0:00:32 > 0:00:36This programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42Well, I was borned a coal miner's daughter
0:00:42 > 0:00:45in a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47We were poor, but we had love.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50That's the one thing my daddy made sure of
0:00:50 > 0:00:53and he shovelled coal to make a poor man's dollar.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58My daddy, he worked all night in the Van Lear coal mines.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00All day long in the field, a hoeing corn...
0:01:00 > 0:01:03# In the field a hoeing corn
0:01:04 > 0:01:07# Mommy rocked the babies at night
0:01:07 > 0:01:11# And read the Bible by the coal oil light
0:01:11 > 0:01:15# And everything would start all over come break of morn
0:01:17 > 0:01:22# Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a miner's pay
0:01:24 > 0:01:29# Mommy scrubbed our clothes on a washboard every day
0:01:31 > 0:01:34# Why I've seen her fingers bleed
0:01:34 > 0:01:36# To complain, there was no need... #
0:01:36 > 0:01:41Loretta Lynn was 19 the first time she won the big...
0:01:41 > 0:01:43She won big at the local fair.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46Her canned vegetables brought home 17 blue ribbons...
0:01:46 > 0:01:48LAUGHTER
0:01:48 > 0:01:50..and made her Canner of the Year.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52LAUGHTER
0:01:52 > 0:01:53Where is Loretta?
0:01:53 > 0:01:54Now, THAT'S impressive.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00For a girl from Butcher Holler, Kentucky,
0:02:00 > 0:02:02that was fame.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Fortunately, for all of us,
0:02:04 > 0:02:06she decided to try her hand
0:02:06 > 0:02:08at things other than canning.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Her first guitar cost 17
0:02:11 > 0:02:13and, with it, this coal miner's daughter
0:02:13 > 0:02:15gave voice to a generation
0:02:15 > 0:02:17singing what no-one wanted to talk about
0:02:17 > 0:02:20and saying what no-one wanted to think about.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23And now, over 50 years after she cut her first record,
0:02:23 > 0:02:26- and canned her first vegetables... - LAUGHTER
0:02:26 > 0:02:29Loretta Lynn still reigns as the rule-breaking, record-setting
0:02:29 > 0:02:34- queen of country music. - APPLAUSE
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Oh, heavens.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50I never thought of anything like this when I was a kid.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51Growing up in Butcher Holler,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54that's where you'll stay, you know, you thought.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56We were way back in the hills.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58We were poor.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02We were poor, but we didn't starve - that's the main thing.
0:03:02 > 0:03:07# ..Yeah, I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter
0:03:09 > 0:03:13# I remember well, the well where I drew water
0:03:15 > 0:03:18# The work we done was hard
0:03:18 > 0:03:21# At night we'd sleep cos we were tired
0:03:21 > 0:03:26# I never thought of ever leaving Butcher Holler
0:03:28 > 0:03:32# Well, a lot of things have changed since way back then
0:03:35 > 0:03:39# And it's so good to be back home again
0:03:41 > 0:03:45# Not much left but the floor
0:03:45 > 0:03:47# Nothing lives here any more
0:03:48 > 0:03:53# Except the memory of a coal miner's daughter. #
0:03:55 > 0:03:59There's something about the Appalachian Mountains,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02the mountains that Loretta grew up in -
0:04:02 > 0:04:04it's like there's something really spiritual about them.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07It's like, so, it...
0:04:07 > 0:04:09They're like her church.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11And now they're like my church.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14That nature that's all around, you know.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18She grew up in that and it's been desecrated
0:04:18 > 0:04:22over the years by
0:04:22 > 0:04:24people who've come in and exploited
0:04:24 > 0:04:28the coal, the timber.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31They've brought down mountains and yet,
0:04:31 > 0:04:38those people that have been taken advantage of for years, for decades,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41maybe even a century,
0:04:41 > 0:04:44have survived by, you know,
0:04:44 > 0:04:46their tight-knit families,
0:04:46 > 0:04:52music is at the core of their beings and...
0:04:52 > 0:04:56despite all of the exploitation
0:04:56 > 0:04:58of those mountains,
0:04:58 > 0:04:59they're beautiful
0:04:59 > 0:05:02and much of it has survived,
0:05:02 > 0:05:03as you see.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Loretta's still living in it,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07in those...
0:05:07 > 0:05:11Appalachian Mountain chains, and so am I.
0:05:11 > 0:05:16# Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
0:05:16 > 0:05:21# Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
0:05:21 > 0:05:26# Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes
0:05:26 > 0:05:30# I'll never love blue eyes again
0:05:32 > 0:05:36# Willie, my darling, I love you
0:05:37 > 0:05:41# I love you with all of my heart
0:05:42 > 0:05:46# Tomorrow we might have been married
0:05:47 > 0:05:51# But the bottle has kept us apart. #
0:05:54 > 0:05:56My daddy could pick up anything and play it.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Play a tune on anything.
0:05:58 > 0:05:59Mommy could, too.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00All my brothers did.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02You leave there and see other people,
0:06:02 > 0:06:04and they don't play instruments.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07You think... You don't know what to think about it.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08But hill people can all do it.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10They figure it's just part of their life.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13The Grand Ole Opry started on Saturday night.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Bill Monroe'd start playing
0:06:14 > 0:06:17and Mommy'd hit the floor and start dancing.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Mommy'd dance and Daddy'd sing, and...
0:06:24 > 0:06:27# Blue moon of Kentucky, keep on shining
0:06:27 > 0:06:29# Shine on the one that's gone... #
0:06:29 > 0:06:31I used to swing on the front porch
0:06:31 > 0:06:33and sing just as loud as I could sing.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35And Daddy came out one day and said,
0:06:35 > 0:06:37"Loretty, will you hush that big mouth?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39"Everybody in this Holler can hear you."
0:06:39 > 0:06:41I said, "Well, Daddy, what difference does it make?
0:06:41 > 0:06:42"Everybody's my cousin anyway."
0:06:42 > 0:06:44# ..The stars shining bright
0:06:44 > 0:06:45# They whispered from high
0:06:45 > 0:06:47# Your love has said goodbye
0:06:47 > 0:06:51# Blue moon of Kentucky, keep on shining... #
0:06:51 > 0:06:54I've never seen this, this is great. What is this?
0:06:54 > 0:06:55You've never seen this?
0:06:55 > 0:06:56- There you are, Sissy.- There I...
0:06:56 > 0:06:57Coal Miner's Daughter.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00And I bet you're singing Coal Miner's Daughter right there.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Prob... Yeah, that was the dress.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Here's Levon Helm,
0:07:04 > 0:07:06this is the one that played my daddy.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08That bothered me so bad, when I... You know,
0:07:08 > 0:07:10I couldn't sit down beside him and talk,
0:07:10 > 0:07:13cos he'd call me Loretty, and that reminded me of Daddy
0:07:13 > 0:07:15so much that it was hard for me to talk to him.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17- "Loretty?"- Loretty.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18I love this picture.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20Love, love, love, love, love.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22- That's me.- Cos look at us.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25There's something in our eyes, they're all...
0:07:25 > 0:07:26Captured at one time.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28..alike. We look like a family.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31- Yeah, and that's what you're supposed to have been.- Yeah!
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Doolittle was a petite man.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43You know, he wasn't a giant guy,
0:07:43 > 0:07:45but he had a giant persona
0:07:45 > 0:07:48and he really has fire inside of him.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Doolittle was a sweet, funny, darling man -
0:07:51 > 0:07:55but he was also highly excitable
0:07:55 > 0:07:58and he had a...
0:07:58 > 0:08:00You know, you could set him off.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02He had that little... You know that little rascal was in there,
0:08:02 > 0:08:04that smart rascal.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07- INTERVIEWER:- There's a bit in the book, and in the movie,
0:08:07 > 0:08:11where it's kind of clear you didn't know what was going to happen
0:08:11 > 0:08:13on your wedding night.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16You can say that again.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17There's no telling...
0:08:17 > 0:08:20I'm telling you, it was all this thing ever was.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21No, you don't know.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24How could you know at that age?
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Mommy didn't tell us nothing.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30'What we learned, we learned ourselves.'
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Loretta, you ain't supposed to wear a nightgown over your clothes.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33I'm freezing.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Well, get on in there and take off everything but your nightgown now.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41My dad's side of the family are the Lynns
0:08:41 > 0:08:43and they are Irish,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46and they are loud and funny, and I...
0:08:46 > 0:08:48They probably talked about it all.
0:08:48 > 0:08:49Go on.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Go on now.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56The funny thing about my mom,
0:08:56 > 0:08:58she really is, to this day,
0:08:58 > 0:09:00very innocent.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01My grandmother and grandfather,
0:09:01 > 0:09:03on my mom's side of the family,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05they were very quiet,
0:09:05 > 0:09:08really shy people
0:09:08 > 0:09:10and I can see where they didn't talk about things like...
0:09:10 > 0:09:13where babies come from
0:09:13 > 0:09:16or having those kinds of conversations with their children.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23You know, they were dead lucky because she became rich and famous.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26But, nonetheless, it was a real journey
0:09:26 > 0:09:28that had a very inauspicious beginning
0:09:28 > 0:09:32and could have ended in tears, and all sorts of things.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34But they had a mountain to climb.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Unless you present that mountain,
0:09:36 > 0:09:39then there's no achievement in doing what they did.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42There's a real roughness to the beginning of their life together -
0:09:42 > 0:09:45a kind of violence about it and a threat about it -
0:09:45 > 0:09:48and I don't think you should compromise that,
0:09:48 > 0:09:52because they travelled a great distance to be in love.
0:09:52 > 0:09:53SHE SCREAMS
0:09:53 > 0:09:56It's just a little rough the first time, Loretta, is all.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57Don't worry about that.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59'You know, he'd been to war, he was a soldier
0:09:59 > 0:10:01'and she was this kid, this virgin child,
0:10:01 > 0:10:03'and all this sort of thing.'
0:10:03 > 0:10:05And if you pussyfoot around that, and try to soften that,
0:10:05 > 0:10:09you'll miss the whole joy of the relationship
0:10:09 > 0:10:12and the joy of the love story.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Baby, it's just a little rough the first time, that's all.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17- Didn't seem too rough on you.- Well, you better get used to it, darling,
0:10:17 > 0:10:19because that's what a damn marriage is...
0:10:19 > 0:10:21I ain't going to get used to you getting on me
0:10:21 > 0:10:22and sweating like an old pig!
0:10:25 > 0:10:29The movie portrays Dad as being mean to Mama.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Mama whooped his ass regular.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33I mean, she knocked those front teeth out.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35They'd get in fights out in this front yard
0:10:35 > 0:10:38and she'd turn him flips and everything else out here, you know.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39He'd be drunk.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40I'd stand up and fight him.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41If he smacked me or anything,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44I'd stand up and fight him, just like...
0:10:44 > 0:10:46I'd be fighting another woman, you know.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Hey, Doolittle, how are you?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51- Good day, isn't it?- It sure is.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54- How you been doing? - Been doing a hell of a lot.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Working too damn hard.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56What about you?
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Hey, Doolittle Lynn.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Who's that sow wallowin' in your Jeep?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03What did you call me?
0:11:03 > 0:11:05A sow, that's a woman pig!
0:11:05 > 0:11:07THEY LAUGH
0:11:07 > 0:11:09He'd smack me, I'd smack him.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12He'd pull my hair, I pulled his hair.
0:11:12 > 0:11:13That's the way it was...
0:11:15 > 0:11:17..but me and Doo got along good.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19I just moved out of my daddy's house with Doo.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22We went to western Washington.
0:11:22 > 0:11:27# Some morning when you wake up all alone
0:11:29 > 0:11:35# Just come on home to your blue Kentucky girl
0:11:46 > 0:11:52# You left me for the bright lights of the town
0:11:54 > 0:12:01# A country boy set out to see the world
0:12:02 > 0:12:08# Remember when those city lights shine down
0:12:09 > 0:12:16# That big old moon shines on your Kentucky girl. #
0:12:16 > 0:12:19We moved from Butcher Holler, see.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22My oldest sister Betty and Jack was born in Kentucky,
0:12:22 > 0:12:25and me and Cissie, my sister that's 11 months younger than me,
0:12:25 > 0:12:27we was born in Bellingham, Washington.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29And...
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Dad was a mechanic there
0:12:30 > 0:12:33and then he worked on a dairy farm.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36And Mama did the cooking for the help, and Dad did the milking.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Did 160 cows in the morning from four to eight,
0:12:39 > 0:12:41and four to eight in the afternoon -
0:12:41 > 0:12:43and then, in the daytime, cut hay and stuff.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Hard on me, you know, I didn't know anybody
0:12:46 > 0:12:48and I never got out of the house
0:12:48 > 0:12:49and he kept me in the house -
0:12:49 > 0:12:51with one baby right after the other.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54So, he come in one night
0:12:54 > 0:12:57and I thought he was going to take me out, you know?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59He said, no, he was going out by himself.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02I had Ernest Ray and Cissie both in my arms.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05Ernest couldn't walk and I had a tiny baby.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08He pulled my hair, pulled one of them pin tails,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11or pin curlers, pulled it out and it hurt my head, so...
