jerry Chesnut