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♪ Here I am ♪

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Well, if I was trying
to describe myself,

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someone that had never seen me before,

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I would say, "Calm down.

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Don't get scared. It's just me.

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I know I look totally
bizarre and artificial,

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but I'm totally real inside."

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She says I am!

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Dolly is somewhat
a cartoon character.

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As superhuman as a human can be.

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She's a great singer and entertainer.

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She's a fierce businesswoman.

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She has a playful side to her

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that comes out when you least expect it.

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She gives away very little.

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She is who she is, even
though she isn't.

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♪ Your smile is like a breath of spring ♪

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♪ Your voice is soft like summer rain ♪

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♪ And I cannot compete with you, Jolene ♪

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Sort of like that.

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I think there may be a secret Dolly.

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She knew very early on in her career

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that she was gonna have
to carve out boundaries.

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The hot dogs are ready!

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There's a private Dolly,

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when she's away from the cameras

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and the recording studios and everything.

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♪ Little sparrow ♪

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It's an extraordinary
tale from poverty to stardom.

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I saw myself as special.

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I wanted to be seen, I
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I wanted to be appreciated for what I do.

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She knew that she was a shooting star

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and she had some things she
needed to get off her chest.

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And so she crafted heartbreaking
and soul-stirring stories

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about the lives of
people often overlooked.

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She painted a picture with her words

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and then colored in the lines
with that angelic voice.

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Dolly Parton is one of the
most phenomenal songwriters,

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breasts included.

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♪ And I will always love you ♪

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I actually take my
songwriting more serious

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than anything else I do.

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So I would say I am a songwriter first.

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♪ And I will always love you ♪

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It's my way of expressing
myself. It is my therapy.

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You have to search for a long time,

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'cause I've written a lot of songs,

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but yes, there are
pieces of me, of course,

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in everything I write.

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Hey, hey, how's everybody? Hi there!

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Hey.

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We're back.

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When I was young, we always used to listen

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to the Grand Ole Opry
and everybody would say,

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"That's where you gotta go
if you're a country star,

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if you wanna try to make
it in the business."

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So that was always just my aim.

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It's sort of like how Broadway
people go to New York.

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Well, Nashville was the Grand Ole Opry.

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♪ Velvet cushion seats and soft armrests ♪

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It is amazing to me,

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thinking back on my life as a little girl,

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when I wanted to be on
the Grand Ole Opry so bad.

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Now, here I am 50 years later

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and we're celebrating my
50th year on Grand Ole Opry.

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♪ As the lights go out ♪

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I'm so honored.

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♪ Up on the silver screen, I picture me ♪

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Hi everybody.

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♪ Living out my passions,
hopes and fantasies ♪

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Well, it's nearly showtime, whoo!

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Yes.

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And you thought it was
easy being in show business.

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I got people all over me.

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It's fun having us all
back together, ain't it?

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I mean, we've all been at
this at least 50 years.

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Some of you people are looking
really good for my age.

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I'm older than America.

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People just know that I'm gonna be there

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and that I'm gonna have fun with it

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and I'm gonna try to help them have fun.

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♪ They let you dream just
to watch 'em shatter ♪

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♪ You're just a step on
the boss-man's ladder ♪

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♪ But you got dreams
he'll never take away ♪

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I've done so many things.
I've been around a long time.

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I guess it's just kind of,

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I feel like a family
member to most people.

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♪ And the tide's gonna turn ♪

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♪ And it's all gonna roll your way ♪

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I just know it.

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♪ (whistling) Whoo ♪

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♪ Yeah ♪

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♪ Well, good morning, Captain ♪

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I came here early on Saturday morning

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with my little beat-up suitcase of songs

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and my little old guitar
and ragged little clothes.

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♪ Good morning to you, sir ♪

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♪ Hey, hey, yeah ♪

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I was hungry, cried myself
to sleep every night.

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♪ Do you need another mule skinner ♪

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But I did learn early on,

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that you really had to
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especially being a girl
in business at that time

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and a country girl that did
look like a dumb blonde.

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♪ Yodel-a-ee-he-he ♪

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When Dolly left home at the age of 18,

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she was laughed at by her classmates.

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She couldn't imagine why they laughed,

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because she was convinced
that she would be a star.

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If she had stayed back in the mountains,

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she would have just
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keeping house, raising kids,

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all of those things she didn't want to do.

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And so it was really gutsy
of her to just get up and go

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with actually very little money,

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a few sacks of dirty clothes.

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Dolly, thanks for coming in.

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Well, thank you for inviting me.

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It's a pleasure to be with you.

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Can we start by talking about
the biggest thing about you?

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Well, now what would that be?

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I think your determination.

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Okay, (laughing) you scared
me for a minute, you know.

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Well, what would we like to talk about?

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I do definitely have a
lot of determination.

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I just wanted to accomplish everything

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that I possibly could in my life.

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I figure that we all are here for a reason

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and I aim to put everything
that I can into my life.

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♪ He-he-he-he-he-He ♪

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♪ Mule skinner blues ♪

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My first meeting with Dolly Parton

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was sometime in the middle of 1964.

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A producer from upstairs at
Capitol Records brought her down

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and he said, "I want you
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He said, "She's got so much talent,

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I can't get anyone interested in her."

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Dolly was this beautiful
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who seemed quite naive and uneducated.

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Her language was kind of crude

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and gutter language, you know, for guys,

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and didn't seem to match her.

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The first time I saw Dolly,

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I thought, "This is a teenager."

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She was very pleasant.

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She was, you know,
seemed happy to meet us,

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and then she started to
sing and it was, "Whoa!"

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♪ You kindle the fire of love inside me ♪

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And she wasn't a bit bashful either,

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when it came to singing
and that, you know,

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because that's a lot of
what this business takes.

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You have to believe you
have something to offer,

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and I think she believed it.

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♪ You must know how I feel ♪

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You've gotta be daring,

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you've got to be able
to get outside yourself.

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And I didn't care, I
wasn't afraid of anybody.

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I mean, what was you gonna do to me?

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You're gonna kill me?

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And if you kill me, what
you gonna do, eat me?

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You know, you're gonna
cook me and eat me? No.

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I mean, it's like I'll either
succeed or I will fail.

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♪ Don't try to cry ♪

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♪ Your way out of this ♪

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♪ And don't try to lie ♪

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♪ Or I'll catch you in it ♪

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You underestimate Dolly at your peril.

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And "Dumb Blonde" is a perfect
way to launch a career.

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She's so smart.

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♪ Don't think I'm dumb ♪

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♪ 'Cause this dumb blonde
ain't nobody's fool ♪

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"Dumb Blonde" was my first chart record,

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and Curly Putnam wrote the song,

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he wrote it for me to record

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and that was perfect for me,

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because it does say

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"Just because I'm blonde,
don't think I'm dumb

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'cause this dumb blonde
ain't nobody's fool."

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Everybody thinks I wrote that song

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and I would've, I could've, I should've.

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♪ Just because I'm blonde,
don't think I'm dumb ♪

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♪ 'Cause this dumb blonde
ain't nobody's fool ♪

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Thank you very much.

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Dolly says she met her husband

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the first day she was in Nashville.

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She was at the Wishy-Washy laundromat.

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She was walking up and down the street

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looking over her new neighborhood

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and this good-looking
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and spoke to her.

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I went to the laundromat.

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First time I'd ever been in a laundromat,

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took my little dirty clothes
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and it was called the
Wishy-Washy Washateria.

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And so I met my husband that first day,

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in which I've always joked about that,

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that it's been wishy-washy ever since.

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I've never seen Carl
Dean nor ever met him.

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I know he exists, but I don't know anybody

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that's ever seen Carl Dean.

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He didn't go to any shows with her.

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I never met the man, so I
don't know anything about him.

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Carl Dean?

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Yes, I know Carl. Who,
why do I know Carl Dean?

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I have met Carl. Carl is very handsome.

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I spent the night at
their home in Nashville

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and Carl cooked us breakfast,
very delicious breakfast.

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First time I had fried green tomatoes.

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And I remember sitting
at the breakfast table

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and I said, "Describe the
first time that you saw Dolly."

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"Well," he said, "I was driving my truck

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and I drove past a 7-Eleven

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and I saw her, she was
drinking an RC Cola."

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And he said, and...

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And he was trying to
articulate with his hands

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and his language what it was, the thing.

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And he got so worked up that
he fell backwards in his chair,

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he fell over backwards.

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♪ How I love to run
barefoot through meadows ♪

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Dolly was not looking for a husband

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when she came to Nashville,
she was looking for a career.