0:13:11 > 0:13:13He was drinking,
0:13:13 > 0:13:15so I just set Ernest down,
0:13:15 > 0:13:16I kept Cissie in my arms
0:13:16 > 0:13:18and I went around and meant to hit him in the shoulder
0:13:18 > 0:13:21and I hit him in the mouth and knocked two teeth out.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23I heard teeth hitting the floor and I thought,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26"Oh, my God, I'm dead. I know I'm dead.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28"He's not going to put up with this."
0:13:28 > 0:13:30But, you know, he laughed.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33He went around with two teeth missing for ever
0:13:33 > 0:13:35until we got the money to get him some teeth
0:13:35 > 0:13:37and we did that after I started singing.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40LORETTA LAUGHS He was kind of proud of it, yeah.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43He'd tell them, "My old lady knocked 'em out."
0:13:45 > 0:13:48# Well, I like my lovin' done country style
0:13:48 > 0:13:51# And this little girl would walk a country mile
0:13:51 > 0:13:55# To find her a good ol' slow talkin' country boy
0:13:55 > 0:13:57# I said a country boy
0:13:57 > 0:14:00# I'm about as old-fashioned as I can be
0:14:00 > 0:14:04# So I hope you like what you see
0:14:04 > 0:14:07# If you're lookin' at me
0:14:07 > 0:14:09# You're lookin' at country
0:14:10 > 0:14:13# You don't see no city when you look at me
0:14:13 > 0:14:16# Cos country's all I am
0:14:16 > 0:14:18# I love runnin' bare-footed through the old corn fields
0:14:18 > 0:14:22# And I love that country ham
0:14:22 > 0:14:25# Well, you say I'm made just to fit your plans
0:14:25 > 0:14:29# But does a barnyard shovel fit your hands?
0:14:29 > 0:14:30# If your eyes are on me
0:14:31 > 0:14:34# You're lookin' at country
0:14:34 > 0:14:36# If your eyes are on me
0:14:36 > 0:14:39# You're lookin' at country. #
0:14:42 > 0:14:44CHEERING
0:14:47 > 0:14:50You know, she had four kids and Dad got her an old guitar
0:14:50 > 0:14:53and she learned herself to play bar chords
0:14:53 > 0:14:55and there's a little old bar that Dad used to go to,
0:14:55 > 0:14:57there in Blaine, Washington,
0:14:57 > 0:14:59and Dad told her, says,
0:14:59 > 0:15:03"You're a better singer than them girls and guys
0:15:03 > 0:15:05"that's getting up there and singing and stuff."
0:15:05 > 0:15:07And Mama, "I ain't going to that bar," and stuff.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09The band was up playing
0:15:09 > 0:15:12and Doo dragged me out on stage and said,
0:15:12 > 0:15:13"I want you to let this girl sing.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16"Next to Kitty Wells, she's the best singer in the country."
0:15:16 > 0:15:19And they said, "Well, we'll listen to her later on."
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Well, Doo said, "Well, what day?"
0:15:21 > 0:15:24And they said they had to get busy to tell him, you know,
0:15:24 > 0:15:26exactly when they were going to do that.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28And Doo said, "I'm going to hold you to it."
0:15:28 > 0:15:30And I sang...
0:15:30 > 0:15:31You Are My Sunshine.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34I didn't have a lot of songs
0:15:34 > 0:15:36because I didn't know them a bunch, you know.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39And they said, "Saturday night,
0:15:39 > 0:15:41"bring her in and we'll put her in the band."
0:15:41 > 0:15:43So, that's the way it started.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45And I got my job playing with the band.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47I was making 12 on Saturday night
0:15:47 > 0:15:50and I thought, "I'm going to get rich."
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Well, you know, I started trying to write before I ever sang
0:15:53 > 0:15:56and I never could get it together, so I just quit.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59And then when I started singing, why, I looked at the song book
0:15:59 > 0:16:01and thought, "Well, heck, this is easy."
0:16:01 > 0:16:04So, I threw the song book down and wrote my own songs.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07When I was a kid, she worked in the strawberry fields and stuff.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09She'd take me and Cis and put us down,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12and she'd take an old paper sack and she'd be picking strawberries,
0:16:12 > 0:16:14a nickel a crate,
0:16:14 > 0:16:17and she's stacking strawberries up, and she'd be writing...
0:16:17 > 0:16:19What was her first song?
0:16:19 > 0:16:21- Honky Tonk Girl. - Honky Tonk Girl.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24She wrote it in the strawberry field, just on a paper sack.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31# Ever since you left me
0:16:31 > 0:16:33# I've done nothing but wrong
0:16:35 > 0:16:40# Many nights I've laid awake and cried
0:16:41 > 0:16:44# We once were happy
0:16:44 > 0:16:47# My heart was in a whirl
0:16:47 > 0:16:52# But now I'm a honky tonk girl
0:16:54 > 0:16:59# So turn that jukebox way up high
0:17:00 > 0:17:05# And fill my glass up while I cry
0:17:07 > 0:17:14# I've lost everything in this world
0:17:14 > 0:17:18# And now I'm a honky tonk girl. #
0:17:32 > 0:17:39# I just can't make a right with all of my wrongs
0:17:39 > 0:17:45# Every evening of my life seems so long
0:17:45 > 0:17:51# I'm sorry and ashamed for all these things you see... #
0:17:51 > 0:17:54I went to every radio station one way,
0:17:54 > 0:17:56went back to Washington another way
0:17:56 > 0:17:59and, that way, I swept one side of the country and the other side.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01But I'd go in the radio station,
0:18:01 > 0:18:03I'd sit there until they played my record.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Sometimes I had to sit there three or four hours.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08# ..To lose my memory of him
0:18:09 > 0:18:16# I've lost everything in this world
0:18:16 > 0:18:20# And now I'm a honky tonk girl. #
0:18:20 > 0:18:24This was a girl singer coming into town...
0:18:25 > 0:18:29..singing with this voice
0:18:29 > 0:18:30like she came from the state of Kentucky,
0:18:30 > 0:18:33accent - state of Kentucky,
0:18:33 > 0:18:37with this Bakersfield, West Coast beat,
0:18:37 > 0:18:40and so when you... When it came on the radio, you know,
0:18:40 > 0:18:44there's that music - the Beatles did it -
0:18:44 > 0:18:46that you just take the dial and you just turn it up
0:18:46 > 0:18:47just that tad bit and you go,
0:18:47 > 0:18:50"Oh, wow, this is something different, I've got to hear it."
0:18:50 > 0:18:54I was down there at Tree Publishing Company, where I was writing songs,
0:18:54 > 0:18:56and the Wilburn brothers had an office right across the hall.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00And now... Whether this was the day she met the Wilburn brothers
0:19:00 > 0:19:01or whatever, I really don't know,
0:19:01 > 0:19:04but she and her husband were standing in the atrium there,
0:19:04 > 0:19:05in this building,
0:19:05 > 0:19:09and she had on this little homemade-looking cowgirl outfit.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10Totally out of place.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13She had the hat kind of back,
0:19:13 > 0:19:15had the little rope or string,
0:19:15 > 0:19:19or strap, or whatever, under and had the hat back behind her like that,
0:19:19 > 0:19:21and this little cowgirl dress on.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Best as I remember, she had on boots.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25I think she had on boots.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26And they were just kind of standing there.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29This was a little white outfit with maybe some red in it,
0:19:29 > 0:19:33and the people coming in and out of the publishing company,
0:19:33 > 0:19:35where I was... "Who is that out there?"
0:19:35 > 0:19:36"What is that girl...?"
0:19:36 > 0:19:37"Does she think this is a rodeo?"
0:19:37 > 0:19:39"What...? What's going on here?"
0:19:39 > 0:19:40You know.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Doyle and Teddy Wilburn,
0:19:42 > 0:19:44they were helping me.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47They'd just had them a big hit record.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Uh-oh, Trouble's Back In Town.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53# Uh-oh, trouble's back in town... #
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Hello there, and welcome to another fun-filled half hour
0:19:58 > 0:20:01of country music on the Wilburn Brothers Show.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05So, we all fell in love with each other and that's...
0:20:05 > 0:20:08We travelled the country for a long time.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13# Somewhere between
0:20:13 > 0:20:16# Your heart and mine
0:20:17 > 0:20:19# There's a window
0:20:19 > 0:20:21# That I can't see through
0:20:24 > 0:20:27# And there's a wall so high
0:20:30 > 0:20:32# It reaches the sky
0:20:33 > 0:20:38# Somewhere between me and you. #
0:20:39 > 0:20:43You know, we didn't run into each other immediately but,
0:20:43 > 0:20:45from what I've heard since then,
0:20:45 > 0:20:47we hit town about the same time.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- INTERVIEWER:- What was it like then?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Well, for a guy like me, you know,
0:20:53 > 0:20:54a songwriter from Texas...
0:20:56 > 0:20:59..it was a challenge but it was also the place
0:20:59 > 0:21:01that I had always been told is where to go
0:21:01 > 0:21:03if you've got a song, you know -
0:21:03 > 0:21:06and Nashville was the place to get it recorded.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09So, you know, I had some successes through the years
0:21:09 > 0:21:11and so did Loretta.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13She's... She's done wonderful.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15- INTERVIEWER:- When did you first meet her?
0:21:15 > 0:21:19Yeah, we ran into each other at the Opry, you know,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22a couple of times and, you know,
0:21:22 > 0:21:24got to say hello and know each other.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27'Becoming a top Opry star wasn't easy.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31'There was plenty of competition and it took a lot of hard work
0:21:31 > 0:21:34'and determination, in addition to talent.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37'Ernest Tubb remembers his own climb to the top
0:21:37 > 0:21:40'and the people who helped him along the way.'
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Well, hi there, and welcome to the Ernest Tubb Record Shop.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45I've talked with many country music fans right here
0:21:45 > 0:21:48over this counter, throughout the past 20 years
0:21:48 > 0:21:51that we have had the Ernest Tubb Music Shop, and many of them...
0:21:51 > 0:21:55'I went and begged Ernest Tubb to put me on, and he did.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58He listened to my record and he said, "That little girl can sing,"
0:21:58 > 0:22:00and he put me on the Record Shop.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03I'm sure that he probably helped me
0:22:03 > 0:22:05get on the Grand Ole Opry, too.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07# I just can't make a right
0:22:07 > 0:22:10# With all of my wrongs
0:22:10 > 0:22:15# Every evening of my life seems so long
0:22:17 > 0:22:20# I'm sorry and ashamed
0:22:20 > 0:22:23# For all these things you see
0:22:23 > 0:22:27# But losing him has made a fool of me. #
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Remember when we didn't have any...
0:22:29 > 0:22:31- This is the first place I ever sung, you know?- Yes, yeah.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Your albums are all up on the top row.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37I put them up as numerical order as they came out.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40- Yeah.- Right.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43I don't know if you remember this or not, but...
0:22:43 > 0:22:46you would be doing the hosting at Midnite Jamboree
0:22:46 > 0:22:49and they'd be hollering at the back of the store, "We can't see her!"
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- I know it.- I'd take those Coke crates up,
0:22:52 > 0:22:55you pulled your shoes off and did the Midnite Jamboree that way.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57- That's right.- You remember that? - Yeah, I do.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59This is where it started, right here at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02I got up here and played my guitar and sung Honky Tonk Girl
0:23:02 > 0:23:06- and I sung I Fall to Pieces for Patsy.- Mm-hmm.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08# You want me to act
0:23:08 > 0:23:12# Like we've never kissed
0:23:12 > 0:23:16# You want me to forget
0:23:16 > 0:23:19# Pretend we've never met
0:23:21 > 0:23:23# And I've tried
0:23:23 > 0:23:25# Lord, I've tried
0:23:25 > 0:23:27# But I haven't yet
0:23:29 > 0:23:32# You walk by and I... #
0:23:32 > 0:23:34And I sung I Fall to Pieces and said,
0:23:34 > 0:23:38"I'm going to dedicate this to Patsy, she's in the hospital."
0:23:38 > 0:23:39And that's how...
0:23:39 > 0:23:40And then I met her.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44She sent Charlie to get me to bring me to the hospital.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46I didn't know who Loretta was and she said,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49"Go down and find this girl and tell her I want to see her."
0:23:49 > 0:23:51And so I had to go down and go, "Who's Loretta Lynn?"
0:23:51 > 0:23:54You know, I didn't know who she was.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56But I went down there and found her and told her and...
0:23:57 > 0:24:00..she says she would come out the next day.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Well, I told her Patsy wanted to see her,
0:24:02 > 0:24:04so she grabbed me and hugged me around the neck.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07So, they came out to the hospital the next day
0:24:07 > 0:24:11and visited with Patsy and then we stayed friends all after that.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15Patsy helped her with her stage presence and then...
0:24:17 > 0:24:19..how to act on stage and be a little more forward.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Loretta was kind of bashful and laid back.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24She just gave me a lot of clothes.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27That might have been what she was trying to tell me, "Dress better."
0:24:27 > 0:24:30But I wore a pair of panties that she gave me for four years
0:24:30 > 0:24:32and I don't know how long she had them
0:24:32 > 0:24:36but I never did wear these panties out, I finally just kept them.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39There ain't no way to wear them out.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41- Hello. How are you, Tommy?- She asked me a few minutes ago, says,
0:24:41 > 0:24:44"Reckon I'll ever get over being nervous on these things?"
