The Momma 'n' Daddy Collection 66

The song I'm bringing you today is rather more complex in how it embodies the Momma 'n' Daddy theme than many of its predecessors in this series. It isn't your grown-up children singing of their beloved parents, and it isn't the parents singing the love of their children. No. While it does involve all these aforesaid parties to the relationship, it does so in a quite different way, as Loretta Lynn now proceeds to tell it to you in 'Family Tree':

Woman, you don't know me, but you can bet that I know you
Everybody in this whole darn town knows you too
I brought along our little babies, 'cause I wanted them to see
The woman that's burnin' down our family tree

Chorus
No I didn't come to fight
If he was a better man I might
But I wouldn't dirty my hands on trash like you, no
Bring out the babies' daddy, that's who they've come to see
Not the woman that's burnin' down our family tree

Their daddy once was a good man, until he ran into trash like you
Take a look at the baby's face and tell me who loves who
I brought along his old dog Charlie and the bills that's overdue
The job you're workin'... Lord, we need money, too

Repeat chorus
No not the woman that's burnin' down our family tree

Some might think Loretta is here laying too much of the blame on the other woman, but that issue falls outside the scope of the present series - in which, as you all know, it's the family tree itself that we focus upon.

[The Momma 'n' Daddy Archive, containing all the details of the series, is here.]