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Her producers also did not
want her to get married.

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And she went ahead and did it anyway,

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because when Dolly wants to do something,

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I think she does it.

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She kept the marriage a secret for a year.

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But I think that was also very clever

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because she demonstrated to her producers

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that she could in fact have a marriage

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and still be successful.

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You know, people ask
me if I'm a feminist.

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I love men, don't get me wrong,

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I've always had one of my own, you know,

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and I have, and I love men.

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And I've known more good men
than I've known bad ones,

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but I've known the bad ones too.

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But I also am all about being a woman

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and thinking that, you
know, we are who we are.

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And when I started out,
it never crossed my mind

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I couldn't do it 'cause I was a woman.

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I was just going to do it.

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One way that we see Dolly's feminism,

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I think, is in her marriage

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and the way that she arranged
that with her husband

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so that it was understood

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that she was not going to
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that she had a plan for a career.

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And she made it very clear from the outset

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that that was her plan.

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♪ I can see you're disappointed ♪

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♪ By the way you look at me ♪

255
00:13:08,597 --> 00:13:13,597
♪ And I'm sorry that I'm not the woman ♪

256
00:13:14,288 --> 00:13:17,930
♪ You thought I'd be ♪

257
00:13:17,931 --> 00:13:22,629
♪ Yes, I've made my mistakes ♪

258
00:13:22,630 --> 00:13:27,630
♪ But listen and understand ♪

259
00:13:27,841 --> 00:13:32,079
♪ My mistakes are no worse than yours ♪

260
00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:36,331
♪ Just because I'm a woman ♪

261
00:13:36,332 --> 00:13:39,892
"Just Because I'm a Woman"
is a very extraordinary song

262
00:13:39,893 --> 00:13:42,383
for the late sixties.

263
00:13:42,384 --> 00:13:44,071
Dolly says that it came about

264
00:13:44,072 --> 00:13:47,558
maybe six months after
she and Carl had married.

265
00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,111
What Dolly's doing in
"Just Because I'm a Woman"

266
00:13:50,112 --> 00:13:54,517
is really calling out the sexual
double standard of the time

267
00:13:54,518 --> 00:13:58,765
and saying, "You've had
sex before we got married.

268
00:13:58,766 --> 00:14:00,543
It's no different if I have sex

269
00:14:00,544 --> 00:14:02,149
before we've gotten married."

270
00:14:02,150 --> 00:14:04,674
And I think she's not just
talking to her husband

271
00:14:04,675 --> 00:14:06,323
about their personal situation,

272
00:14:06,324 --> 00:14:08,634
but she's talking to everyone,

273
00:14:08,635 --> 00:14:13,354
and it sums up a larger
idea about women inequality.

274
00:14:13,355 --> 00:14:17,628
♪ My mistakes, they're
no worse than yours ♪

275
00:14:17,629 --> 00:14:21,212
♪ Just because I'm a woman ♪

276
00:14:23,859 --> 00:14:26,290
I have done things in the past

277
00:14:26,291 --> 00:14:30,011
that I thought at that
time, was a mistake.

278
00:14:30,012 --> 00:14:31,898
I have changed my thinking a lot

279
00:14:31,899 --> 00:14:33,982
about what I'm supposed
to feel guilty over

280
00:14:33,983 --> 00:14:36,290
and what I'm not, I do the best I can.

281
00:14:36,291 --> 00:14:40,813
♪ Now a man will take a good girl ♪

282
00:14:40,814 --> 00:14:45,306
♪ And he'll ruin her reputation ♪

283
00:14:45,307 --> 00:14:49,446
♪ But when he wants to marry ♪

284
00:14:49,447 --> 00:14:54,266
♪ Well, that's a different situation ♪

285
00:14:54,267 --> 00:14:58,903
♪ He'll just walk off and leave her ♪

286
00:14:58,904 --> 00:15:03,170
♪ To do the best she can ♪

287
00:15:03,171 --> 00:15:08,171
♪ While he looks for an angel ♪

288
00:15:08,326 --> 00:15:11,263
♪ To wear his wedding band ♪

289
00:15:11,264 --> 00:15:13,545
Dolly writes,
"Just Because I'm a Woman"

290
00:15:13,546 --> 00:15:16,624
in the late sixties, at the
height of the sexual revolution.

291
00:15:16,625 --> 00:15:19,083
Not surprisingly in the 1970s,

292
00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:21,046
people continually asked Dolly

293
00:15:21,047 --> 00:15:23,959
if she supported the
Equal Rights Amendment.

294
00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:25,667
She never gave a straight answer.

295
00:15:25,668 --> 00:15:27,672
You said
something quite astonishing

296
00:15:27,673 --> 00:15:30,427
about women's liberation
and about burning your bra.

297
00:15:30,428 --> 00:15:34,560
I said that when
women's liberation came out,

298
00:15:34,561 --> 00:15:36,975
that I was the first person to burn my bra

299
00:15:36,976 --> 00:15:38,485
and it took the fire department

300
00:15:38,486 --> 00:15:40,254
three days to put the fire out.

301
00:15:42,032 --> 00:15:44,323
But that's only a silly joke.

302
00:15:44,324 --> 00:15:48,839
♪ My mistakes are no worse than yours ♪

303
00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,583
♪ Just because I'm a woman ♪

304
00:15:52,584 --> 00:15:54,208
Dolly won't do anything

305
00:15:54,209 --> 00:15:59,209
that will render uncomfortable
the people who love her,

306
00:15:59,450 --> 00:16:03,726
and it's a very broad
swath of people, I think,

307
00:16:03,727 --> 00:16:06,062
politically, very broad,

308
00:16:06,063 --> 00:16:09,787
socially, economically, very broad.

309
00:16:09,788 --> 00:16:13,035
She is first and foremost an entertainer.

310
00:16:13,036 --> 00:16:14,811
She wants people to feel good.

311
00:16:14,812 --> 00:16:18,973
So if she feels that
identifying as a feminist

312
00:16:18,974 --> 00:16:22,243
will make some of those people
who love her uncomfortable,

313
00:16:22,244 --> 00:16:24,327
she's not gonna say that.

314
00:16:25,341 --> 00:16:29,262
But her life is the life of a feminist,

315
00:16:29,263 --> 00:16:33,763
which means a woman who has
fought to realize herself,

316
00:16:34,702 --> 00:16:37,739
to actualize her full self.

317
00:16:37,740 --> 00:16:42,189
♪ Now I know I'm no angel ♪

318
00:16:42,190 --> 00:16:46,775
♪ If that's what you thought you'd found ♪

319
00:16:46,776 --> 00:16:51,776
♪ I was just the victim of
a man that let me down ♪

320
00:16:54,253 --> 00:16:56,503
She's mastered the design

321
00:16:57,342 --> 00:16:59,009
of how to be a woman

322
00:16:59,968 --> 00:17:04,885
and succeed in this business
without making a man feel bad.

323
00:17:06,530 --> 00:17:10,004
In fact, without anybody
making anybody feel bad.

324
00:17:10,005 --> 00:17:12,479
Dolly, I read once
that you didn't in fact,

325
00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,205
consider yourself as a sex symbol.

326
00:17:15,206 --> 00:17:16,655
Were you lying to them?

327
00:17:16,656 --> 00:17:18,939
I'll try very hard
not to be a sex symbol.

328
00:17:20,758 --> 00:17:24,999
♪ No, my mistakes are
no worse than yours ♪

329
00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,583
♪ Just because I'm a woman ♪

330
00:17:29,952 --> 00:17:32,932
Thank you very much.

331
00:17:32,933 --> 00:17:34,250
Now, you look back at it

332
00:17:34,251 --> 00:17:37,680
and it was kind of one of the
first Me Too movement songs.

333
00:17:37,681 --> 00:17:39,505
I mean, I don't like that
word so much anymore,

334
00:17:39,506 --> 00:17:40,782
you hear so much of it.

335
00:17:40,783 --> 00:17:42,342
But it's really about women

336
00:17:42,343 --> 00:17:44,523
taking responsibility for themselves

337
00:17:44,524 --> 00:17:47,142
and not wanting to be blamed
for everything that happens,

338
00:17:47,143 --> 00:17:49,357
or to think that we don't have some power

339
00:17:49,358 --> 00:17:52,739
and that we can't stand up
and speak out for ourselves.

340
00:17:58,935 --> 00:18:01,384
Right now, I want
you to meet the little gal

341
00:18:01,385 --> 00:18:04,336
that I know you're going
to really learn to love.

