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Kids Say the Darndest Things (song)

"Kids Say the Darndest Things" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton, and recorded by American country music artist Tammy Wynette. According to the liner notes of her 1992 boxed set, "Tears of Fire: The 25th Anniversary Collection," the song was recorded in 1969. It would shortly serve as the title track of a compilation album of Wynette's child-themed songs.

"Kids Say the Darndest Things"

"I Wish I Had a Mommy Like You"

March 1973

Billy Sherrill

Song Background[edit]

In the song, the narrator reveals her marital problems, by way of innocent comments her small children repeat, which they'd overheard their parents make ("My four-year old said 'I want a divorce', now where did she hear that").