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Loretta, tell us a little something about yourself, if you will.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49Where were you performing before you came to the Opry?
0:24:49 > 0:24:52I had a little band of my own up in the state of Washington.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54A little place called Blaine, Washington.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57And we played there six nights a week,
0:24:57 > 0:25:00and my brother played lead guitar and,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03about six months ago, we moved back here.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- Well, we're awful tickled pink to have you with us.- Thank you.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08We know the folks out there watching are awful glad to have you, too,
0:25:08 > 0:25:11and we're looking forward to hearing you do us a number.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13What's going to be the first number you'll do?
0:25:13 > 0:25:15I think I'll do one called The Girl That I Am Now.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17This is on the back of the record I had out called
0:25:17 > 0:25:19I Walked Away From The Wreck.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23All right. Loretta Lynn!
0:25:27 > 0:25:33# Mhm-mhm-mhm
0:25:33 > 0:25:40# Oh, could he love the girl that I am now? #
0:25:41 > 0:25:45When I was blessed to take over
0:25:45 > 0:25:49and build her new museum for her...
0:25:49 > 0:25:52I was amazed that she had Patsy Cline's underwear
0:25:52 > 0:25:56on display in her previous one-room museum.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58And...
0:25:59 > 0:26:02..she would probably have me put them out now.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05As you can see, Loretta Lynn keeps everything.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09She's a hoarder before they even had a television show about it, so...
0:26:09 > 0:26:12You know, she just grew up in Butcher Holler
0:26:12 > 0:26:14and so you don't get rid of things
0:26:14 > 0:26:16because you didn't have any.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19But thank God she kept it all and,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22yes, those famous panties are in here,
0:26:22 > 0:26:24but they're just not on display.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28Patsy Cline is the one that got
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Loretta into wearing the long gowns.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Patsy was the inspiration.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Owen Bradley recorded me
0:26:39 > 0:26:43and he's one of the greatest producers in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45He did Kitty Wells,
0:26:45 > 0:26:46he'd done Patsy Cline...
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Oh, yeah, him and Patsy were big buddies.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52When I come to Nashville, they were big buddies.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59# And now I'm a honky tonk girl. #
0:27:02 > 0:27:04APPLAUSE
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Hey, y'all. My name is Tayla Lynn and we're...
0:27:10 > 0:27:11- CHEERING - Woo!
0:27:11 > 0:27:15..so excited to be here, finally playing at Tootsie's.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18My grandmother played across the alleyway there for a long time,
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Ms Loretta Lynn.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23CHEERING
0:27:23 > 0:27:24So, my dad and aunts,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26and all of them, grew up in here.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28That says a lot about our family.
0:27:28 > 0:27:31We're going to do some of her songs.
0:27:31 > 0:27:32We're going to start off with
0:27:32 > 0:27:34You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man.
0:27:34 > 0:27:37# You come to tell me something
0:27:37 > 0:27:41# You say I ought to know
0:27:41 > 0:27:46# That he don't love me any more and I have to let him go
0:27:46 > 0:27:49# You say you're going to take him
0:27:49 > 0:27:53# Oh, but I don't think you can
0:27:53 > 0:27:55MUFFLED: # Cos you ain't woman enough to take my man. #
0:27:55 > 0:28:00Most would-be stars arrive in Nashville, long on ambition
0:28:00 > 0:28:02and short on knowledge of the music business.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05So, many make their first stop,
0:28:05 > 0:28:07a well-known country music tavern,
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Tootsie's Orchid Lounge.
0:28:09 > 0:28:10Here,
0:28:10 > 0:28:12located near the Opry house,
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Tootsie's has been a mixing place
0:28:14 > 0:28:17for songwriters, musicians
0:28:17 > 0:28:20and fans for more than ten years.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22I sang at the Grand Ole Opry,
0:28:22 > 0:28:26which was right next door to Tootsie's
0:28:26 > 0:28:28and right behind the Ryman Auditorium.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Everybody would come into Tootsie's after the show
0:28:30 > 0:28:34or between shows or whatever and sit around, listen to the jukebox
0:28:34 > 0:28:38and drink a beer and listen to country music.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41But that's where I met Charlie Dick,
0:28:41 > 0:28:44who was the husband of Patsy Cline,
0:28:44 > 0:28:47and I had just written a song called Crazy
0:28:47 > 0:28:49and he wanted Patsy to hear it.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51We were in Tootsie's one night and he said
0:28:51 > 0:28:53"Let's go let Patsy hear this song."
0:28:53 > 0:28:54I said, "No, no. It's midnight,
0:28:54 > 0:28:56it's late and we're drinking."
0:28:56 > 0:28:57He said, "Come on."
0:28:57 > 0:29:01But Patsy made me get out of the car and come in,
0:29:01 > 0:29:03and she recorded the song the next week.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10The first time I can remember...
0:29:10 > 0:29:12being at Tootsie's,
0:29:12 > 0:29:16I was probably around four -
0:29:16 > 0:29:17four or five years old.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20I remember coming here...
0:29:21 > 0:29:23..with my twin sister, Peggy -
0:29:23 > 0:29:25and my dad, he would...
0:29:25 > 0:29:28He would walk us over and he would set us up on the bar,
0:29:28 > 0:29:29one on each side,
0:29:29 > 0:29:31and Ms Tootsie
0:29:31 > 0:29:34would hand us a piece of gum apiece.
0:29:34 > 0:29:38And we would sit here with Dentyne, that was the gum,
0:29:38 > 0:29:40each of us would have a piece of gum
0:29:40 > 0:29:43while my dad would sit here and he would talk.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46My dad would do a lot of drinking here at Tootsie's.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48# I'm in the way
0:29:48 > 0:29:50# For you to get to him
0:29:50 > 0:29:52# I'd have to move over
0:29:52 > 0:29:54# And I'm gonna stand right here. #
0:29:54 > 0:29:57In 1986, my twin sister, Peggy and I,
0:29:57 > 0:30:02we decided we wanted to give it a shot at a singing career, as well.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05And we were the house band here at Tootsie's every Thursday night,
0:30:05 > 0:30:07and we were called the Honkin' Billies.
0:30:07 > 0:30:11They say if the Ryman Auditorium is the Mother Church of Country Music,
0:30:11 > 0:30:16then Tootsie's has to be the Mother Honky Tonk of all times.
0:30:16 > 0:30:17We always would laugh and say,
0:30:17 > 0:30:20"Mom would do the Opry on Saturday nights
0:30:20 > 0:30:23"and Dad would come over and play Tootsie's on Saturday night."
0:30:23 > 0:30:25But my dad didn't sing.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28His job was to inspire the songs
0:30:28 > 0:30:30that she would sing and write -
0:30:30 > 0:30:33and those bottles would have a...
0:30:33 > 0:30:36A lot to do with them.
0:30:36 > 0:30:41# And don't come home a-drinking with loving on your mind. #
0:30:42 > 0:30:44My mom,
0:30:44 > 0:30:46my aunt Crystal Gayle,
0:30:46 > 0:30:48my aunt Peggy Sue,
0:30:48 > 0:30:50my uncle Jay Lee...
0:30:50 > 0:30:52Just in that family of eight children,
0:30:52 > 0:30:54four of them had
0:30:54 > 0:30:57songs on the charts and record deals.
0:30:57 > 0:30:58In my mom's family,
0:30:58 > 0:31:00my brother Ernest Ray,
0:31:00 > 0:31:02my sister Cissie,
0:31:02 > 0:31:05Peggy and I all had record deals.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07- INTERVIEWER:- And what about your grandchildren?
0:31:07 > 0:31:09We talked to Emmy Rose yesterday.
0:31:09 > 0:31:11Emmy is my angel.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13She... She's...
0:31:13 > 0:31:17If she wants to, she can be anything she wants to be
0:31:17 > 0:31:19cos she's a great singer
0:31:19 > 0:31:21and she writes like she's 40 years old,
0:31:21 > 0:31:23and has been since she's ten years old.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26- INTERVIEWER:- The coal miner is Loretta's dad...- Mm-hmm.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29- ..so she's the coal miner's daughter...- Mm-hmm.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32..so you're the coal miner's daughter's daughter's daughter.
0:31:32 > 0:31:34That's actually in my song.
0:31:34 > 0:31:35- Oh, do it!- It's like...
0:31:35 > 0:31:37Oh, you mean to do my song? The whole song?
0:31:37 > 0:31:39- No, do the bit with... - Oh, it's like...
0:31:39 > 0:31:43# From the hands of a girl from Butcher Holler
0:31:43 > 0:31:49# To the hands of a coal miner's great-granddaughter. #
0:31:50 > 0:31:52See? It's granddaughter,
0:31:52 > 0:31:53great-granddaughter.
0:31:54 > 0:31:58SHE PLAYS "I GOT STRIPES"
0:31:58 > 0:32:01All right there, Johnny Cash.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07# You've come to tell me something
0:32:07 > 0:32:09# You say I ought to know
0:32:10 > 0:32:15# That he don't love me any more and I'll have to let him go
0:32:17 > 0:32:19# You say you going to take him
0:32:19 > 0:32:22# Oh, but I don't think you can
0:32:22 > 0:32:26# Cos you ain't woman enough to take my man. #
0:32:28 > 0:32:30# Women like you they're a dime a dozen
0:32:30 > 0:32:33# You can buy 'em anywhere
0:32:33 > 0:32:35# For you to get to him I'd have to move over
0:32:35 > 0:32:38# And I'm gonna stand right here
0:32:38 > 0:32:40# It'll be over my dead body
0:32:40 > 0:32:43# So get out while you can
0:32:43 > 0:32:47# Cos you ain't woman enough to take my man. #
0:32:47 > 0:32:50Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' With Lovin' On Your Mind -
0:32:50 > 0:32:51Mama wrote that about Dad.
0:32:51 > 0:32:54You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man, Your Squaw Is On The Warpath -
0:32:54 > 0:32:56All them number-one songs
0:32:56 > 0:32:58that Mama wrote was about Dad.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00And Mama stayed mad at him all the time,
0:33:00 > 0:33:03I said, "I don't know why you stay mad at him,
0:33:03 > 0:33:04"he made us millions of dollars."
0:33:04 > 0:33:06I said, "If it wasn't for him,
0:33:06 > 0:33:08"you wouldn't of ever wrote them damn songs."
0:33:08 > 0:33:11I wrote every song that I've ever wrote about him.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13No, he gave me a lot of opportunities.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17My mom and dad had many big fights
0:33:17 > 0:33:20that have been gone down on record through songs and stuff,
0:33:20 > 0:33:24but this room was a huge problem
0:33:24 > 0:33:26because my mom saw this whole south-western
0:33:26 > 0:33:30kind of Indian art and the Native American look,
0:33:30 > 0:33:32and my dad wanted that masculine den
0:33:32 > 0:33:35with his cowboy things and his guns.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38They ended up compromising, but, I don't know,
0:33:38 > 0:33:42I guess probably the Native Americans won in this room.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47Mm-hm. Mommy had Cherokee, her daddy was full-blooded Cherokee.
0:33:47 > 0:33:49And Grandpa... I told Mommy one day, I said,
0:33:49 > 0:33:52"I don't like Grandpa and Grandpa don't like me."
0:33:52 > 0:33:53She said, "Why?"
0:33:53 > 0:33:55I said "I'll sit down in the chair,
0:33:55 > 0:33:58"when he sits in a chair and reads, I'll sit right down under him
0:33:58 > 0:34:01"and I keep talking about him and all he'll do is 'hmm', grunt."
0:34:01 > 0:34:04And I said, "That's all Grandpa does,"
0:34:04 > 0:34:06and Mommy said, "Well, honey, he's Cherokee,
0:34:06 > 0:34:11"don't pay any attention to that, he thinks he's talking to you."
0:34:11 > 0:34:13# Well, your pet name for me is Squaw
0:34:13 > 0:34:16# When you come home a-drinkin' and can barely crawl
0:34:16 > 0:34:19# And all that lovin' on me won't make things right
0:34:21 > 0:34:23# Well, you're leavin' me at home to keep the teepee clean
0:34:23 > 0:34:26# A-six papooses to break and wean
0:34:26 > 0:34:31# Well, your squaw is on the warpath tonight
0:34:31 > 0:34:34# Well, I found out, a-big brave chief
0:34:34 > 0:34:37# The game you were huntin' for ain't beef
0:34:37 > 0:34:42# Get offa my huntin' grounds and get outta my sight
0:34:42 > 0:34:44# This-a war dance I'm doin' means I'm fightin' mad
0:34:44 > 0:34:47# You don't need no more of what you've already had
0:34:47 > 0:34:50# Your squaw is on the warpath tonight. #
0:34:53 > 0:34:57A lot of those songs, from back then,
0:34:57 > 0:34:59they were quintessential country songs,
0:34:59 > 0:35:01in that they were about...
0:35:03 > 0:35:08..hard-living men and women who kept the home fires burning and...
0:35:08 > 0:35:12weren't going to put up with no cheating and you know, that was....
0:35:12 > 0:35:14I'm a little sad that we're so...
0:35:14 > 0:35:17We're so kind of...
0:35:19 > 0:35:20..cosmopolitan now
0:35:20 > 0:35:22that we don't write about
0:35:22 > 0:35:24relationships in that way.