342
00:18:04,337 --> 00:18:07,639
Direct from
Nashville, Tennessee,

343
00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,857
here's the "Porter Wagoner
Show," starring Porter Wagoner,

344
00:18:11,858 --> 00:18:13,427
Dolly Parton.

345
00:18:13,428 --> 00:18:16,110
I had come to
Nashville to be my own artist,

346
00:18:16,111 --> 00:18:17,086
to have my own band,

347
00:18:17,087 --> 00:18:20,771
and I'd had a couple of top
10 records when Porter saw me.

348
00:18:20,772 --> 00:18:24,513
But his show was going
to send me on out there

349
00:18:24,514 --> 00:18:26,317
to be a big artist.

350
00:18:26,318 --> 00:18:29,927
Porter had a lot of power
because of the television show

351
00:18:29,928 --> 00:18:32,567
and because of Dolly as she came on board.

352
00:18:32,568 --> 00:18:36,106
There's no question Dolly
Parton and Porter Wagoner

353
00:18:36,107 --> 00:18:37,625
had a great chemistry

354
00:18:37,626 --> 00:18:40,922
and you can take that
anywhere you wanna go with it.

355
00:18:40,923 --> 00:18:45,113
♪ I thought I had seen
pretty girls in my time ♪

356
00:18:45,114 --> 00:18:49,193
♪ But that was before I met you ♪

357
00:18:49,194 --> 00:18:53,335
♪ I never saw one that I wanted for mine ♪

358
00:18:53,336 --> 00:18:56,464
♪ But that was before I met you ♪

359
00:18:56,465 --> 00:18:58,533
Well, Dolly had such a unique voice.

360
00:18:58,534 --> 00:19:01,673
Her voice was much in a higher register,

361
00:19:01,674 --> 00:19:06,382
a brilliant songwriter, that
really sold me on Dolly too.

362
00:19:06,383 --> 00:19:09,595
So we just kind of hit it
off from that moment on.

363
00:19:09,596 --> 00:19:13,823
♪ But that was before I met you ♪

364
00:19:13,824 --> 00:19:17,818
♪ I wanted to ramble and always be free ♪

365
00:19:17,819 --> 00:19:19,691
When you start out in the business,

366
00:19:19,692 --> 00:19:22,301
you start out to try to make it yourself

367
00:19:22,302 --> 00:19:25,090
and then you wind up
working with other people.

368
00:19:25,091 --> 00:19:27,063
And if you're smart, like for instance,

369
00:19:27,064 --> 00:19:29,556
when I worked with "The
Porter Wagoner Show,"

370
00:19:29,557 --> 00:19:32,081
a show that I was with for many years,

371
00:19:32,082 --> 00:19:34,794
you learn from the best,
all the people around you,

372
00:19:34,795 --> 00:19:36,561
you learn how they do things.

373
00:19:36,562 --> 00:19:39,129
♪ I hollered wake up,
Jacob, stir up a light ♪

374
00:19:39,130 --> 00:19:41,462
♪ Did you ever see a man
and a pole cat fight ♪

375
00:19:41,463 --> 00:19:43,262
♪ Turn on the light and let me in ♪

376
00:19:43,263 --> 00:19:47,078
♪ Wake up, Jacob, let me in ♪

377
00:19:47,079 --> 00:19:48,748
There's a famous story

378
00:19:48,749 --> 00:19:52,171
about one of my first sessions at RCA.

379
00:19:52,172 --> 00:19:54,410
I was working with Porter Wagoner

380
00:19:54,411 --> 00:19:56,348
and it was my big day to make,

381
00:19:56,349 --> 00:19:59,440
I think I was doing my first album.

382
00:19:59,441 --> 00:20:04,203
And so I had also got a car
that I wasn't used to driving,

383
00:20:04,204 --> 00:20:06,248
wasn't that good with my driving.

384
00:20:06,249 --> 00:20:09,453
And in my haste with my new car

385
00:20:09,454 --> 00:20:13,278
and with the idea that I was
gonna be recording my album,

386
00:20:13,279 --> 00:20:15,938
I was just all those nerves
and all that excitement.

387
00:20:15,939 --> 00:20:18,868
So I pulled into the
parking lot up to the wall

388
00:20:18,869 --> 00:20:22,137
and just kept going and I hit
the wall, this brick wall,

389
00:20:22,138 --> 00:20:24,408
and it was a new building at that time.

390
00:20:24,409 --> 00:20:27,712
And a lot of these bricks
just fell on top of my car.

391
00:20:27,713 --> 00:20:30,473
I just got out, took the
keys, just left it there.

392
00:20:30,474 --> 00:20:32,613
And then later, after the session,

393
00:20:32,614 --> 00:20:34,450
everybody was out in this parking lot.

394
00:20:34,451 --> 00:20:35,939
They'd go out to take a little break

395
00:20:35,940 --> 00:20:37,362
to smoke or whatever, and somebody said,

396
00:20:37,363 --> 00:20:40,733
"Hell, somebody's run
into the damn building."

397
00:20:40,734 --> 00:20:43,229
I never said anything.

398
00:20:43,230 --> 00:20:46,546
Anyway, they actually replaced
the bricks in that building.

399
00:20:46,547 --> 00:20:48,426
And some say you can still see

400
00:20:48,427 --> 00:20:50,235
the little difference in the color.

401
00:20:50,236 --> 00:20:55,236
So yeah, I hit a brick wall,
but I kept going.

402
00:20:55,418 --> 00:20:57,844
Now then, it's time to
meet the pretty little gal,

403
00:20:57,845 --> 00:20:59,635
and she's got a song that,

404
00:20:59,636 --> 00:21:01,547
you haven't done this before
on the show, have you?

405
00:21:01,548 --> 00:21:02,965
I don't believe I have.

406
00:21:02,966 --> 00:21:05,274
And this is one of the
prettiest songs you've written.

407
00:21:05,275 --> 00:21:06,402
And she's going to do it

408
00:21:06,403 --> 00:21:08,075
just with her and her little guitar.

409
00:21:08,076 --> 00:21:10,427
It's called "The Bridge."
Miss Dolly Parton.

410
00:21:10,428 --> 00:21:12,317
Thank you.

411
00:21:12,318 --> 00:21:15,300
♪ The bridge, so long ♪

412
00:21:15,301 --> 00:21:19,157
♪ The bridge, so wide ♪

413
00:21:19,158 --> 00:21:23,908
♪ Here is where it started on the bridge ♪

414
00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:27,239
"The Bridge" is a song that I wrote

415
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,213
when I was a teenager back home,

416
00:21:29,214 --> 00:21:33,389
sitting on an old bridge
where I wrote songs a lot.

417
00:21:33,390 --> 00:21:35,835
♪ From the bridge, I see reflections ♪

418
00:21:35,836 --> 00:21:37,765
My own life was pretty ordinary.

419
00:21:37,766 --> 00:21:40,379
My dad was pretty strict,
so we didn't stray,

420
00:21:40,380 --> 00:21:43,721
I wasn't like a wild child
in any sense of the word.

421
00:21:43,722 --> 00:21:45,696
I could be though in my songs

422
00:21:45,697 --> 00:21:47,658
and I figured, "Well, if I did love a boy

423
00:21:47,659 --> 00:21:49,816
and I did get pregnant,
how would I handle that?

424
00:21:49,817 --> 00:21:52,375
My daddy'd kill me if I don't
kill myself."

425
00:21:52,376 --> 00:21:56,344
♪ You kissed me for the first time here ♪

426
00:21:56,345 --> 00:21:59,819
♪ And held me awfully tight ♪

427
00:21:59,820 --> 00:22:03,999
♪ And the bridge became
our favorite place ♪

428
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,502
♪ We came here often in the night ♪

429
00:22:06,503 --> 00:22:09,045
Back when I grew up, we
didn't have the movies,

430
00:22:09,046 --> 00:22:11,807
we didn't even have television
for many years of my life.

431
00:22:11,808 --> 00:22:15,435
So I used to write songs
so my family could enjoy

432
00:22:15,436 --> 00:22:16,934
seeing these little stories.

433
00:22:16,935 --> 00:22:18,135
So every song I'd write,

434
00:22:18,136 --> 00:22:20,671
I'd run home and I'd
sing them to the family,

435
00:22:20,672 --> 00:22:22,368
you know, whatever I was doing,

436
00:22:22,369 --> 00:22:24,334
so it was kind of entertainment.

