Loretta Lynn
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And this was one of the songs that I wrote, was Don't Come Home Drinking with Loving on Your Mind.
When I wrote Don't Come Home a Drinking, I knew I could write because I'd had quite a few on the charts for that time.
Well, sure.
If a man drinks, he's going to come home drinking.
Not really.
I probably told him many times.
I didn't have to sing about it.
All right.
Well, you thought I'd be waiting up when you came home last night
You'd been out with all the boys and you ended up half-tired.
But liquor and love, they just don't mix.
Leave the bottle or me behind.
And don't come home a-drinking with love.
No, don't come home a-drinking with loving on your mind.
Just stay out there on the town and see what you can find.
Cause if you want that kind of love, well, you don't need none of mine.
So don't come home a-drinking with loving on your mind.
But, you know, she hadn't been in the business that long when I came to Nashville.