Saturday, June 13, 2020

Peggy Sue Wright - I'm Dynamite

If I asked you to name a famous singer from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky you'd say "Loretta Lynn".  You'd be right, of course.  If I asked you to name another famous singer from Butcher Hollow you might pause a moment before answering Crystal Gale, Loretta's baby sister.  Not many people know that the list of Butcher Hollow singers doesn't end there.

Peggy Sue Webb was Loretta's younger sister, second of four girls (and four boys).  She began performing with Loretta as her big sister's career started taking off.  She also started writing songs, collaborating with Loretta on Don't Come Home A' Drinking (With Loving On Your Mind).  She started her own recording career in 1969 with this (ahem) dynamite single, followed by an LP with the same title.  Over the next dozen years she had a baker's dozen of songs that reached the charts.

Married twice, she goes by Peggy Sue Wright.



I'm Dynamite (Songwriter: Loretta Lynn)
I know you see that don't touch sign all over me
My paint is wet and you'll get hurt all over you
I'm another man's woman to you I'm just bad news
I'm dynamite so please don't light the fuse

You turn me on but I can't turn me off 
I guess the switch is buried in my mind
The flame of love is burning just begging to be used
I'm dynamite so please don't light the fuse

You cannot undo the damage that I'll do 
and the first thing I'll destroy it will be you
Too many other hearts and vows that I can't stand to lose
I'm dynamite so please don't light the fuse

You cannot undo the damage...
I'm dynamite so please don't light the fuse

3 comments:

waepnedmann said...

"Love is like fire,
It can warm your hearth or burn down your house."
---You would be surprised at who said that, but I can't remember right now.

waepnedmann said...

She said it better than I rembered:

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
-Joan Crawford.

libertyman said...

What would that song be without the slide guitar?
What a talented family, I always learn something here.