437
00:22:24,335 --> 00:22:27,806
But it really is like a little
movie when I write songs.

438
00:22:27,807 --> 00:22:31,702
♪ One night, whilst
standing on the bridge ♪

439
00:22:31,703 --> 00:22:35,604
♪ Desire swept through us both ♪

440
00:22:35,605 --> 00:22:39,452
♪ Passion took us by the hand ♪

441
00:22:39,453 --> 00:22:44,453
♪ And showed us where to go ♪

442
00:22:45,357 --> 00:22:48,705
♪ From the bridge, we saw a meadow ♪

443
00:22:48,706 --> 00:22:53,278
♪ So we ran together there ♪

444
00:22:53,279 --> 00:22:57,290
♪ Where we found love together ♪

445
00:22:57,291 --> 00:23:01,124
♪ Our emotions filled the air ♪

446
00:23:03,627 --> 00:23:08,627
In "The Bridge," Dolly
creates a strong sense of drama

447
00:23:08,876 --> 00:23:10,543
by giving us a story

448
00:23:11,505 --> 00:23:14,960
that focuses just on
one person's experience

449
00:23:14,961 --> 00:23:19,275
and only through that one
person's eyes, it's very visceral.

450
00:23:19,276 --> 00:23:22,813
♪ The bridge, so wide ♪

451
00:23:22,814 --> 00:23:25,480
You can feel
that kind of rising tension

452
00:23:25,481 --> 00:23:26,933
through the music.

453
00:23:26,934 --> 00:23:31,207
♪ Where once we stood together ♪

454
00:23:31,208 --> 00:23:34,625
♪ Tonight, I stand alone ♪

455
00:23:36,547 --> 00:23:39,599
It's the melody, it's the rawness,

456
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,933
it's the, "Is she saying
what I think she's saying?"

457
00:23:44,987 --> 00:23:48,923
♪ Tonight, whilst standing on the bridge ♪

458
00:23:48,924 --> 00:23:52,830
♪ My heart is beating wild ♪

459
00:23:52,831 --> 00:23:57,250
♪ To think that you could leave me here ♪

460
00:23:57,251 --> 00:23:59,353
♪ With our unborn child ♪

461
00:24:02,931 --> 00:24:07,040
♪ My feet are moving slowly ♪

462
00:24:07,041 --> 00:24:10,886
♪ Closer to the edge ♪

463
00:24:10,887 --> 00:24:14,699
♪ Here is where it started ♪

464
00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:18,700
♪ And here is where I'll end it ♪

465
00:24:22,656 --> 00:24:26,495
The song ends with no
harmonic sense of closure.

466
00:24:26,496 --> 00:24:29,669
The last chord doesn't
finish anything out,

467
00:24:29,670 --> 00:24:31,183
it just ends abruptly.

468
00:24:31,184 --> 00:24:33,523
I just thought, "Well,
I start it with that

469
00:24:33,524 --> 00:24:34,817
and then I'll tell my story

470
00:24:34,818 --> 00:24:36,602
and then I'll end it the same way.

471
00:24:36,603 --> 00:24:38,191
You don't hear the water splash,

472
00:24:38,192 --> 00:24:41,563
but you know, you know she went.

473
00:24:41,564 --> 00:24:45,807
That's pretty heavy duty
that this woman killed herself

474
00:24:45,808 --> 00:24:49,526
and her unborn baby by
jumping off a bridge.

475
00:24:49,527 --> 00:24:51,194
And that song itself

476
00:24:52,289 --> 00:24:54,456
in 1967, from Dolly Parton

477
00:24:55,777 --> 00:24:59,290
was a very, very deep song to write.

478
00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:04,291
♪ Today, tomorrow, and forever ♪

479
00:25:06,010 --> 00:25:11,010
♪ That's how long our love will last ♪

480
00:25:12,942 --> 00:25:17,609
♪ I'll never stop loving you, no, never ♪

481
00:25:19,383 --> 00:25:23,260
I'm proud of
everything I did for Dolly.

482
00:25:23,261 --> 00:25:27,511
I even kind of gave up on
my own career for a while

483
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,929
to devote all of my time for her career.

484
00:25:31,930 --> 00:25:34,172
So that I think that shows pretty much

485
00:25:34,173 --> 00:25:38,506
how much I loved Dolly and
and cared for her career.

486
00:25:40,072 --> 00:25:42,922
She was financed at
"The Porter's TV Show"

487
00:25:42,923 --> 00:25:45,447
and his records up until the point

488
00:25:45,448 --> 00:25:49,123
that she was getting
offers from other producers

489
00:25:49,124 --> 00:25:52,671
and other record companies
and stuff to do things

490
00:25:52,672 --> 00:25:54,818
and make movies and all that,

491
00:25:54,819 --> 00:25:57,629
which Porter didn't have
anything to do with.

492
00:25:57,630 --> 00:25:59,812
I think that
there reached a point

493
00:25:59,813 --> 00:26:03,794
where Dolly was getting
more fan mail than he was.

494
00:26:03,795 --> 00:26:08,445
So I think she outgrew
her need for his coaching.

495
00:26:08,446 --> 00:26:11,061
♪ I do everything for you ♪

496
00:26:11,062 --> 00:26:13,608
♪ You never help yourself ♪

497
00:26:13,609 --> 00:26:16,017
♪ And I think I'd die from shock ♪

498
00:26:16,018 --> 00:26:17,945
♪ If you raised a hand to help ♪

499
00:26:17,946 --> 00:26:20,956
He was the boss, but he didn't
have all the creativity,

500
00:26:20,957 --> 00:26:22,212
but he had control.

501
00:26:22,213 --> 00:26:24,752
Now then, it's time to
meet the pretty little gal,

502
00:26:24,753 --> 00:26:26,011
beautiful little lady.

503
00:26:26,012 --> 00:26:27,565
One of the prettiest singing-est,

504
00:26:27,566 --> 00:26:29,424
songwriting-est little
blondes in country music

505
00:26:29,425 --> 00:26:30,594
coming up right now.

506
00:26:30,595 --> 00:26:35,262
♪ Your woman's getting tired
of being your ole handy man ♪

507
00:26:35,263 --> 00:26:38,461
Occasionally, we would have
a run-in about something,

508
00:26:38,462 --> 00:26:40,674
but I always won because I always would,

509
00:26:40,675 --> 00:26:43,697
because I'm the boss, I'm the
one that signs the checks.

510
00:26:43,698 --> 00:26:48,698
♪ Your woman's getting tired
of being your ole handy man ♪

511
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,229
Thank you, Dolly.

512
00:26:52,230 --> 00:26:55,889
Fine job. That should tell
him like it is there, kiddo.

513
00:26:55,890 --> 00:26:58,027
I started trying to move myself away,

514
00:26:58,028 --> 00:27:00,607
started talking to him and
he wasn't hearing of it.

515
00:27:00,608 --> 00:27:03,132
So we fought a lot because
we were very similar,

516
00:27:03,133 --> 00:27:04,526
we were very headstrong.

517
00:27:04,527 --> 00:27:07,078
He knew what he wanted
and I knew what I wanted

518
00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:08,955
and we were both gonna get it.

519
00:27:08,956 --> 00:27:10,946
Dolly, excuse me just a second.

520
00:27:10,947 --> 00:27:15,205
We need to start one more, and
Tom, I'll count it this time,

521
00:27:15,206 --> 00:27:16,571
three, four.

522
00:27:16,572 --> 00:27:18,851
♪ Well, I remember when
I was just little ♪

523
00:27:18,852 --> 00:27:21,269
♪ Mama used to cook in
an old black kettle ♪

524
00:27:21,270 --> 00:27:23,843
She came to the office

525
00:27:23,844 --> 00:27:27,197
and sang me a bunch of
the songs that she'd wrote

526
00:27:27,198 --> 00:27:31,303
and the songs like
"Daddy's Working Boots,"

527
00:27:31,304 --> 00:27:35,387
"Mama's Old Black Kettle,"
songs about back home.

528
00:27:36,549 --> 00:27:38,502
And I said, "Dolly, people don't care

529
00:27:38,503 --> 00:27:40,601
if your mama's got a kettle or a skillet.

530
00:27:40,602 --> 00:27:42,919
Who in the hell cares, you know?

531
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,331
You need something that
people will listen to

532
00:27:45,332 --> 00:27:47,628
and you need to write a song

533
00:27:47,629 --> 00:27:51,962
about the most identifiable
subject on earth, love."