0:35:24 > 0:35:29But that was the nuts and bolts of country -
0:35:29 > 0:35:32drinking songs and cheating songs...
0:35:32 > 0:35:34and she was a spitfire.
0:35:36 > 0:35:38# Who's the sorry so and so
0:35:38 > 0:35:42# Responsible for what I'm goin' through?
0:35:42 > 0:35:43# It's lyin', cheatin'
0:35:43 > 0:35:44# Woman-chasin'
0:35:44 > 0:35:46# Honky-tonkin'
0:35:46 > 0:35:48# Whiskey-drinkin' you
0:35:48 > 0:35:50# It's lyin', cheatin'
0:35:50 > 0:35:51# Woman-chasin'
0:35:51 > 0:35:53# Honky-tonkin'
0:35:53 > 0:35:55# Whiskey-drinkin' you. #
0:35:58 > 0:36:00CHEERING
0:36:00 > 0:36:02If you write about what's happening,
0:36:02 > 0:36:04it don't hurt as bad,
0:36:04 > 0:36:06it don't bother you as much.
0:36:06 > 0:36:08Or that's how it does me.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11I don't know how anybody else does it but that's the way I do it.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15I need to write.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18A good story - we couldn't eat till Dad come home,
0:36:18 > 0:36:21and we had to be in bed at nine o'clock on a school night so...
0:36:23 > 0:36:26There wasn't microwaves and stuff back then.
0:36:27 > 0:36:28Seven o'clock, no Dad.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Eight o'clock, no Dad.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Mama kept putting the food back in.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36Finally, nine o'clock he comes in just shit-faced.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Mama always had a big ol' yellow bean bowl, you know,
0:36:38 > 0:36:41beans and ham hock, then she'd cook chicken and stuff.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44Well, did y'all go in the big house?
0:36:44 > 0:36:46All right, where the old kitchen is in there,
0:36:46 > 0:36:49that big table and them big sliding windows and doors.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51He comes in and Mama gets all us up.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Boy, she's running around there
0:36:53 > 0:36:56waiting on all the kids and the food went one way and come around -
0:36:56 > 0:36:58what you put on your plate, you had to eat it.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00Mama made Dad's plate and, as quick as she made it,
0:37:00 > 0:37:03he just fell over in it.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06She was so mad cos she'd been cooking it.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09She took that bowl of hot beans, just poured it on his head.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12Well, we all scattered cos we know the shit hit the fan.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14He don't even wake up.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17So, the girls go on upstairs and go to bed,
0:37:17 > 0:37:20and me and Jack, we're over by the fireplace waiting.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23And about 11, 11.30, here, he comes to.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25That bowl of beans has done dried on his head,
0:37:25 > 0:37:27they're in his ears, his eyeballs.
0:37:27 > 0:37:31He took that bowl and throwed it through that double-sliding window.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34Busted it all out, took a chair and throwed it through the other window
0:37:34 > 0:37:36and he was wrestling that big, old table
0:37:36 > 0:37:38and he couldn't get her done, you know.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40He couldn't get it lifted up to get it gone.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43And we're...! He's chasing us around the fireplace,
0:37:43 > 0:37:46and them beans and stuff's all in his ears and head.
0:37:50 > 0:37:52# Well, I'm at home a-working And a-slaving this way
0:37:52 > 0:37:54# You're out a-misbehaving
0:37:54 > 0:37:56# Spending all of your pay
0:37:56 > 0:38:01# On wine, women and song... #
0:38:01 > 0:38:04She has never been afraid to speak her mind.
0:38:04 > 0:38:07She's... You know, she...
0:38:07 > 0:38:09Say what you will, but she's a feminist.
0:38:09 > 0:38:12She was when...
0:38:12 > 0:38:19And she made it OK for other women to go, "Yeah!"
0:38:20 > 0:38:23I don't know, but that's, you know, that's...
0:38:23 > 0:38:24That's the way movements start.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28# You wined me and dined me
0:38:28 > 0:38:30# When I was your girl
0:38:31 > 0:38:34# Promised if I'd be your wife
0:38:34 > 0:38:36# You'd show me the world
0:38:36 > 0:38:42# All I've seen of this old world is a bed and a doctor bill
0:38:42 > 0:38:45# I'm tearin' down your brooder house
0:38:45 > 0:38:49# Cos now I've got the pill
0:38:49 > 0:38:52# This old maternity dress I've got
0:38:52 > 0:38:55# Is goin' in the garbage
0:38:55 > 0:38:57# The clothes I'm wearin' from now on
0:38:57 > 0:39:01# Won't take up so much yardage
0:39:02 > 0:39:04# Mini skirts, hot pants
0:39:04 > 0:39:07# And a few little fancy frills
0:39:07 > 0:39:10# Yeah, I'm makin' up for all those years
0:39:10 > 0:39:13# Since I've got the pill. #
0:39:13 > 0:39:16The Pill was banned, but they started...
0:39:16 > 0:39:19When it hit the charts, they had to take it out of being banned
0:39:19 > 0:39:21and play it, you know.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24Everybody had to play it when it was on the charts.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27She's got her own style of writing
0:39:27 > 0:39:28because she writes backwards.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30She sort of writes with a double chorus.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34There's not just one chorus...
0:39:34 > 0:39:37per se, when you listen to her songs, there's like two choruses.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39And she starts sort off with the second one,
0:39:39 > 0:39:42and then finishes, comes back and writes the first part of the chorus
0:39:42 > 0:39:44and then goes back and starts writing the verses
0:39:44 > 0:39:45and the story to get to it.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47Let's say Fist City for example.
0:39:47 > 0:39:49The beginning of that chorus starts off,
0:39:49 > 0:39:51# If you don't want to go to Fist City
0:39:51 > 0:39:53# You better detour around my town. #
0:39:53 > 0:39:55Now is this a verse or is this a chorus?
0:39:55 > 0:39:57Nobody writes like this.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59# Cos I'll grab you by the hair o' the head,
0:39:59 > 0:40:01# And I'll pick you off of the ground. #
0:40:01 > 0:40:03That's the first part of the chorus, and then it's...
0:40:03 > 0:40:05# I ain't saying my baby's a saint, cos he ain't.... #
0:40:05 > 0:40:07I mean, that's just a weird way of writing
0:40:07 > 0:40:09that you don't see other people do.
0:40:09 > 0:40:13To me, she started with the second part, and worked back around or...
0:40:13 > 0:40:14And interchanged those,
0:40:14 > 0:40:18but just to have that two existing parts right there
0:40:18 > 0:40:20that have nothing to do with the verses of the song,
0:40:20 > 0:40:22that's really complicated to do.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24You couldn't really sit down and do that.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26A really trained professional songwriter,
0:40:26 > 0:40:29it'd be very hard for them to pull off, but it's just natural to her.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31# Oh, you've been makin' your brags around town
0:40:31 > 0:40:33# That you've been a lovin' my man
0:40:33 > 0:40:36# But the man I love, when he picks up trash
0:40:36 > 0:40:39# He puts it in a garbage can
0:40:39 > 0:40:41# That's what you look like to me
0:40:41 > 0:40:44# And what I see's a pity
0:40:44 > 0:40:47# You better close your face and stay outta my way
0:40:47 > 0:40:49# If you don't wanna go to Fist City. #
0:40:50 > 0:40:52Well, Fist City, I wrote about an old gal
0:40:52 > 0:40:55that was trying to take Doo away from me.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57"You've been making your brags around town
0:40:57 > 0:40:59"that you've been loving my man.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01"The man I love, when he picks up trash,
0:41:01 > 0:41:02"he puts it in a garbage can."
0:41:02 > 0:41:05I didn't cover her one bit that was good.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08Everything I wrote about her was bad.
0:41:08 > 0:41:10# If you don't wanna go to Fist City
0:41:10 > 0:41:13# You better detour around my town
0:41:13 > 0:41:16# Cos I'll grab you by the hair o' the head
0:41:16 > 0:41:20# And I'll lift you off of the ground
0:41:20 > 0:41:23# I'm not a sayin' my baby's a saint cos he ain't
0:41:23 > 0:41:26# And that he won't cat around with a kitty
0:41:26 > 0:41:28# I'm here to tell you, gal, to lay off my man
0:41:28 > 0:41:31# If you don't wanna go to Fist City. #
0:41:31 > 0:41:33- INTERVIEWER: - There's a lot of bad marriages,
0:41:33 > 0:41:36bad behaviour, all that stuff, in the singing,
0:41:36 > 0:41:39and yet, it's, like, really fun with the country music.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42Have you ever been divorced?
0:41:43 > 0:41:45It's no fun. No fun.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48Yeah, it's hard to find anything funny
0:41:48 > 0:41:50and entertaining about it,
0:41:50 > 0:41:52but country music seems to.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56You know, we all have gone through, you know...
0:41:56 > 0:41:59difficult things and times, and if you can look back on it
0:41:59 > 0:42:02and laugh about it, joke about it,
0:42:02 > 0:42:05you're better off, I think.
0:42:05 > 0:42:06You ever hear of a guy named Seneca?
0:42:06 > 0:42:09Senaca? Seneca?
0:42:09 > 0:42:11He said that,
0:42:11 > 0:42:13"You should look upon death and comedy
0:42:13 > 0:42:15"with the same countenance",
0:42:15 > 0:42:18which makes a lot of sense.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21# Well, I look out the window and what do I see?
0:42:21 > 0:42:24# The breeze is a blowin' the leaves from the trees
0:42:24 > 0:42:26# Everything is free
0:42:27 > 0:42:30# Everything but me
0:42:31 > 0:42:35# I'm gonna take this chain from around my finger
0:42:35 > 0:42:39# And throw it just as far as I can sling her
0:42:39 > 0:42:42# Cos I wanna be free. #
0:42:42 > 0:42:45I was on the road like Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47I'd get home probably Monday...
0:42:47 > 0:42:51sometime and I'd spend Tuesday, Wednesday here
0:42:51 > 0:42:54and get ready to leave out on Thursday.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56Sometimes, if I worked clubs,
0:42:56 > 0:42:58I did two to three shows a night.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday... I did it all week long.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07She was working quite a few days back then.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09We was on the road quite a bit.
0:43:09 > 0:43:12Was doing 500, 600, 700 hundred miles every night,
0:43:12 > 0:43:14so we travelled all night.
0:43:14 > 0:43:17I mean, she was doing about 200 concerts a year.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19We was all over the Midwest.
0:43:19 > 0:43:22I think we went to California that first year I was with her.
0:43:22 > 0:43:26We went all... We went from border to border, coast to coast,
0:43:26 > 0:43:27Canada and everything.
0:43:27 > 0:43:2920-something years.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31Covered some miles.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33Probably two to eight million maybe.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36She toured, probably,
0:43:36 > 0:43:38over 200 days a year
0:43:38 > 0:43:40and there would be months...
0:43:41 > 0:43:43..that we didn't get to see her.
0:43:43 > 0:43:44I mean, can you imagine?
0:43:44 > 0:43:46I have to... You know,
0:43:46 > 0:43:48I have five kids
0:43:48 > 0:43:51and it wasn't until I became a mother,
0:43:51 > 0:43:52that I realised...
0:43:56 > 0:43:58..what a sacrifice my mom made...
0:44:00 > 0:44:03..to make life better for us, you know?
0:44:03 > 0:44:05It was a big sacrifice for a woman.
0:44:06 > 0:44:08It was just always that way.
0:44:10 > 0:44:13One of the startling things is that you...
0:44:13 > 0:44:16As a child, you don't even know, you know.
0:44:16 > 0:44:18You don't realise, this is the way it is.
0:44:18 > 0:44:19We were just around Dad so much
0:44:19 > 0:44:23because Mom would be gone for a month, maybe a month and a half.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25And you know, children change and...
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Well, Mom would call us Twin,
0:44:27 > 0:44:30and Mom swears that that's not true,
0:44:30 > 0:44:33but Mom would have to have you turn around and look at you
0:44:33 > 0:44:35and then she could tell you apart.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38But when you're running to the bus or whatever, she would call us Twin.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40So, we had no name.
0:44:40 > 0:44:41"Come here, Twin."
0:44:41 > 0:44:43And, oh,
0:44:43 > 0:44:45that would just infuriate
0:44:45 > 0:44:46my sister and I, you know.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49"We ain't a twin. We ain't twins."
0:44:49 > 0:44:51And Dad would always cover for us
0:44:51 > 0:44:53cos me and Patsy would smart off going, you know,
0:44:53 > 0:44:55"Don't call us twin," kind of thing.
0:44:55 > 0:44:59And Dad would like, "Y'all don't talk to your mother like that."
0:45:01 > 0:45:05Oh, yes, when the babies were little, it really tore me up,
0:45:05 > 0:45:06but what could I do?
0:45:06 > 0:45:10I had to make a living, had to feed them, you know.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12And we bought this place and we had to pay for it -
0:45:12 > 0:45:15so I wasn't going to pay for it by not working.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19# Like so many other hearts
0:45:21 > 0:45:24# Mine wanted to be free
0:45:25 > 0:45:28# I've been out here every day
0:45:29 > 0:45:31# Since you've been away from me
0:45:33 > 0:45:37# My reflection in the mirror
0:45:37 > 0:45:40# It's such a hurtful sight
0:45:40 > 0:45:45# Oh, I miss being Mrs tonight. #
0:45:48 > 0:45:51I started on the road with Mom when I was eight.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54I did my first album with Mom when I was seven.
0:45:54 > 0:45:56It was called...
0:45:56 > 0:45:57When I Hear My Children Pray.
0:45:57 > 0:45:59It was a gospel album.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01I did every album with Mom.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04# Somehow I can be useful
0:46:04 > 0:46:09# So put me to the test
0:46:09 > 0:46:13# I know I can't do very much
0:46:13 > 0:46:15# But, Lord, I'll do my best. #
0:46:16 > 0:46:18When I was 15,
0:46:18 > 0:46:21when I was a freshman in school,
0:46:21 > 0:46:23I was going on the summertime with her
0:46:23 > 0:46:26and I just quit school and started all the time.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29I knew how to count money
0:46:29 > 0:46:30so, hell, what was there left?
0:46:30 > 0:46:34You know? I didn't care nothing about algebra and all that stuff.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37Do you ever use algebra?
0:46:37 > 0:46:40Yes, proudly, I watched and listened
0:46:40 > 0:46:42To all he tried to say
0:46:42 > 0:46:47And it makes my heart just burst with pride
0:46:47 > 0:46:49When I hear my children pray...
0:46:49 > 0:46:53# But, Lord, I'll do my best. #
0:46:57 > 0:46:58Oh, I'll die when Mama dies.
0:46:58 > 0:47:00We done talked about it,
0:47:00 > 0:47:02they're going to have to bury us in the same hole,
0:47:02 > 0:47:05cos we been together ever since I was born, you know,
0:47:05 > 0:47:06we've always been together.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09Something happens to her, they might as well bury me, too.
0:47:09 > 0:47:13One year, Mom came home for a couple of weeks.
0:47:13 > 0:47:14In this kitchen...
0:47:14 > 0:47:18They'd just built and added on this kitchen
0:47:18 > 0:47:20and my mom was going to make dinner,
0:47:20 > 0:47:25which Patsy and I had never really seen her cook like this.
0:47:25 > 0:47:27So, she was going through the cabinets
0:47:27 > 0:47:28and she's looking for a pot,
0:47:28 > 0:47:30something to cook in,
0:47:30 > 0:47:31and a certain one,
0:47:31 > 0:47:33and she was all...
0:47:33 > 0:47:36All the drawers were pulled out here
0:47:36 > 0:47:41and she sits down in the middle of the floor and she said,
0:47:41 > 0:47:44"This is not my house. I don't live here.
0:47:44 > 0:47:46"I don't even know where my pots and pans are."
0:47:46 > 0:47:51And Patsy and I were so struck by this
0:47:51 > 0:47:52that we, you know...
0:47:52 > 0:47:54We've got every drawer open, everything going,
0:47:54 > 0:47:57"We'll find it! We'll find it!"
0:47:57 > 0:48:00But looking back, that was the moment
0:48:00 > 0:48:02that she realised that...
0:48:02 > 0:48:04her home's on wheels.
0:48:04 > 0:48:08# I miss being Mrs tonight
0:48:11 > 0:48:16# Oh, I miss being Mrs tonight. #
0:48:18 > 0:48:22But, in five minutes, Mom can get up off that floor
0:48:22 > 0:48:24and start all over again.
0:48:24 > 0:48:28She's very good at shaking it off and, in this business,
0:48:28 > 0:48:30you have to have that sort of...
0:48:30 > 0:48:32that sort of backbone to you.
0:48:36 > 0:48:41A lot of years through the '70s and '80s, we was gone 300 days a year.
0:48:41 > 0:48:42When Coal Miner's Daughter come out,
0:48:42 > 0:48:46we was gone for five years in a row - I mean, we was gone.
0:48:46 > 0:48:50We was in Vegas all the time and stuff, we was never home,
0:48:50 > 0:48:53and, you know, that's the key to marriage, right there.
0:48:53 > 0:48:55- INTERVIEWER:- Was that hard on you?
0:48:55 > 0:48:56No.
0:48:56 > 0:48:58- INTERVIEWER:- You liked the road. - Well, yeah.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01I did was when I was younger, you know. I had a lot of ideas then.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03- INTERVIEWER:- You get a lot of extra action, too.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05Oh, man, what you talking about?
0:49:05 > 0:49:08That's why I got six kids by six different women.
0:49:10 > 0:49:13# There's trouble in paradise
0:49:14 > 0:49:18# I can see it and I know the signs so well
0:49:18 > 0:49:22# I know he's out there and around it every day. #
0:49:22 > 0:49:26There was only one time in the '70s
0:49:26 > 0:49:28that I remember that Mom and Dad
0:49:28 > 0:49:30ever talked about a divorce, and...
0:49:32 > 0:49:36..it was the most devastating thing in the world for my father,
0:49:36 > 0:49:39you know...and for my mom.
0:49:39 > 0:49:41It just wasn't going to happen.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44I mean, they could talk all they wanted to, but you know...
0:49:44 > 0:49:47And it only lasted for a couple of weeks of that sort of behaviour
0:49:47 > 0:49:49and then it was, you know,
0:49:49 > 0:49:52they took off and were gone for a month,
0:49:52 > 0:49:54you know, and come back with that flushed "I love you" look.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57So, it's just the way it was.
0:49:57 > 0:49:59And as growing up like that,
0:49:59 > 0:50:00you also learned...
0:50:00 > 0:50:03people aren't disposable, you know.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06They're just... You fight for... You have to fight.
0:50:06 > 0:50:09You have to fight for things that are important.
0:50:09 > 0:50:13# Now I know about those devil women
0:50:17 > 0:50:22# They'll set your lover's head to spinning
0:50:25 > 0:50:27# And she's a demon
0:50:27 > 0:50:29# She wants control
0:50:29 > 0:50:33# But she ain't taking my man's soul
0:50:33 > 0:50:38# She ain't taking my man's soul. #
0:50:51 > 0:50:52# Hey, Louisiana woman
0:50:52 > 0:50:54# Mississippi man
0:50:54 > 0:50:56# We get together every time we can
0:50:56 > 0:50:58# The Mississippi River can't keep us apart
0:50:58 > 0:51:00# There's too much love in the Mississippi heart
0:51:00 > 0:51:04# Too much love in this Louisiana heart. #
0:51:04 > 0:51:07Everybody thought me and Conway had a thing going, you know,
0:51:07 > 0:51:10and that's the furthest from the truth.
0:51:10 > 0:51:13I loved Conway, as a friend,
0:51:13 > 0:51:15and my husband loved him.
0:51:15 > 0:51:17Conway was really the only one in the music business
0:51:17 > 0:51:19that Doo gave a dag-gone for.
0:51:19 > 0:51:20- INTERVIEWER:- Really?- Yeah.
0:51:20 > 0:51:22You'd hear him out, they'd be talking.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24You'd hear Conway just, "Ha-ha-ha."
0:51:24 > 0:51:27And I'd wonder, "What the heck is he laughing about?"
0:51:27 > 0:51:29And Doo'd be telling big jokes.
0:51:29 > 0:51:31Most of them lies.
0:51:31 > 0:51:34But he had him laughing all the time.
0:51:34 > 0:51:35# Hey, Louisiana woman
0:51:35 > 0:51:36# Mississippi man
0:51:36 > 0:51:38# We get together every time we can
0:51:38 > 0:51:41# The Mississippi River can't keep us apart
0:51:41 > 0:51:43# There's too much love in the Mississippi heart
0:51:43 > 0:51:45# Too much love in this Louisiana heart. #
0:51:45 > 0:51:48Doolittle found our first song that we recorded together -
0:51:48 > 0:51:50Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man.
0:51:50 > 0:51:53Doolittle found that while we were on tour, yeah.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58We come in and he had that going, he said, "I found you a hit song."
0:51:58 > 0:52:01And Conway said, "I believe you have."
0:52:01 > 0:52:04He looked at me and I said, "I think it is a hit."
0:52:04 > 0:52:05We cut it and it was a hit.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08When Conway and Loretta, that...
0:52:08 > 0:52:10Do-Do-Do...
0:52:10 > 0:52:14# Love is where you find it. #
0:52:14 > 0:52:17And when they're sitting there just doing those singing waves
0:52:17 > 0:52:19and everything together, same with Wynette-Jones,
0:52:19 > 0:52:22that's all of a sudden, man, it just crawls all over you
0:52:22 > 0:52:25and that's something I think you CAN'T get
0:52:25 > 0:52:28from one of them just doing it by themselves.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31# Love is where you find it
0:52:31 > 0:52:36# When you find no love at home
0:52:36 > 0:52:40# And there's nothin' cold as ashes
0:52:41 > 0:52:45# After the fire has gone. #
0:52:45 > 0:52:50She's performed countless hit songs over the years
0:52:50 > 0:52:56and she's done over 150 concerts a year for the last half decade.
0:52:56 > 0:52:58Hollywood can think of no better tribute
0:52:58 > 0:53:01than to make a movie about her life.
0:53:01 > 0:53:05Would you give a big, singing welcome to Loretta Lynn!
0:53:05 > 0:53:09APPLAUSE
0:53:09 > 0:53:12What's the movie going to be called? Coal Miner's Daughter?
0:53:12 > 0:53:15- Coal Miner's Daughter.- And that's going to star Sissy Spacek.- Right.
0:53:16 > 0:53:20It was before I had agreed to do the film, you know.
0:53:20 > 0:53:23I had never met her and she...
0:53:23 > 0:53:25She was...
0:53:25 > 0:53:30probably the most popular guest on the Tonight Show
0:53:30 > 0:53:31for many years.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34She was on at least once a month, maybe...
0:53:35 > 0:53:37Maybe twice a month,
0:53:37 > 0:53:42but she really did the television circuit a lot and...
0:53:42 > 0:53:44she would go on and say,
0:53:44 > 0:53:46"Yeah, little Sissy Spacek, she's going to play me."
0:53:46 > 0:53:48And I'd be watching, and I'm thinking...
0:53:48 > 0:53:51At that point, I thought...
0:53:51 > 0:53:53I had this bizarre idea
0:53:53 > 0:53:55that I made my own decisions.
0:53:55 > 0:53:57Well, that was before I met Loretta.
0:53:57 > 0:54:00She's written her autobiography, most interesting,
0:54:00 > 0:54:03called Coal Miner's Daughter. It's a great pleasure to have her here.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Would you welcome, please, Loretta Lynn?
0:54:05 > 0:54:07- I was reading your book this afternoon.- Oh, man.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09- No, it's a good book. - Well, thank you.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11Yeah, but I didn't realise that...
0:54:11 > 0:54:13you're a mother of six children.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15- Oh, yes.- Yeah, and started early.
0:54:15 > 0:54:16You're from where, originally, now?
0:54:16 > 0:54:18- Kentucky.- Kentucky.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21Yeah, I started real early, and I had...
0:54:21 > 0:54:22I mean, REAL early.
0:54:22 > 0:54:24Real early. I had four when I was 17.
0:54:24 > 0:54:25AUDIENCE GASPS
0:54:25 > 0:54:27That's starting early.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29It wasn't easy. LAUGHTER
0:54:29 > 0:54:31I had... I've got twins now.
0:54:31 > 0:54:32That makes me have six.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34When they started coming in pairs...
0:54:34 > 0:54:36LAUGHTER
0:54:36 > 0:54:38..I had my old man go get something done.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40LAUGHTER
0:54:40 > 0:54:42And since he got something done...
0:54:42 > 0:54:44See, I was afraid they was going to start coming in litters.
0:54:44 > 0:54:47LAUGHTER I didn't want that to happen.
0:54:47 > 0:54:49Well, there's Doolittle.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51Looking very spiffy.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53He's drunk there.
0:54:53 > 0:54:54THEY LAUGH
0:54:54 > 0:54:57- No, he's not, I don't think. - Was that...?
0:54:57 > 0:54:59That was at the party after the show.
0:54:59 > 0:55:01Doo's not feeling any pain there,
0:55:01 > 0:55:03I guarantee you.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05- When he gets on the mic... - He's giving a speech!
0:55:05 > 0:55:06..you know, he ain't feeling no pain.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09Hollywood bets £8.5 million
0:55:09 > 0:55:11on her remarkable life story.
0:55:11 > 0:55:12And that was a square deal.
0:55:12 > 0:55:14- Yep.- Oh, look.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17The Ryman.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20Look at that. Do you remember who pushed me out on the stage?
0:55:20 > 0:55:22- Uh-huh. Doolittle.- Yeah.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24Life imitating art.
0:55:29 > 0:55:32# Sometimes a man's caught lookin'
0:55:32 > 0:55:35- # At things that he don't need... # - APPLAUSE
0:55:35 > 0:55:37# He took a second look at you
0:55:37 > 0:55:40# But he's in love with me
0:55:40 > 0:55:43# Well, I don't know where that leaves you
0:55:43 > 0:55:46- # But I know where I stand - Sing it, Sissy.
