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Loretta Lynn
Miscellaneous
They Don't Make Em Like My Daddy (1974)
I wasnât much more than a baby I thought he was a bear
The way my daddy carried me around
They said I learned to walk while holding on to just one finger
On the hand of a man that stood six foot three
Not old enough to understand the meaning of depression
Just that the people talked about a lot
My daddy wasnât one to try to make no big impressions
Just one heck of a man that worked for what he got
They donât make em like my daddy anymore
Yeah they thrown away the pattern through the years
In a great big land of freedom at a time we really need em
Yeah they donât make em like my daddy anymore
From the Johnson County coal gates to the hills of West Virginia
My daddy worked down in those dark coalmines
Education didnât count so much itâs what you had formed in ya
Thatâs 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 wolves back from the door
And it only proved one thing to me when folks start bellyaching
They donât make em like my daddy anymore
They donât make em like my daddy anymore
Yeah they thrown away the pattern through the years
In a great big land of freedom at a time we really need em
Yeah they donât make em like my daddy anymore
They donât make em like my daddy anymore
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