Loretta Lynn was a country staple by 1966, when she and her sister, Peggy Sue, co-wrote a track based on their shared experience that would land her her first No. 1 hit.
“Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” became the first of many controversial songs that Lynn would become known for. It was released in the mid-’60s and gained fame in 1967, landing at No.1 on Billboard’s Hot Country chart. Lynn became one of a select few women to have hit that position on the charts at the time.
The country track has a real story behind its inspiration that both Lynn and her sister, Peggy Sue, shared. Lynn was 34 years old at the time of recording, with her sister being 23, and both were married.
“Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” tells the story of a young woman being fed up with her alcoholic husband coming home drunk from a night out with friends and expecting sex with his wife. Lynn could relate all too well at the time, as she was married to Oliver “Dolittle” Lynn since 1948. Her husband was known for having supported her career, but also for his heavy drinking and infidelity.
It wasn’t Lynn’s husband who inspired the song, but Peggy Sue’s. She, too, was struggling with the same issues in her marriage as her older sister, all the while raising kids and starting her own singing career. She soon got the idea for “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” and began writing it before enlisting the help of her sister.
“I looked at what she had on paper, and I kind of knew what she was trying to say. It’s like when there’s twins, the old saying is, ‘What one can’t think of, the other one can.’ I’ve always had this feeling with Peggy that I am kind of inside her head,” wrote Lynn in her book Honky Tonk Girl: My Life In Lyrics.
“Maybe it’s because she means so much to me. We can look at each other and know what the other is thinking. Sometimes it’s not good to be like that, but when the song was finished, we both thought it was great.”
The track ended up setting the standard for Lynn’s career in the 1970s. Lynn did rattle some cages with the song’s message aimed at husbands who fit the characteristics. She admitted in her book that she “wasn’t trying to change anything.” The song can be interpreted a few ways depending on how the title is arranged.
“I like to be on the woman’s side, but I like to be on the man’s side, too,” she continued. “I never went out to put a man down in anything I’ve ever done. Men sometimes forget about a woman, especially if they drink. Sometimes a woman’s gotta say, ‘These boots are made for walkin’/One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you,'” she said.
Its impact is generational, to say the least, as it was covered by a few artists over the years, like Tammy Wynette. Rolling Stone even ranked it on their list of the Greatest Country Songs of All Time at No. 38.
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