0:55:46 > 0:55:52# Cos you ain't woman enough to take my man
0:55:52 > 0:55:54# Women like you they're a dime a dozen
0:55:54 > 0:55:56# You can buy 'em anywhere
0:55:56 > 0:55:59# For you to get to him I'd have to move over
0:55:59 > 0:56:02# And I'm gonna stand right here
0:56:02 > 0:56:04# It'll be over my dead body
0:56:04 > 0:56:07# So get out while you can
0:56:07 > 0:56:11# Cos you ain't woman enough to take my man
0:56:13 > 0:56:18# No, you ain't woman enough to take my man. #
0:56:20 > 0:56:24The Coal Miner's Daughter was a cultural event, as it were.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27You know, there was an attitude there from
0:56:27 > 0:56:29the kind of the coastal directors
0:56:29 > 0:56:31from Los Angeles or New York,
0:56:31 > 0:56:32a certain arrogance
0:56:32 > 0:56:35towards the subject matter.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37This was poor people, not very interesting people.
0:56:37 > 0:56:39They did do good music,
0:56:39 > 0:56:42but the roots of the music weren't that interesting.
0:56:42 > 0:56:44There hadn't been
0:56:44 > 0:56:47a really successful, popular/serious film
0:56:47 > 0:56:50about country music and this was it.
0:56:50 > 0:56:55I remember, one day, you said we were twins in another life.
0:56:55 > 0:56:56Probably were.
0:56:56 > 0:56:58I wonder if we'll ever know.
0:56:58 > 0:57:00Yeah, we'll know one day.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02- I love you.- I love you, too, honey.
0:57:05 > 0:57:07She's my sister.
0:57:16 > 0:57:19Thank you. Thank you very much.
0:57:19 > 0:57:21Thanks, Emmylou.
0:57:21 > 0:57:23This year, the Country Music Hall Of Fame
0:57:23 > 0:57:26honours one of the most admired women of our time
0:57:26 > 0:57:29and, because her music comes from the heart,
0:57:29 > 0:57:33she touched our very deepest, most personal emotions
0:57:33 > 0:57:35and became an inspiration for millions.
0:57:35 > 0:57:38She was born a coal miner's daughter,
0:57:38 > 0:57:41but she has become a country music legend.
0:57:41 > 0:57:42Ms Loretta Lynn!
0:57:42 > 0:57:45APPLAUSE
0:57:45 > 0:57:48# Well, I was borned a coal miner's daughter
0:57:49 > 0:57:54# In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler
0:57:56 > 0:57:59# We were poor but we had love
0:57:59 > 0:58:03# That's the one thing that daddy made sure of
0:58:03 > 0:58:07# He shovelled coal to make a poor man's dollar. #
0:58:12 > 0:58:14CHEERING
0:58:14 > 0:58:16All right, honey?
0:58:16 > 0:58:19- Oh, hi.- I'm so glad to see you.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21This is my baby, here.
0:58:21 > 0:58:23My mother's family and your...
0:58:23 > 0:58:25- And my family come from the same place.- Yep.
0:58:25 > 0:58:28Me and June Carter had to be close as sisters,
0:58:28 > 0:58:29but neither one of us knew that.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31Right across the mountains from each other,
0:58:31 > 0:58:33like 45 miles as a crow flies.
0:58:33 > 0:58:35- Yeah, just over the hill. - Just over the hill.
0:58:35 > 0:58:37We've had a lot of fun in the past little bit.
0:58:37 > 0:58:39We've recorded a lot of music together - you, I, and Patsy.
0:58:39 > 0:58:41- Me and him's done about 90 songs in the last year or so.- Yep.
0:58:41 > 0:58:43Yep, been working in the studio for a while,
0:58:43 > 0:58:46- so we recorded about 25 songs, something like that.- Yeah, we did.
0:58:46 > 0:58:49- Appalachian, just real pure acoustic instrumentation.- Right.
0:58:52 > 0:58:55# I never will marry
0:58:56 > 0:58:58# Nor be no man's wife
0:59:00 > 0:59:03# I expect to live single
0:59:04 > 0:59:07# All the days of my life
0:59:09 > 0:59:12# The storms and the ocean
0:59:13 > 0:59:14# Will be my deathbed
0:59:17 > 0:59:20# The fish in the water
0:59:21 > 0:59:24# Swim over my head
0:59:26 > 0:59:29# I never will marry
0:59:30 > 0:59:33# Nor be no man's wife
0:59:34 > 0:59:38# I expect to live single
0:59:39 > 0:59:42# All the days of my life. #
0:59:44 > 0:59:47The family has never really left Butcher Holler.
0:59:47 > 0:59:48We brought Butcher Holler with us.
0:59:48 > 0:59:51It is born in us here.
0:59:51 > 0:59:54We just created our own Butcher Holler
0:59:54 > 0:59:5660 miles West of Nashville, Tennessee.
0:59:56 > 0:59:58Hurricane Mills, 37078.
1:00:35 > 1:00:36When they bought the property,
1:00:36 > 1:00:39they didn't realise that a town came with it
1:00:39 > 1:00:42and a whole zip code and post office.
1:00:42 > 1:00:45It grew from her fans
1:00:45 > 1:00:47finding out where she lived
1:00:47 > 1:00:51and started coming to see Loretta Lynn's house.
1:00:51 > 1:00:54Not only were they coming to see Loretta Lynn's house,
1:00:54 > 1:00:56they were camping out on the side of the road.
1:00:56 > 1:00:58I can't stand the dude ranch part.
1:00:58 > 1:01:02Dad was just going to build a little camp ground for the fan club,
1:01:02 > 1:01:05when we had our fan club meeting every year.
1:01:06 > 1:01:07Yeah.
1:01:07 > 1:01:11Then she would add more and more attractions.
1:01:11 > 1:01:13They built a rodeo arena,
1:01:13 > 1:01:17and then, they built an entertainment pavilion.
1:01:17 > 1:01:19It's not one of the fancy theatres,
1:01:19 > 1:01:21but she don't want that here.
1:01:21 > 1:01:24It's still that down home,
1:01:24 > 1:01:27almost tent revival, family show kind of a feeling.
1:01:27 > 1:01:29Come as you are and you stay as long as you want,
1:01:29 > 1:01:32and just be yourself and have fun -
1:01:32 > 1:01:33and that's the way she likes it.
1:01:35 > 1:01:37Now we got Grand National Motocrosses,
1:01:37 > 1:01:38cross-country races.
1:01:38 > 1:01:41There's over a million people a year come through here.
1:01:41 > 1:01:45They had something they wanted to work towards together
1:01:45 > 1:01:48and they were the quintessential great partnership,
1:01:48 > 1:01:51because Dad did THIS very well,
1:01:51 > 1:01:53Mom did THIS very well,
1:01:53 > 1:01:56but when they came into each other's worlds,
1:01:56 > 1:01:57trying to, you know...
1:01:57 > 1:02:01Mom trying to play the farmwife,
1:02:01 > 1:02:02you know, kind of thing.
1:02:02 > 1:02:04She didn't fit into that.
1:02:04 > 1:02:07Dad, on the other hand, when he went out on the road with her,
1:02:07 > 1:02:08he hated it.
1:02:08 > 1:02:11So, Hurricane Mills became the project
1:02:11 > 1:02:14that both of them could come together on
1:02:14 > 1:02:17and have a really strong partnership
1:02:17 > 1:02:20because they needed each other
1:02:20 > 1:02:22to make the whole.
1:02:22 > 1:02:26I mean, they are two people that needed each other to make...
1:02:27 > 1:02:28..a legacy.
1:02:30 > 1:02:35# Yeah, I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter
1:02:36 > 1:02:41# I remember well, the well where I drew water
1:02:43 > 1:02:46# The work we done was hard
1:02:46 > 1:02:50# At night we'd sleep cos we were tired
1:02:50 > 1:02:54# I never thought of ever leaving Butcher Holler
1:02:56 > 1:03:01# Well, a lot of things have changed since way back then
1:03:03 > 1:03:07# And it's so good to be back home again
1:03:09 > 1:03:12# Not much left but the floor
1:03:13 > 1:03:15# Nothing lives here any more
1:03:16 > 1:03:21# Except the memories of a coal miner's daughter. #
1:03:25 > 1:03:28In Loretta's early years,
1:03:28 > 1:03:30she just gave and gave,
1:03:30 > 1:03:31and gave, and gave -
1:03:31 > 1:03:33and didn't know when to quit -
1:03:33 > 1:03:36and she gave so much of herself,
1:03:36 > 1:03:38she made herself so available,
1:03:38 > 1:03:41she would stay for years and years, and years, and years, and years.
1:03:41 > 1:03:43Decades.
1:03:43 > 1:03:47She stayed touring as much as she toured.
1:03:47 > 1:03:49Hundreds of days a year,
1:03:49 > 1:03:51several shows a day.
1:03:51 > 1:03:54She would stay hours after and sign autographs.
1:03:54 > 1:03:57I think people should be
1:03:57 > 1:03:59available to all the fans.
1:03:59 > 1:04:01They're the ones making them a living.
1:04:01 > 1:04:02Really.
1:04:02 > 1:04:03If they only think about it,
1:04:03 > 1:04:06they're the ones that comes out and sees you at the show,
1:04:06 > 1:04:09they buy your records, so why wouldn't you be nice to them?
1:04:09 > 1:04:11And... RUMBLING
1:04:11 > 1:04:14- ..what is that?- You can come inside.
1:04:16 > 1:04:19Hi, I was telling them y'all could say hello to Ms Loretta Lynn.
1:04:19 > 1:04:20Hi, Loretta.
1:04:20 > 1:04:21Hi there.
1:04:21 > 1:04:24- Hi.- Hi.- Hello.
1:04:24 > 1:04:26How yous doing?
1:04:26 > 1:04:27They're all from Canada, Mom.
1:04:27 > 1:04:28Oh, really?
1:04:28 > 1:04:31Well, I'm blessed to have you all, I'll tell you.
1:04:31 > 1:04:33So, they're all... There's a tour bus, Mom.
1:04:33 > 1:04:37- This is half of the group from the tour bus.- It is crazy.
1:04:37 > 1:04:40Now, we don't tour the upstairs, we still keep the upstairs private
1:04:40 > 1:04:42because it's all of our bedrooms,
1:04:42 > 1:04:44so we always say, if we want to come
1:04:44 > 1:04:46home, it's kind of cool,
1:04:46 > 1:04:48because this house has never changed.
1:04:48 > 1:04:49My mom and dad, when they moved out,
1:04:49 > 1:04:51they never took anything out of the house
1:04:51 > 1:04:54so it kind of sits frozen in time so, when we come back here...
1:04:54 > 1:04:57In fact, we were walking back in to get Mom's interviewer
1:04:57 > 1:04:59- and I said "Welcome home, Mother." - LAUGHTER
1:05:00 > 1:05:06ALL: # Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter,
1:05:06 > 1:05:10# In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler
1:05:12 > 1:05:15# We were poor but we had love
1:05:15 > 1:05:19# That's the one thing my daddy made sure of
1:05:19 > 1:05:25# He shovelled coal to make a poor man's dollar. #
1:05:25 > 1:05:27THEY LAUGH
1:05:27 > 1:05:29It's a long song.
1:05:29 > 1:05:32Look over here and sing me. Sing it, honey. You're doing good.
1:05:32 > 1:05:35It's just...I can't sing and look at you at the same time.
1:05:35 > 1:05:37LAUGHTER
1:05:37 > 1:05:40# I was born a coal miner's daughter
1:05:40 > 1:05:46ALL: # In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler
1:05:46 > 1:05:51# We were poor but we had love
1:05:51 > 1:05:54# That's the one thing my daddy made sure of
1:05:54 > 1:05:59# He shovelled coal to make a poor man's dollar. #
1:05:59 > 1:06:01Now don't cry when you're singing to me.
1:06:01 > 1:06:03Go ahead.
1:06:03 > 1:06:07INDISTINCT CHATTER
1:06:07 > 1:06:09Thank you, honey.
1:06:09 > 1:06:12- Hey, Patsy, wasn't she a good singer?- Ya-huh.
1:06:12 > 1:06:13Wasn't she a good singer?
1:06:13 > 1:06:14- Thank you.- Thank you.
1:06:16 > 1:06:17Thank all you people.
1:06:17 > 1:06:20I don't want to use the word "Redneck" or "Hillbilly"...
1:06:22 > 1:06:27..but I'm kind of proud to be both of those things.
1:06:27 > 1:06:29My parents brought those to us
1:06:29 > 1:06:32because both of them have those same qualities.
1:06:34 > 1:06:36But it's real, OK?
1:06:36 > 1:06:38There's nothing fake,
1:06:38 > 1:06:39there's nothing phony,
1:06:39 > 1:06:41there's nothing... There's...
1:06:41 > 1:06:44We don't care about...
1:06:46 > 1:06:49..how people perceive us.
1:06:49 > 1:06:51We're all really hard workers.
1:06:51 > 1:06:55Oh, yeah. We... Back when we had the plough and stuff, all this was corn,
1:06:55 > 1:06:57all this was... That's corn this year and soya beans.
1:06:57 > 1:07:00Me and my brother, we ploughed.
1:07:00 > 1:07:02We'd take... We'd work six hours at night
1:07:02 > 1:07:04and we'd get up and go to school.
1:07:04 > 1:07:06We'd work till midnight every night, ploughing and stuff.
1:07:06 > 1:07:08We worked just like everybody else had to because
1:07:08 > 1:07:11he'd tell you, "If you don't want to work, that's fine."
1:07:11 > 1:07:13You know, "Where your plate used to sit,
1:07:13 > 1:07:15"there'll be a hole in the table."
1:07:15 > 1:07:17If you didn't want to work, you don't eat.
1:07:17 > 1:07:20My brother works here on the farm,
1:07:20 > 1:07:22works on tractors... I mean,
1:07:22 > 1:07:25we're all mechanics, we're all cooks, we're all good mothers,
1:07:25 > 1:07:27we all know how to sew,
1:07:27 > 1:07:28PLUS, you know,
1:07:28 > 1:07:30we just happen to have enough money
1:07:30 > 1:07:34to do things we want to do if we want to do them, you know.
1:07:34 > 1:07:36It is... It's just...
1:07:36 > 1:07:38We can go have dinner at the White House,
1:07:38 > 1:07:42and we have, and then come back here and ride tractors
1:07:42 > 1:07:44and four-wheelers and you know,
1:07:44 > 1:07:46go mud-bogging, you know.
1:07:46 > 1:07:48It's just... Isn't it great?
1:07:48 > 1:07:49Oh.
1:07:49 > 1:07:52We're... We're sitting there at a dinner table at the White House.
1:07:52 > 1:07:54They're putting down the plates,
1:07:54 > 1:07:56and they're talking about the little White House insignia on it.
1:07:56 > 1:07:58She comes back from the bathroom,
1:07:58 > 1:08:00her daughters cannot keep her shoes on her, right?
1:08:00 > 1:08:02- And she's in the White House. - In a full ball gown.
1:08:02 > 1:08:04There's glitter everywhere.
1:08:04 > 1:08:06She sits down right next to me
1:08:06 > 1:08:07and there's this young boy,
1:08:07 > 1:08:10he looks like he's 12, rosy cheeks, got this little tie,
1:08:10 > 1:08:12and he's serving, and he's serving these biscuits,
1:08:12 > 1:08:15- remember these?- I do. - These little biscuits.
1:08:15 > 1:08:17And he gets to the right side of Ms Lynn...
1:08:19 > 1:08:22..and she uses the tie like a doorbell,
1:08:22 > 1:08:24and she just pulls him down,
1:08:24 > 1:08:27and she goes, "What is that?"
1:08:27 > 1:08:30He goes "Uh... That's... That's a flat biscuit, Ms Lynn."
1:08:30 > 1:08:32Swear she goes,
1:08:32 > 1:08:34"You tell those people in the back
1:08:34 > 1:08:37"if they add a little self-raising flour, that thing'll pop right up."
1:08:37 > 1:08:38SHE LAUGHS
1:08:38 > 1:08:40No kidding!
1:08:40 > 1:08:42The guy, sweet as he could be, "I will tell them, Ms Lynn."
1:08:42 > 1:08:45- He was fantastic.- And it was probably some kind of gourmet scone.
1:08:45 > 1:08:47I don't even know what it was exactly, but you know...
1:08:47 > 1:08:52It was like... I love her so much. She's just... She's just who she is.
1:08:52 > 1:08:54# I lie here all alone
1:08:55 > 1:08:59# In my bed of memories
1:08:59 > 1:09:03# I'm dreaming of your sweet kiss
1:09:03 > 1:09:08# Oh, how you loved on me... #
1:09:08 > 1:09:10My brother Jack was...
1:09:10 > 1:09:12He was a lot like my dad.
1:09:12 > 1:09:15My dad and my brother could not be in the same room
1:09:15 > 1:09:19for two minutes without fighting.
1:09:19 > 1:09:20And he couldn't sing.
1:09:20 > 1:09:23Just like my father, my brother Jack...
1:09:23 > 1:09:24He couldn't even hum in tune, OK?
1:09:24 > 1:09:27Or whistle. You didn't want to hear any of those things.
1:09:27 > 1:09:29He loved horses...
1:09:29 > 1:09:32and he loved the farm.
1:09:32 > 1:09:36Well, we was in Nebraska and...
1:09:36 > 1:09:39Jack worked here on the ranch with my dad and Mama got sick.
1:09:39 > 1:09:41We was coming home from Nebraska
1:09:41 > 1:09:44and we was in Mount Vernon, Illinois.
1:09:44 > 1:09:50And I was manager then and she was sick, so I put her in a hospital.
1:09:50 > 1:09:52She was in ICU, she's dehydrated.
1:09:52 > 1:09:54And I was sitting there with her
1:09:54 > 1:09:56and I sent the band home on the other bus
1:09:56 > 1:10:00and she told me in ICU, you know, there's no TV, nothing.
1:10:00 > 1:10:02You're just plugged in she said,
1:10:02 > 1:10:04"Something's the matter with Jack."
1:10:04 > 1:10:06I said, "Ain't nothing the matter with Jack, Mama,
1:10:06 > 1:10:07"he's at the ranch with Dad."
1:10:07 > 1:10:10"No, something's the matter with him." So, I said, "No."
1:10:10 > 1:10:12And you could only stay in there like 10 minutes.
1:10:12 > 1:10:15I went over to the little old hotel connected to the hospital
1:10:15 > 1:10:17and Dad called me that night...
1:10:17 > 1:10:18The next morning.
1:10:18 > 1:10:21He said, "I need some phone numbers."
1:10:21 > 1:10:23He said, "Jack didn't go home."
1:10:25 > 1:10:27So, him and Dad was fighting.
1:10:27 > 1:10:29Jack - "I quit and I'm taking my horse and stuff, I'm going home."
1:10:29 > 1:10:31Well, he didn't get home.
1:10:32 > 1:10:36So, me and Jack always had the same girlfriends, you know.
1:10:37 > 1:10:40And he said, "I need some phone numbers."
1:10:40 > 1:10:42I said, "I ain't... No, no, no, no."
1:10:42 > 1:10:44Jack was married.
1:10:44 > 1:10:47He said, "No, he didn't come home, just give me some numbers."
1:10:47 > 1:10:49I gave him a few numbers and stuff and...
1:10:49 > 1:10:53he called back he says, "He ain't at none of them."
1:10:53 > 1:10:56He said, "I've done called the rescue squad and stuff.
1:10:56 > 1:11:01"We found his horse... on the river bank," so...
1:11:01 > 1:11:03I didn't say nothing to Mom.
1:11:03 > 1:11:06Went back to the hospital, she said, "Something's wrong."
1:11:06 > 1:11:08She said, "I can just tell it."
1:11:08 > 1:11:11My father, they were in boats...
1:11:11 > 1:11:13with these nets
1:11:13 > 1:11:15and they were dragging the river...
1:11:15 > 1:11:18and the look on his face,
1:11:18 > 1:11:20my dad's face,
1:11:20 > 1:11:22looking at that water.
1:11:22 > 1:11:24I kept thinking, "Is that like a mirror of time?"
1:11:24 > 1:11:29Is every memory that he ever shared with his son,
1:11:29 > 1:11:31he's having to see that
1:11:31 > 1:11:34dragging this river, looking for his body.
1:11:34 > 1:11:38I was in the hospital, and they didn't tell me anything about it.
1:11:38 > 1:11:41And they looked for him for three days before they found him.
1:11:41 > 1:11:45And after they found him, they... Doo come and told me.
1:11:45 > 1:11:49He drove all the way to where I was at, down in Illinois somewhere.
1:11:49 > 1:11:51And told me Jack died.
1:11:51 > 1:11:53I couldn't believe that, but...
1:11:55 > 1:11:58..yeah, sometimes I know what going to happen.
1:11:58 > 1:12:01And we didn't work for almost three years...
1:12:02 > 1:12:05..and, it was real rough. It was bad.
1:12:05 > 1:12:08# Our blessed Father gives us life
1:12:08 > 1:12:11# Has the power to take it away
1:12:11 > 1:12:14# There's no reason for what he does
1:12:14 > 1:12:16# God makes no mistakes. #
1:12:26 > 1:12:28Dad became a binge drinker then
1:12:28 > 1:12:32so, for three months, he would drink every day,
1:12:32 > 1:12:35be drunk every day, you know, kind of thing.
1:12:35 > 1:12:39By the end of the day, he'd come in out of the field and...
1:12:39 > 1:12:40have to go to bed.
1:12:42 > 1:12:43So...
1:12:43 > 1:12:47And would tell you how ashamed he was.
1:12:47 > 1:12:50And for a child, for a young adult,
1:12:50 > 1:12:51for me, that was in...
1:12:51 > 1:12:54Horribly horrible to watch.
1:12:54 > 1:12:57And that's when my dad started having strokes and stuff,
1:12:57 > 1:13:00and we didn't know he was having mini strokes, we just thought...
1:13:00 > 1:13:03You know, he'd be talking just go off somewhere then come back again,
1:13:03 > 1:13:05but he'd had like 15, 20 mini strokes.
1:13:07 > 1:13:10Staying off as long as I did, like six years, you know,
1:13:10 > 1:13:11taking care of Doo.
1:13:11 > 1:13:14Yeah, I didn't go out and sing.
1:13:14 > 1:13:17I felt that I was the one supposed to take care of him, and I did.
1:13:19 > 1:13:21But I sat and watched them take one leg off
1:13:21 > 1:13:23and then the other leg off, and that was hard.
1:13:23 > 1:13:26That was so hard because he loved to farm.
1:13:26 > 1:13:30And I knew that he wouldn't be working any more, that bothered me.
1:13:35 > 1:13:36Two days before Dad died...
1:13:36 > 1:13:39He never admitted to nothing, ever.
1:13:39 > 1:13:42He said, "I don't give a damn if you get caught in the bed with her,
1:13:42 > 1:13:43"it ain't you."
1:13:43 > 1:13:47He said, "If you leave that little bit of doubt,
1:13:47 > 1:13:51"it's always in her mind, it might not be you."
1:13:51 > 1:13:53Me and Mama sitting over and talking to him
1:13:53 > 1:13:55and his lungs kept filling up and stuff.
1:13:55 > 1:13:57He was sitting there and
1:13:57 > 1:13:59laying in the bed,
1:13:59 > 1:14:00and me and Mom was talking to him.
1:14:00 > 1:14:02He still had good sense about him and stuff,
1:14:02 > 1:14:05but his lungs kept... They weren't taking the fluid.
1:14:05 > 1:14:06He just drowned in his lungs, you know.
1:14:06 > 1:14:09Heart failure's what they call it.
1:14:09 > 1:14:11And he looked up at Mom and says,
1:14:11 > 1:14:13"Loretta, I just want to let you know,
1:14:13 > 1:14:16"you're the only woman I've ever slept with."
1:14:16 > 1:14:18Hell, I, like, spit my implants out.
1:14:20 > 1:14:23I had... Hell, I turned round and hauled ass in the bedroom,
1:14:23 > 1:14:25and I'm just dying laughing.
1:14:25 > 1:14:27I said, "The old son of a bitch ain't going to give it up."
1:14:27 > 1:14:30Mama come in the bedroom, "Did you hear that shit?"
1:14:30 > 1:14:33I said, "I heard it, I heard it."
1:14:33 > 1:14:35She said, "He's going to stick to it, ain't he?"
1:14:35 > 1:14:38I said, "You've got to give him credit for one thing,
1:14:38 > 1:14:41"he ain't never admitted to shit and never will." And he didn't.
1:14:41 > 1:14:44# God knows he wasn't perfect
1:14:44 > 1:14:47# But then again nobody is
1:14:50 > 1:14:53# He always told me the truth
1:14:54 > 1:14:59# No matter how hard it was to hear
1:15:00 > 1:15:03# When he said, "I believe in you"
1:15:04 > 1:15:07# That was music to my ears
1:15:10 > 1:15:13# Oh, each word's like a note
1:15:13 > 1:15:15# Like a beautiful tune
1:15:16 > 1:15:20# The kind that inspires and helps you get through
1:15:21 > 1:15:24# Oh, if I said, "I can't"
1:15:24 > 1:15:27# He said, "You can"
1:15:27 > 1:15:29# He was my toughest critic
1:15:29 > 1:15:33# Oh, and my biggest fan
1:15:33 > 1:15:38# Now, he's gone to a distant shore
1:15:40 > 1:15:43# And I can't hear the music any more
1:15:47 > 1:15:49# I can't hear the music... #
1:15:59 > 1:16:03APPLAUSE
1:16:11 > 1:16:14# I called up the salesman, he said, "Come on in"
1:16:14 > 1:16:17# "I've got that Lincoln right here, belonged to Loretta Lynn"
1:16:17 > 1:16:20# "The coal miner's daughter used to drive it to town
1:16:20 > 1:16:23# "It's yours for a song and 500 down"
1:16:23 > 1:16:26# He said, "It's yours for a song and 500 down..."
1:16:26 > 1:16:30# Well, I throwed my old guitar in that big back-seat
1:16:30 > 1:16:33# And I steered her on out on to Dameron Street
1:16:33 > 1:16:36# Them other cars pulled over like the Red Sea partin'
1:16:36 > 1:16:39# It was then I had a vision of Dolly Parton
1:16:39 > 1:16:42# Right then and there he had a vision of Dolly Parton. #
1:16:42 > 1:16:43You remember this one we wrote?
