Songtexte They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy - Live - Loretta Lynn

I wasn't much more than a baby, I thought he was a bear
The way my daddy carried me around
They said I learned to walk while holding on to just one thing
The hand of a man who stands six foot three
Not old enough to understand the meaning of perfection
Just something people talk about a lot
Just one heck of a man that worked for what he got

They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore
Guess they don't wear the pattern through the years
In the great big land of freedom, that's not what's really near
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore

From the Johnson County coke camps to the hills of West Virginia
My daddy worked down in the dark coal mines
Education didn't count so much as what you had for dinner
Like the will to live and dream of better times
Daddy never took a handout, it ain't meant to be easy making
But he worked to keep the wolf back from the door
And it only proves one thing to me when folks start bellyaching
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore

They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore
Guess they don't wear the pattern through the years
In the great big land of freedom, that's not what's really near
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore