Love was the foundation and now the fire is gone.

Country music legend Loretta Lynn, 87, is no spring chicken — but country music, she says, is already in the grave.

“They’ve already let it [die],” the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” singer said recently on fellow country singer Martina McBride’s podcast, “Vocal Point.”

“I think it’s dead. I think it’s a shame. I think it’s a shame to let a type of music die. I don’t care what any kind of music it is. Rock, country, whatever. I think it’s a shame to let it die, and I’m here to start feeding it,” Lynn continued, according to People.

McBride, 53, then told Lynn she seemed “mad,” to which Lynn responded, “Yeah. I’m getting mad about it. I am. Because it’s ridiculous.”

“I’m not happy at all,” she continued. “I think that they’re completely losing it. And I think that’s a sad situation because we should never let country music die. I think that every type of music should be saved, and country is one of the greatest. It’s been around, as far as I’m concerned, longer than any of it.”

Lynn’s proudest accomplishment in life, though, is not her six-decade-long career contributing to the now apparently dead genre, but her six children — two of whom have passed away.

“I love my kids so much,” she said, “that’s my whole life. My life is my kids, and then my music.”

The Kentucky native also spoke about unfounded “deathbed rumors.” Her health, unlike country music, has bounced back.

“People thought I wouldn’t come back from that,” Lynn said of having a stroke in 2017 and breaking her hip in 2018. “And they’re really shocked when I tell them, ‘Well, I’m doing good, I’m moving my arms, I’m moving all my parts and I can sing.’ ”

If only the same could be said of country music.

The podcast is available on Luminary.