SHORT TAKES : Lynn, 1st Lady in Collaboration

Loretta Lynn, once illiterate, has recorded two songs to raise money for a literacy program she’s working on with Barbara Bush.

“It’s going to be neat to have the First Lady on the video with me. I’d like to bring her to Kentucky and take her to some small schools,” the country singer said.

The songs are titled “I’m Changing” and “Count on Me.”

“When I was 17 years old, I would hold the Bible and cry because I couldn’t read it. Today, the Bible is the easiest thing for me to read,” she said after a concert in Wheeling last week.

Lynn’s life was the basis for the Oscar-winning film “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”