Loretta Lynn sings “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in Nashville, Tennessee on April 14, 1971. Lynn was the first woman ever to be named entertainer of the year at the country music genre’s two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later. Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler We were poor but we had love That's the one thing that daddy made sure of He shoveled coal to make a poor m