1:16:43 > 1:16:46I'm More Alone When I'm With You Than I Am When I'm Alone.
1:16:46 > 1:16:48That's the one that I threw at you, remember?
1:16:48 > 1:16:50I wrote on and wrote on, and wrote on,
1:16:50 > 1:16:52and never could write it.
1:16:52 > 1:16:55I handed it to him and he had it wrote in a few minutes.
1:16:55 > 1:17:00You know, the first day we sat down to write, several years ago,
1:17:00 > 1:17:02you were just reading off all these song titles,
1:17:02 > 1:17:05and thoughts and ideas you had, and I remember you were...
1:17:05 > 1:17:08One was like, "Between a rock and a hard place."
1:17:08 > 1:17:09There's all kinds of...
1:17:09 > 1:17:11You had like several different,
1:17:11 > 1:17:14you were just spitting them out and I said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa."
1:17:14 > 1:17:15You said, "I'm..."
1:17:15 > 1:17:17You stopped me when I got to a title you wanted to write, that's it.
1:17:17 > 1:17:19I'm Dying For Someone To Live For.
1:17:19 > 1:17:21- Yeah, I'm Dying For Someone To Live For.- And that's the first one.
1:17:21 > 1:17:24- I listened to that the other day. - You did?- It's really good.
1:17:24 > 1:17:28# Loneliness falls all around
1:17:28 > 1:17:32# And it's almost got me down
1:17:33 > 1:17:37# Well, I guess when it rains, it pours
1:17:38 > 1:17:42# I'm dying for someone to live for. #
1:17:42 > 1:17:45Let's look through some of your scraps and see what you got,
1:17:45 > 1:17:47maybe we'll write us one here on the spot.
1:17:47 > 1:17:50- Do you want to see what I wrote on that?- Yeah, let's see that.
1:17:50 > 1:17:51What is that?
1:17:53 > 1:17:56That's probably all I had to write on when I wrote it.
1:17:58 > 1:18:00Wow. I'm Dying For Someone To Live For.
1:18:00 > 1:18:02"Give a man a free hand and he'll put it all over you."
1:18:02 > 1:18:03Yeah.
1:18:03 > 1:18:05That's the truth.
1:18:05 > 1:18:08- "Give a man a free hand and he'll put it all over you."- Yeah.
1:18:08 > 1:18:10You were probably riding down the road
1:18:10 > 1:18:12- at 90 miles and hour in a bus... - Writing that, yeah.
1:18:12 > 1:18:14..and that thing bouncing all over the place
1:18:14 > 1:18:17- while you're trying to scratch this stuff off.- That's probably it.
1:18:17 > 1:18:19- In the middle of the night. - Yeah. Portland, Oregon -
1:18:19 > 1:18:21that's the one you did with Jack White.
1:18:21 > 1:18:23Yeah, me and Jack White cut this.
1:18:23 > 1:18:25You wrote that a long time before you met Jack.
1:18:25 > 1:18:27Oh, yeah, a long time...
1:18:27 > 1:18:29before I met Jack.
1:18:34 > 1:18:37# Well, Portland, Oregon and sloe gin fizz
1:18:37 > 1:18:39# If that ain't love, then tell me what is,
1:18:39 > 1:18:43# Uh-huh, uh-huh
1:18:44 > 1:18:46# Well, I lost my heart
1:18:46 > 1:18:47# It didn't take no time
1:18:47 > 1:18:49# But that ain't all
1:18:49 > 1:18:51# I lost my mind in Oregon
1:18:54 > 1:18:57# In a booth in the corner with the lights down low
1:18:57 > 1:19:00# I was movin' in fast, she was takin' it slow
1:19:00 > 1:19:03# Uh-huh, uh-huh. #
1:19:03 > 1:19:06The first exposure to Loretta's music was from the movie
1:19:06 > 1:19:08Coal Miner's Daughter when I was a kid,
1:19:08 > 1:19:10probably six or seven or something like that.
1:19:10 > 1:19:11And when we were in the White Stripes,
1:19:11 > 1:19:13Meg and I both loved Loretta.
1:19:13 > 1:19:16We listened to her all the time when we were on tour in the van.
1:19:16 > 1:19:18That was one of our go-to records,
1:19:18 > 1:19:20was the Loretta Lynn box set,
1:19:20 > 1:19:23we had bought the box set so we were listening to all the CDs.
1:19:23 > 1:19:27We thought, you know, "We should really dedicate this album to her."
1:19:27 > 1:19:29And we did. And we just thought that would be the end of it.
1:19:29 > 1:19:31It was just a nice thank you to her
1:19:31 > 1:19:34for her influence on us over the years...
1:19:35 > 1:19:39..but Loretta wrote us a letter that word got to her about that
1:19:39 > 1:19:40and she wrote us a letter and said,
1:19:40 > 1:19:43"That was really nice of you and I'd love for you to come
1:19:43 > 1:19:45"and I'll cook you dinner sometime."
1:19:45 > 1:19:48Something like that, and I had the letter framed at my house when I...
1:19:48 > 1:19:51It was one of the first things I ever framed as an adult...
1:19:51 > 1:19:54thinking, "I'm never going to actually meet Loretta Lynn."
1:19:54 > 1:19:57I just thought it was a nice gesture of hers.
1:19:57 > 1:19:59But she did invite us down for dinner.
1:19:59 > 1:20:03We did go down there and it was pretty amazing that...
1:20:03 > 1:20:06She was super nice and she gave Meg a...
1:20:06 > 1:20:08She went up in the attic and got a dress for Meg,
1:20:08 > 1:20:10a red dress for her and gave it to her.
1:20:10 > 1:20:13# Well, I looked at him and caught him lookin' at me
1:20:13 > 1:20:17# I knew right then we were playin' free in Oregon... #
1:20:19 > 1:20:22Patsy, her daughter, had mentioned that
1:20:22 > 1:20:24they were going to maybe make a new record
1:20:24 > 1:20:25and I said, "Wow, really?"
1:20:25 > 1:20:27And I was just kind of eating and saying,
1:20:27 > 1:20:29"Well, you know, if you ever need a producer,
1:20:29 > 1:20:30"I'll throw my hat in the ring."
1:20:30 > 1:20:33Thinking, "They're never going to let me produce her record,"
1:20:33 > 1:20:35because I'm not a producer on a level like...
1:20:35 > 1:20:37That they would know about or care about.
1:20:37 > 1:20:39I produce like garage rock records
1:20:39 > 1:20:41that 500 people had heard of, or something.
1:20:41 > 1:20:43Oh, yeah, Van Lear Rose was great.
1:20:45 > 1:20:47The only thing...
1:20:47 > 1:20:50- We paid for that album...- Yeah.
1:20:50 > 1:20:51..and...
1:20:54 > 1:20:57..it appeals to a certain crowd.
1:20:57 > 1:21:00It don't appeal to the old country people.
1:21:00 > 1:21:02So, it didn't sell that good.
1:21:02 > 1:21:04They got a Grammy for it,
1:21:04 > 1:21:08but still, that don't make up for the sale of the album...
1:21:08 > 1:21:12cos it cost a lot of money to make an album now.
1:21:12 > 1:21:14# Woman, you don't know me
1:21:14 > 1:21:17# But you can bet that I know you
1:21:19 > 1:21:24# Everybody in this whole darn town knows you, too
1:21:26 > 1:21:34# I brought along our little babies cos I wanted them to see
1:21:35 > 1:21:40# The woman that's burnin' down our family tree. #
1:21:42 > 1:21:44"I brought along our little babies..."
1:21:44 > 1:21:46And something, something, too.
1:21:46 > 1:21:48And she says to the girl...
1:21:48 > 1:21:51She says, "I brought along our little babies
1:21:51 > 1:21:53"and the bills that's overdue."
1:21:53 > 1:21:56"The job you're workin' - Lord, we need money too."
1:21:56 > 1:22:00I couldn't believe what she talked... I'm telling you, man.
1:22:00 > 1:22:02It's... As a songwriter, you're just like...
1:22:02 > 1:22:04It blows your mind when someone else cares so much
1:22:04 > 1:22:07about the little detail of it,
1:22:07 > 1:22:09and she was saying,
1:22:09 > 1:22:12"Brought along our little babies and our bills that are overdue,
1:22:12 > 1:22:16"the job you're workin' - Lord, we need money too."
1:22:16 > 1:22:19# I brought along his old dog Charlie
1:22:19 > 1:22:23# And the bills that's overdue
1:22:24 > 1:22:26# The work you're doing
1:22:26 > 1:22:29# Lord, we need money, too. #
1:22:29 > 1:22:32She turned to me and said, "You know what I'm saying, right?
1:22:32 > 1:22:34"I'm sayin' she's a whore."
1:22:38 > 1:22:40At that instant, you're like, I thought for a second...
1:22:40 > 1:22:44You mean, she's just being very light on it, like, I don't...
1:22:44 > 1:22:47"I'm not getting deep on this, I'm just calling her an evil name."
1:22:47 > 1:22:50She didn't mean that, she meant she's actually a working prostitute.
1:22:50 > 1:22:52"The job you're working, we need money too."
1:22:52 > 1:22:54So, if you're going to be a whore,
1:22:54 > 1:22:56give us some of your whore money to pay our bills.
1:22:56 > 1:22:59That's how deep she was on that lyric,
1:22:59 > 1:23:01that I'm sure just flies right by anyone
1:23:01 > 1:23:03who would listen to that song.
1:23:03 > 1:23:05# ..Bring out the baby's daddy,
1:23:06 > 1:23:09# That's who they've come to see
1:23:10 > 1:23:15# Not the woman that's burnin' down our family tree
1:23:17 > 1:23:25# No, not the woman that's burnin' down our family tree. #
1:23:29 > 1:23:32And what's really made it so beautiful and magical,
1:23:32 > 1:23:33and lasted this long
1:23:33 > 1:23:36is how brilliant she is underneath all that.
1:23:36 > 1:23:39There's a layer underneath that supports all that
1:23:39 > 1:23:41and, if you really dig deep into the lyrics,
1:23:41 > 1:23:44you realise that she's way far ahead of you.
1:23:45 > 1:23:47# Starts with a G
1:23:48 > 1:23:50# When I hold it in my hands
1:23:52 > 1:23:57# Whispered, "And you ain't woman enough to take my man"
1:23:59 > 1:24:02# Pulling me back
1:24:02 > 1:24:05# Down an old Kentucky hole
1:24:06 > 1:24:09# A little girl sitting on her front porch, picking
1:24:09 > 1:24:12# Pouring out her soul
1:24:12 > 1:24:16# And little did she know
1:24:16 > 1:24:20# All the secrets it was going to hold
1:24:20 > 1:24:25# This Epiphone guitar my memaw gave to me
1:24:25 > 1:24:28# When I pick up
1:24:28 > 1:24:31# I just feel the melody
1:24:31 > 1:24:32# Her ins and outs
1:24:32 > 1:24:34# Her ups and downs
1:24:34 > 1:24:37# Are the stories that it sings
1:24:37 > 1:24:40# And I get to be the one
1:24:41 > 1:24:45# Unwinding the strings
1:24:48 > 1:24:51# Oh, when I reach for the C
1:24:51 > 1:24:54# The words that I find
1:24:54 > 1:24:58# Are "Don't come home a drinkin' with lovin' on your mind"
1:25:00 > 1:25:04# Leading me on to the Grand Ole Opry stage
1:25:06 > 1:25:12# Heartbeat racing and the house lights raining kisses on my face
1:25:12 > 1:25:18# Who'd have thought I would be standing where she stood?
1:25:18 > 1:25:23# Playing this Epiphone guitar my memaw gave to me
1:25:24 > 1:25:27# When I pick it up
1:25:27 > 1:25:30# I just feel the melody
1:25:30 > 1:25:31# Her ins and outs
1:25:31 > 1:25:33# Her ups and down
1:25:33 > 1:25:35# Are the stories that it sings
1:25:35 > 1:25:38# And I get to be the one
1:25:40 > 1:25:45# Unwinding the strings
1:25:47 > 1:25:52# From the hands of a girl from Butcher Holler
1:25:52 > 1:25:58# To the hands of a coal miner's great-granddaughter
1:26:12 > 1:26:17# This Epiphone guitar my memaw gave to me
1:26:17 > 1:26:20# When I pick it up... #
1:26:22 > 1:26:29# I was born a coal miner's daughter... #
1:26:30 > 1:26:33She's the most awarded lady in the history of country music,
1:26:33 > 1:26:34ladies and gentlemen.
1:26:34 > 1:26:38The first lady to have a motion picture made of her life,
1:26:38 > 1:26:41now she is the new recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1:26:41 > 1:26:43She's the coal miner's daughter, Ms Loretta Lynn.
1:26:43 > 1:26:46CHEERING
1:26:55 > 1:26:58# I lie here all alone
1:26:58 > 1:27:03# In my bed of memories
1:27:03 > 1:27:06# I'm dreamin' of your sweet kiss
1:27:06 > 1:27:10# Oh, how you loved on me
1:27:11 > 1:27:14# I can almost feel you with me
1:27:14 > 1:27:18# Here in this blue moonlight
1:27:18 > 1:27:24# Oh, I miss being Mrs tonight
1:27:26 > 1:27:32# Oh, I miss being Mrs tonight. #