Loretta Lynn
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Podcast Appearances
Let's start with Lynn's Honky Tonk Girl.
We once were happy, my heart was in the world, but now I'm a honky-tonk girl.
So turn as you walk the way up high, and fill my glass up while I cry.
No, I wouldn't have because I was too bashful.
I wouldn't get out in front of people.
I was really bashful, and I would have never sang in front of anybody.
You know, I just sat down with my guitar.
I was outside.
In fact, I was leaning up against the old toilet out there in West Coast in Washington State.
Did you say the toilet?
The old toilet, yeah.
And I sat there and wrote Honky Tonk Girl and Whispering Sea.
Well, I think I probably listened to a bunch of people, you know, their songs and stuff.
And I figured, well, if they can write, I can too.
So I just said, hey, I'm going to tell a story.
And that's what I did.
And had you hung out at Honky Tonks or did you know them from songs?
When I first started writing, my husband got me a job at this little bar.