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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

Loretta Lynn

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Loretta Lynn
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Violinist
Butcher Holler
Kentucky
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I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
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If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.
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