You’ll Get No More Of Me

A bluegrass song in G major written by Hazel Dickens, first recorded by her in 1987 on A Few Old Memories (Rounder). The lyric is a defiant kiss-off built on natural imagery — a heart compared to a willow bough, love wrecked like a winter storm — that turns from grief toward self-reclamation by the final verse. Dickens performed it live throughout her career, including a 1997 Mountain Stage appearance with Tim and Mollie O’Brien; later recordings include the Lynn Morris Band and Flatt Lonesome, whose version was the opening track and first number-one single from their 2013 self-titled debut.

Hazel Dickens (1925–2011) was a West Virginia–born singer and songwriter, one of the first women to record bluegrass under her own name. With Alice Gerrard she made the genre-defining duo albums Who’s That Knocking? (1965) and Won’t You Come and Sing for Me?, and she became known for labor and coal-mining songs drawn from her Appalachian background.