"Blue Kentucky Girl" is a single by American country music artist Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...

. Released in 1965, it was the first single and title track from the album Blue Kentucky Girl

Blue Kentucky Girl (Loretta Lynn album)

Blue Kentucky Girl is a 1965 studio album by American country singer-songwriter, Loretta Lynn.The album was released off of Decca Records in 1965 and was Lynn's third studio album of the year and her fourth solo album up to that point. The album's title track was the song's only single and peaked...

. The song reached #7 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

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Chart performance

Chart (1965)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	7

Emmylou Harris version

"Blue Kentucky Girl" was also a single by American country music artist Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

. Released in 1979, it was the second single and title track from the album Blue Kentucky Girl. The song reached #6 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1979)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	6
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	7