534
00:27:53,205 --> 00:27:54,882
She said, "Okay, smart aleck,

535
00:27:54,883 --> 00:27:58,133
I'll just write you a song about love."

536
00:27:59,699 --> 00:28:01,677
She came in two days later

537
00:28:01,678 --> 00:28:05,276
and she said, "I've
got this song started."

538
00:28:05,277 --> 00:28:08,302
And she sang me what she
had done of it at that time.

539
00:28:08,303 --> 00:28:10,720
I said, "Now you're talking."

540
00:28:11,718 --> 00:28:16,718
♪ If I should stay ♪

541
00:28:18,256 --> 00:28:23,256
♪ I would only be in your way ♪

542
00:28:25,576 --> 00:28:29,120
♪ So I'll go ♪

543
00:28:29,121 --> 00:28:32,396
♪ But I know ♪

544
00:28:32,397 --> 00:28:37,397
♪ I'll think of you each step of the way ♪

545
00:28:39,926 --> 00:28:44,926
♪ And I will always love you ♪

546
00:28:48,756 --> 00:28:52,589
♪ Yes, I will always love you ♪

547
00:28:56,965 --> 00:28:59,512
I said, "Dolly,
that song will make you

548
00:28:59,513 --> 00:29:01,367
more money and more fame

549
00:29:01,368 --> 00:29:04,568
than all of your other
songs put together."

550
00:29:04,569 --> 00:29:06,826
Although Porter says that Dolly wrote,

551
00:29:06,827 --> 00:29:08,506
"I Will Always Love You" as a response

552
00:29:08,507 --> 00:29:11,500
to his telling her she needed
to write more love songs,

553
00:29:11,501 --> 00:29:13,722
which in fact he did do,

554
00:29:13,723 --> 00:29:15,896
I think Dolly's version of the events

555
00:29:15,897 --> 00:29:18,254
are more likely to be true,

556
00:29:18,255 --> 00:29:21,596
which is that she was trying
to make the break from Porter.

557
00:29:21,597 --> 00:29:23,105
He wouldn't listen

558
00:29:23,106 --> 00:29:25,290
and the only way she
could get through to him

559
00:29:25,291 --> 00:29:27,246
was to write a song.

560
00:29:27,247 --> 00:29:32,247
♪ Bittersweet memories ♪

561
00:29:34,364 --> 00:29:38,447
♪ That's all I am taking with me ♪

562
00:29:41,325 --> 00:29:44,647
"I Will Always Love You"
is that signature song

563
00:29:44,648 --> 00:29:47,290
that when I was leaving
"The Porter Wagoner Show,"

564
00:29:47,291 --> 00:29:49,632
trying to make sense of what, you know,

565
00:29:49,633 --> 00:29:52,183
"That I appreciate you and I wish you well

566
00:29:52,184 --> 00:29:54,894
and I thank you for
loving me and all that,

567
00:29:54,895 --> 00:29:56,885
but I've gotta go."

568
00:29:56,886 --> 00:30:00,636
♪ But I will always love you ♪

569
00:30:05,442 --> 00:30:07,061
I've never been the kind of writer

570
00:30:07,062 --> 00:30:09,341
that's always looked for a perfect song.

571
00:30:09,342 --> 00:30:11,019
I write because I have to,

572
00:30:11,020 --> 00:30:14,476
I write because I love
to and because I want to.

573
00:30:14,477 --> 00:30:17,030
There are certain songs
though that I do write,

574
00:30:17,031 --> 00:30:19,611
I think, "Whoo, now that is good."

575
00:30:19,612 --> 00:30:20,862
And I hope life

576
00:30:23,027 --> 00:30:25,119
treats you kind.

577
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,246
"I Will Always Love You"
has the simple melody

578
00:30:28,247 --> 00:30:30,037
and it's easy to sing.

579
00:30:30,038 --> 00:30:32,654
It also fits so many types of things.

580
00:30:32,655 --> 00:30:35,312
Like people tell me, "We
played this at the hospital

581
00:30:35,313 --> 00:30:37,563
when my daddy was dying,
he loved the song."

582
00:30:37,564 --> 00:30:39,363
"They played this at my graduation

583
00:30:39,364 --> 00:30:41,949
when my son was going off to college."

584
00:30:41,950 --> 00:30:46,700
♪ But above all of this, I wish you love ♪

585
00:30:49,809 --> 00:30:52,763
In fact, Elvis' manager
wanted to have the publishing

586
00:30:52,764 --> 00:30:54,488
on that song, and I wouldn't allow it,

587
00:30:54,489 --> 00:30:57,135
'cause it was my most
important copywriter.

588
00:30:57,136 --> 00:30:58,608
It broke my heart,

589
00:30:58,609 --> 00:31:00,688
'cause Elvis didn't get to sing it,

590
00:31:00,689 --> 00:31:02,951
but I had to hold onto it.

591
00:31:02,952 --> 00:31:05,790
Elvis loved this song, in
fact, Priscilla had told me

592
00:31:05,791 --> 00:31:08,061
that when she and Elvis
were leaving the courthouse

593
00:31:08,062 --> 00:31:11,118
after they divorced, he was
singing that to her walking out.

594
00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:12,846
So she said he did love it.

595
00:31:12,847 --> 00:31:15,570
That was one of the
great career decisions

596
00:31:15,571 --> 00:31:17,191
Dolly Parton made in her life,

597
00:31:17,192 --> 00:31:21,048
'cause Elvis was Elvis, for God's sake.

598
00:31:21,049 --> 00:31:22,382
And she said no,

599
00:31:24,035 --> 00:31:28,807
and that demonstrated her
astuteness as a business woman.

600
00:31:28,808 --> 00:31:31,570
That was a great chess move.

601
00:31:31,571 --> 00:31:36,571
♪ And I will always love you ♪

602
00:31:41,424 --> 00:31:44,841
♪ I will always love you ♪

603
00:31:46,704 --> 00:31:49,310
I thought it was the
most unbelievable thing

604
00:31:49,311 --> 00:31:50,255
I'd ever heard.

605
00:31:50,256 --> 00:31:52,175
I'd never even believed my little song

606
00:31:52,176 --> 00:31:53,888
could be done like that.

607
00:31:53,889 --> 00:31:56,257
People say, "Well, she
claims it's her record."

608
00:31:56,258 --> 00:31:57,624
I said, "It is her record.

609
00:31:57,625 --> 00:32:00,183
It's my song, but it's
most definitely her record.

610
00:32:00,184 --> 00:32:03,947
It didn't sound like that when
I had it." She made me rich.

611
00:32:03,948 --> 00:32:07,698
♪ And I will always love you ♪

612
00:32:15,092 --> 00:32:18,834
♪ You know I'll always love you ♪

613
00:32:21,428 --> 00:32:23,016
Thank you very much.

614
00:32:28,323 --> 00:32:31,052
My folks were just simple,
poor mountain people.

615
00:32:31,053 --> 00:32:32,508
We lived on a farm.

616
00:32:37,263 --> 00:32:40,013
I'm from a family of 12 children.

617
00:32:41,381 --> 00:32:43,445
And I think being the fourth one down,

618
00:32:43,446 --> 00:32:45,100
I didn't get paid a lot of attention.

619
00:32:45,101 --> 00:32:47,789
I was the kind of kid that
needed a lot of attention.

620
00:32:56,246 --> 00:33:00,956
But I had an uncle that
played guitar really good

621
00:33:00,957 --> 00:33:04,227
and he saw early on, how
serious I was about my music.

622
00:33:04,228 --> 00:33:06,290
So he used to take me around.

623
00:33:06,291 --> 00:33:09,057
Right now, here's our youngest

624
00:33:09,058 --> 00:33:11,905
singing sensation here,
Little Dolly Parton.

625
00:33:11,906 --> 00:33:13,553
Dolly.

626
00:33:13,554 --> 00:33:15,620
♪ Whoo ♪

627
00:33:15,621 --> 00:33:19,624
♪ Well, (indistinct) ♪

628
00:33:19,625 --> 00:33:22,438
But it was only when
I got on stage the first time

629
00:33:22,439 --> 00:33:25,454
and sang in front of a crowd

630
00:33:25,455 --> 00:33:27,135
and I was just about 10 then.

631
00:33:27,136 --> 00:33:29,330
And I sang my song and
they kept bringing me back,

632
00:33:29,331 --> 00:33:31,682
wanted me to sing it, sing it, sing it.

633
00:33:31,683 --> 00:33:33,912
I remember looking up at my uncle, I said,

634
00:33:33,913 --> 00:33:35,690
"I'm gonna be a star, ain't it?"

635
00:33:35,691 --> 00:33:39,353
♪ Well, I have too ♪

636
00:33:39,354 --> 00:33:41,811
That was the moment that I realized

637
00:33:41,812 --> 00:33:45,670
that that was what I was gonna
do for the rest of my life.

638
00:33:45,671 --> 00:33:49,504
♪ I got myself and I have you ♪

639
00:33:52,353 --> 00:33:55,107
"I Cried Again,"
Little Dolly Parton.

640
00:33:55,108 --> 00:33:58,100
I'll never forget when I
went on the tour with her

641
00:33:58,101 --> 00:34:00,265
through Appalachia and the Ozarks,

642
00:34:00,266 --> 00:34:03,806
and I realized the extent
to which Dolly's growing up

643
00:34:03,807 --> 00:34:05,724
in a hollow in a shack,

644
00:34:08,013 --> 00:34:11,253
stimulated these talents in her.

645
00:34:11,254 --> 00:34:15,171
We would go way back in
the most remote hollows

646
00:34:18,130 --> 00:34:21,188
and find these little tar paper shacks.

647
00:34:21,189 --> 00:34:23,588
I'd go to places where entire trees

648
00:34:23,589 --> 00:34:26,553
would have blue milk of magnesia bottles

649
00:34:26,554 --> 00:34:29,554
hanging over them, off the branches.

650
00:34:31,027 --> 00:34:34,075
I'd walk into living rooms that were,

651
00:34:34,076 --> 00:34:35,940
there was nothing but shelves

652
00:34:35,941 --> 00:34:39,686
where salt and pepper
shakers were collected,

653
00:34:39,687 --> 00:34:42,911
or everything was covered with tinfoil.

654
00:34:42,912 --> 00:34:45,446
She took me to church, I
was there on Easter Sunday

655
00:34:45,447 --> 00:34:48,628
and she took me to church,
a little one-room church

656
00:34:48,629 --> 00:34:50,888
with a little wood-burning stove

657
00:34:50,889 --> 00:34:54,390
and the preacher with his
overalls and dirty fingernails

658
00:34:54,391 --> 00:34:57,252
and, you know, no electricity, no radio,

659
00:34:57,253 --> 00:35:00,136
no nothing in these places.

660
00:35:00,137 --> 00:35:01,887
That's Dolly's world.

661
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,207
Why does Dolly need that validation?

662
00:35:08,044 --> 00:35:10,631
I think she just, growing
up in a huge family,

663
00:35:10,632 --> 00:35:14,091
I think she wanted to
stand out and be somebody

664
00:35:14,092 --> 00:35:15,753
and having to grow up poor,

665
00:35:15,754 --> 00:35:20,357
and she just wanted to be
bigger than life Dolly.

666
00:35:20,358 --> 00:35:24,728
Dolly told me once, I had
invited her to our son's wedding,

667
00:35:24,729 --> 00:35:26,628
and people wouldn't let her alone.

668
00:35:26,629 --> 00:35:29,404
They wanted her autograph,
they were just, I mean,

669
00:35:29,405 --> 00:35:33,380
"Take a picture with
me," and the whole night,

670
00:35:33,381 --> 00:35:36,612
she was one after another after another.

671
00:35:36,613 --> 00:35:38,777
And I finally kind of came around, I said,

672
00:35:38,778 --> 00:35:41,327
"Dolly, that's not why
we invited you here,

673
00:35:41,328 --> 00:35:43,756
you know, you don't have to do that."

674
00:35:43,757 --> 00:35:47,476
She said, "Mac, y'all
know me better than that.

675
00:35:47,477 --> 00:35:52,063
All my life, all I've ever
wanted was to be a big star.

676
00:35:52,064 --> 00:35:55,127
And this is just part of the deal."

677
00:35:55,128 --> 00:35:56,856
Hi, this is Little Dolly Parton,

678
00:35:56,857 --> 00:35:58,121
and this is August the 1st,

679
00:35:58,122 --> 00:35:59,422
and we're in Bloomington, Illinois,

680
00:35:59,423 --> 00:36:01,045
and this is our first show.

681
00:36:16,558 --> 00:36:18,808
♪ Hm hm hm ♪

682
00:36:20,556 --> 00:36:22,936
To me, stardom was more than a place,

683
00:36:22,937 --> 00:36:25,521
it was a feeling, it was a fantasy.

684
00:36:25,522 --> 00:36:28,893
It was a world that lived
with inside of my own head

685
00:36:28,894 --> 00:36:30,625
and inside of my own heart.

686
00:36:30,626 --> 00:36:33,010
♪ Well, a good ways down
the railroad track ♪

687
00:36:33,011 --> 00:36:35,213
♪ There was this little
old rundown shack ♪

688
00:36:35,214 --> 00:36:38,335
♪ And in it lived a man I'd never seen ♪

689
00:36:38,336 --> 00:36:41,616
Crossing over to
pop was an ultimate goal,

690
00:36:41,617 --> 00:36:44,939
but it also was a destiny,
it was bound to happen.

691
00:36:44,940 --> 00:36:46,622
♪ Nobody could be that mean ♪

692
00:36:46,623 --> 00:36:49,663
Dolly's one of those
people that breaks that line,

693
00:36:49,664 --> 00:36:51,908
as hillbilly as she might sound,

694
00:36:51,909 --> 00:36:54,074
people understand that she's bright

695
00:36:54,075 --> 00:36:56,097
and she's beautiful inside and out,

696
00:36:56,098 --> 00:36:59,869
and that just automatically
drips off of Dolly.

697
00:36:59,870 --> 00:37:02,605
So she was destined to
go to the other side,

698
00:37:02,606 --> 00:37:04,657
and there was no way to stop that.

699
00:37:04,658 --> 00:37:08,172
She was a rocket ship
taking off, fully loaded.

700
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:14,524
Thank you.

701
00:37:20,512 --> 00:37:25,512
♪ Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene ♪

702
00:37:25,764 --> 00:37:30,764
♪ I'm begging of you
please don't take my man ♪

703
00:37:32,215 --> 00:37:37,215
♪ Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene ♪

704
00:37:37,772 --> 00:37:42,772
♪ Please don't take him
just because you can ♪

705
00:37:43,677 --> 00:37:47,166
Jolene was probably
Dolly's first crossover song,

706
00:37:47,167 --> 00:37:49,956
because it had what we
called a hook, you know,

707
00:37:49,957 --> 00:37:53,540
♪ Ba da da da, ba da da da ♪

708
00:37:56,064 --> 00:37:59,449
It's a gut string guitar,
it's a classical guitar,

709
00:37:59,450 --> 00:38:01,251
it's not a steel string guitar,

710
00:38:01,252 --> 00:38:04,865
that also adds to the
way you hear the guitar.

711
00:38:09,047 --> 00:38:10,943
That whole little guitar sound

712
00:38:10,944 --> 00:38:13,880
is as clever as the little song itself.

713
00:38:13,881 --> 00:38:15,519
And just singing over and over,

714
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,354
♪ Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene ♪

715
00:38:17,355 --> 00:38:18,623
It's like, "How hard can it be?" Like,

716
00:38:18,624 --> 00:38:20,093
♪ I will always love you ♪

717
00:38:20,094 --> 00:38:22,934
And not like
I'm a genius or nothing.

718
00:38:22,935 --> 00:38:25,165
♪ You could have your choice of men ♪

719
00:38:25,166 --> 00:38:27,364
♪ But I could never love again ♪

720
00:38:27,365 --> 00:38:31,513
♪ He's the only one for me, Jolene ♪

721
00:38:31,514 --> 00:38:33,564
There's a few things going on.

722
00:38:33,565 --> 00:38:36,882
One, that riff instantly is the hook.

723
00:38:36,883 --> 00:38:40,724
Oh, but wait a minute,
there's a whole other hook,

724
00:38:40,725 --> 00:38:43,305
because right when you hear that riff,

725
00:38:46,055 --> 00:38:47,179
you go right into,

726
00:38:47,180 --> 00:38:48,782
♪ Jolene, Jolene ♪

727
00:38:48,783 --> 00:38:51,552
It's like the way, the arrangement.

728
00:38:51,553 --> 00:38:56,194
♪ Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene ♪

729
00:38:56,195 --> 00:38:59,758
And in that time,
you're not used to hearing

730
00:38:59,759 --> 00:39:02,734
the chorus start off the song.

731
00:39:02,735 --> 00:39:05,949
"And then is that the verse
is, is there a pre-chorus?

732
00:39:05,950 --> 00:39:08,088
Well, I'm confused, what's going on here?"

733
00:39:08,089 --> 00:39:11,979
But it doesn't matter because
every single part is hooky.

734
00:39:11,980 --> 00:39:14,326
♪ Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene ♪

735
00:39:14,327 --> 00:39:18,930
And then forget about all
that, put the story in there.

736
00:39:18,931 --> 00:39:22,535
Jolene, just that name is amazing.

737
00:39:22,536 --> 00:39:24,883
I wrote this song about 20 years ago

738
00:39:24,884 --> 00:39:27,955
about this woman down in
Nashville that worked at the bank.

739
00:39:27,956 --> 00:39:29,822
She was trying to take care of my husband

740
00:39:29,823 --> 00:39:31,950
while I was out on the road.

741
00:39:31,951 --> 00:39:33,906
Well, that didn't go over too big with me.

742
00:39:33,907 --> 00:39:36,580
I fought that redheaded
woman like a wildcat.

743
00:39:36,581 --> 00:39:39,652
She jerked my wig off and
almost beat me to death with it.

744
00:39:40,995 --> 00:39:43,315
But I kept my husband,
I got that sucker home

745
00:39:43,316 --> 00:39:44,786
and I beat the tar outta him.

746
00:39:44,787 --> 00:39:47,723
We got a whole bunch of
redheaded women down here.

747
00:39:47,724 --> 00:39:50,945
As a matter of fact, Jolene
looked a whole lot like you,

748
00:39:50,946 --> 00:39:53,701
you redheaded hussy.

749
00:39:53,702 --> 00:39:58,397
In "Jolene," Dolly is singing
a song about a cheating man,

750
00:39:58,398 --> 00:40:00,864
but she doesn't address the man at all.

751
00:40:00,865 --> 00:40:04,078
In fact, he seems not to
be relevant to the story.

752
00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:06,624
She's really engaging
with this other woman.

753
00:40:06,625 --> 00:40:08,476
♪ Your beauty is beyond compare ♪

754
00:40:08,477 --> 00:40:10,566
♪ With flaming locks of auburn hair ♪

755
00:40:10,567 --> 00:40:13,160
♪ With ivory skin and
eyes of emerald green ♪

756
00:40:13,161 --> 00:40:16,001
It may seem that she
doesn't have very much power

757
00:40:16,002 --> 00:40:19,471
in that dynamic, but
in fact, she's the one

758
00:40:19,472 --> 00:40:21,017
who speaks all the lines.

759
00:40:21,018 --> 00:40:24,481
♪ And I cannot compete with you, Jolene ♪

760
00:40:24,482 --> 00:40:27,243
"Jolene," I can see Jolene
walking down the street.

761
00:40:27,244 --> 00:40:29,268
I can see Dolly bristling.

762
00:40:29,269 --> 00:40:31,679
Yeah, it's a real art of storytelling,

763
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,047
how to say a lot and paint the picture

764
00:40:34,048 --> 00:40:36,685
in a three-minute or
three-and-a-half-minute song.

765
00:40:36,686 --> 00:40:38,397
♪ Well, he talks about you in his sleep ♪

766
00:40:38,398 --> 00:40:40,491
♪ And there's nothing I can do to keep ♪

767
00:40:40,492 --> 00:40:45,492
♪ From crying when he
calls your name, Jolene ♪

768
00:40:46,990 --> 00:40:49,079
♪ Oh and I can easily understand ♪

769
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,165
♪ How you could easily take my man ♪

770
00:40:51,166 --> 00:40:56,166
♪ But you don't know what
he means to me, Jolene ♪

771
00:40:57,598 --> 00:41:02,598
♪ Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene ♪

772
00:41:02,852 --> 00:41:07,852
♪ I'm begging of you
please don't take my man ♪

773
00:41:09,427 --> 00:41:13,510
♪ Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene ♪

774
00:41:14,580 --> 00:41:16,799
"Jolene" is a song that,

775
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,437
I think, fits a lot of people.

776
00:41:19,438 --> 00:41:21,479
We all are insecure.

777
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,266
♪ Jolene, Jolene ♪

778
00:41:23,267 --> 00:41:25,218
There's always somebody

779
00:41:25,219 --> 00:41:29,078
that could take that person
from you and you're vulnerable.

780
00:41:29,079 --> 00:41:31,606
♪ Please don't take him ♪

781
00:41:31,607 --> 00:41:34,068
♪ Even though you can ♪

782
00:41:34,069 --> 00:41:36,718
It's just that those
little songs just stick

783
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,697
and they just came out and
thank God they're still around.

784
00:41:45,124 --> 00:41:46,918
Good evening, madam.

785
00:41:46,919 --> 00:41:47,963
- Hi.
- Your passport, please.

786
00:41:47,964 --> 00:41:49,642
- Yes, thank you.
- Thank you.

787
00:41:49,643 --> 00:41:50,706
Miss Dolly Parton.

788
00:41:50,707 --> 00:41:51,875
That's right.

789
00:41:51,876 --> 00:41:53,651
And what is the reason for your visit?

790
00:41:53,652 --> 00:41:54,606
I'm a performer.

791
00:41:54,607 --> 00:41:55,976
You're a performer?

792
00:41:58,382 --> 00:42:00,126
I absolutely had a game plan.

793
00:42:00,127 --> 00:42:01,596
I wanted to do everything

794
00:42:01,597 --> 00:42:03,529
that a body could do as an entertainer.

795
00:42:03,530 --> 00:42:06,603
I wanted to be worldwide. I
wanted to get in the movies.

796
00:42:06,604 --> 00:42:11,221
♪ She has so many faces,
she wears so many names ♪

797
00:42:11,222 --> 00:42:12,960
I thought, "Well, if I'm gonna be a star,

798
00:42:12,961 --> 00:42:14,235
why not be a big star?

799
00:42:14,236 --> 00:42:17,739
So my plan was to find
management, to get with a label

800
00:42:17,740 --> 00:42:20,096
that was really going to really support me

801
00:42:20,097 --> 00:42:23,443
as an individual star,
not just part of a group.

802
00:42:23,444 --> 00:42:26,614
She came to me and basically
introduced herself to me

803
00:42:26,615 --> 00:42:29,171
somewhere in the mid seventies.

804
00:42:29,172 --> 00:42:32,529
She just wanted to ask me a
few questions about my career

805
00:42:32,530 --> 00:42:35,253
and how I got started and this and that.

806
00:42:35,254 --> 00:42:38,753
♪ Ba da da, la la la, la la la la la la ♪

807
00:42:38,754 --> 00:42:42,721
It was at the time that
I had a television show

808
00:42:42,722 --> 00:42:47,722
and I said, "Here's my
advice, talk to Sandy Gallin."

809
00:42:47,770 --> 00:42:51,964
And she says, "Well, isn't
he, he's your manager, right?"

810
00:42:51,965 --> 00:42:53,467
And I said, "Yeah."

811
00:42:53,468 --> 00:42:55,633
And she says, "Well, isn't he just,

812
00:42:55,634 --> 00:42:58,219
I mean, he's like a New York guy?"

813
00:42:58,220 --> 00:43:01,256
And I said, "Look, I'm
from Lubbock, Texas.

814
00:43:01,257 --> 00:43:02,996
Look what he did for me."

815
00:43:04,048 --> 00:43:04,880
Thank you.

816
00:43:04,881 --> 00:43:06,834
"I'm signed to Columbia Records.

817
00:43:06,835 --> 00:43:08,775
I've got my own television show.

818
00:43:08,776 --> 00:43:12,123
I mean, this is what he can do for you."

819
00:43:15,778 --> 00:43:20,778
♪ I am a seeker and you are a teacher ♪

820
00:43:21,527 --> 00:43:25,695
♪ You are a reacher, so reach down ♪

821
00:43:25,696 --> 00:43:28,175
I knew relatively little except

822
00:43:28,176 --> 00:43:31,176
that she was a great-looking blonde,

823
00:43:33,479 --> 00:43:35,146
busty country artist

824
00:43:37,708 --> 00:43:39,041
who I had booked

825
00:43:40,303 --> 00:43:43,636
on the Mac Davis variety show in America

826
00:43:45,675 --> 00:43:47,175
and we had dinner.

827
00:43:48,594 --> 00:43:53,099
She played me a new album she
had just finished recording.

828
00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:55,183
I knew without a question

829
00:43:56,134 --> 00:44:00,884
that I was in the presence of
somebody extremely unusual,

830
00:44:03,554 --> 00:44:07,769
unbelievably interesting,
magnificently beautiful

831
00:44:07,770 --> 00:44:11,519
and I couldn't get out of
my mind that I thought,

832
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,853
"She is going to be a
gigantic, gigantic movie star,

833
00:44:18,779 --> 00:44:21,196
television star, media star."

834
00:44:22,713 --> 00:44:24,463
I just thought, okay,

835
00:44:25,528 --> 00:44:29,528
how do we expose the whole
world to this person?

836
00:44:33,653 --> 00:44:36,403
I thought having a pop hit record

837
00:44:38,903 --> 00:44:41,570
would bring her to the attention

838
00:44:42,491 --> 00:44:46,074
of millions of fans
that had not known her.

839
00:44:47,567 --> 00:44:51,270
♪ Here you come again ♪

840
00:44:51,271 --> 00:44:55,892
♪ Just when I've begun
to get myself together ♪

841
00:44:55,893 --> 00:45:00,680
♪ You waltz right in the door
just like you've done before ♪

842
00:45:00,681 --> 00:45:05,681
♪ And wrap my heart round
your little finger ♪

843
00:45:05,901 --> 00:45:08,535
I don't ever wanna
get myself pigeonholed

844
00:45:08,536 --> 00:45:11,501
where people think I cannot
do anything but one thing

845
00:45:11,502 --> 00:45:14,401
or that they put me in a place
to where I'm not allowed to.

846
00:45:14,402 --> 00:45:17,148
I won't allow that to happen
either 'cause I love being able

847
00:45:17,149 --> 00:45:19,505
to express myself in
any way I feel like it.

848
00:45:19,506 --> 00:45:21,057
♪ And here I go ♪

849
00:45:29,912 --> 00:45:33,070
Why would Dolly sing
somebody else's song?

850
00:45:33,071 --> 00:45:37,660
Dolly is smart and Dolly
knows as a songwriter,

851
00:45:37,661 --> 00:45:40,540
she knew a hit song when she heard it,

852
00:45:40,541 --> 00:45:45,120
♪ And shaking me up so,
that all I really know ♪

853
00:45:45,121 --> 00:45:46,605
♪ Is here you come again ♪

854
00:45:46,606 --> 00:45:48,370
She's known so well as a songwriter,

855
00:45:48,371 --> 00:45:52,026
I'm sure that people gave her
credit for writing this song

856
00:45:52,027 --> 00:45:54,036
and probably still do to this day.

857
00:45:54,037 --> 00:45:58,599
♪ Here I go ♪

858
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,258
♪ Here you come again ♪

859
00:46:01,259 --> 00:46:04,497
I mean, you never know 100%,

860
00:46:04,498 --> 00:46:07,763
but this sounded absolutely
on the nose like a hit song.

861
00:46:07,764 --> 00:46:10,765
♪ Here you come again ♪

862
00:46:10,766 --> 00:46:15,646
And she recorded it and
it was a number one record.

863
00:46:15,647 --> 00:46:18,504
♪ Here you come again ♪

864
00:46:18,505 --> 00:46:21,034
Thank you!

865
00:46:21,035 --> 00:46:23,754
And she became that big
star almost overnight.

866
00:46:23,755 --> 00:46:27,897
"The Carson Show," everybody
wanted her and she was funny.

867
00:46:27,898 --> 00:46:32,570
I believe it was Carson that
asked her why she bought

868
00:46:32,571 --> 00:46:36,566
her family's little cabin
up in the Tennessee Hills,

869
00:46:36,567 --> 00:46:38,548
and she said, "Well, every now and then,

870
00:46:38,549 --> 00:46:41,287
a girl just wants to
go pee off the porch."

871
00:46:41,288 --> 00:46:44,006
And that's her.

872
00:46:49,059 --> 00:46:50,608
Well, we've arrived.

873
00:46:50,609 --> 00:46:52,052
Ah, looks like a dormitory.

874
00:46:52,053 --> 00:46:53,176
Well, it kind of does.

875
00:46:53,177 --> 00:46:55,332
Actually, I have three
closets in this room,

876
00:46:55,333 --> 00:46:57,196
but this one is the most special

877
00:46:57,197 --> 00:46:59,937
because this holds all of my stage clothes

878
00:46:59,938 --> 00:47:02,474
and all of these clothes
are are hand washable.

879
00:47:02,475 --> 00:47:04,859
I just put them in the
sink in a motel room.

880
00:47:04,860 --> 00:47:06,660
I just rinse them out,
they're wrinkle free,

881
00:47:06,661 --> 00:47:08,069
I don't have to iron them.

882
00:47:08,070 --> 00:47:10,827
Okay, now this is my couch,
also, this is my bed.

883
00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:14,151
And then up here in these
cabinets are my wigs.

884
00:47:14,152 --> 00:47:17,651
So here's another Dolly and
another one and another one.

885
00:47:17,652 --> 00:47:19,596
You don't have to look like this.

886
00:47:19,597 --> 00:47:20,729
You're very beautiful.

887
00:47:20,730 --> 00:47:22,398
You don't have to wear the blonde wigs,

888
00:47:22,399 --> 00:47:25,139
you don't have to wear the
extreme clothes, right?

889
00:47:25,140 --> 00:47:27,279
No, it's certainly a choice.

890
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,397
I don't like to be like everybody else.

891
00:47:29,398 --> 00:47:30,982
I've often made this statement

892
00:47:30,983 --> 00:47:33,522
that I would never stoop so
low as to be fashionable,

893
00:47:33,523 --> 00:47:35,529
that's the easiest thing
in the world to do.

894
00:47:35,530 --> 00:47:37,857
So I just decided that
I would do something

895
00:47:37,858 --> 00:47:39,748
that would at least get the attention.

896
00:47:39,749 --> 00:47:41,797
Once they got past the shock

897
00:47:41,798 --> 00:47:43,999
of the ridiculous way
I looked and all that,

898
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:48,046
then they would see there was
parts of me to be appreciated.

899
00:47:48,047 --> 00:47:50,740
Show business is a money-making joke

900
00:47:50,741 --> 00:47:53,549
and I just always like
telling jokes, you know.

901
00:47:53,550 --> 00:47:55,798
But do you ever feel that you're a joke,

902
00:47:55,799 --> 00:47:57,344
that people make fun of you?

903
00:47:57,345 --> 00:47:59,347
Oh, I know they make fun of me.

904
00:47:59,348 --> 00:48:01,034
But actually all these years,

905
00:48:01,035 --> 00:48:03,910
the people, you know, has
thought the joke was on me,

906
00:48:03,911 --> 00:48:05,651
but it's actually been on the public.

907
00:48:05,652 --> 00:48:07,132
I know exactly what I'm doing

908
00:48:07,133 --> 00:48:09,215
and I can change it at any time.

909
00:48:09,216 --> 00:48:13,824
♪ A pair of false eyelashes ♪

910
00:48:13,825 --> 00:48:16,414
♪ And a tube of cheap lipstick ♪

911
00:48:16,415 --> 00:48:18,287
She's an entity that exists

912
00:48:18,288 --> 00:48:22,038
and she's kept it alive
for how many decades?

913
00:48:23,003 --> 00:48:25,169
So I think it's partly her now.

914
00:48:25,170 --> 00:48:26,853
I mean, if it wasn't her before,

915
00:48:26,854 --> 00:48:29,864
which I think it partly was,

916
00:48:29,865 --> 00:48:33,124
I think it's certainly
instilled itself in her so much

917
00:48:33,125 --> 00:48:37,006
that she is who she is,
even though she isn't.

918
00:48:37,007 --> 00:48:38,541
♪ Is my only claim to fame ♪

919
00:48:38,542 --> 00:48:41,258
I was very
unusual at a very early age.

920
00:48:41,259 --> 00:48:44,361
There was this woman in our hometown

921
00:48:44,362 --> 00:48:46,958
and she was called the town tramp.

922
00:48:46,959 --> 00:48:49,743
I don't know what you'd
call a loose woman.

923
00:48:49,744 --> 00:48:52,957
The ones that throw it
around a bit, as they say.

924
00:48:52,958 --> 00:48:54,789
That's all, boys.

925
00:48:55,647 --> 00:48:57,345
And as a little child,

926
00:48:57,346 --> 00:48:59,381
when we ever did get to go to town,

927
00:48:59,382 --> 00:49:02,482
I would see this woman walking
up and down the streets.

928
00:49:02,483 --> 00:49:05,222
She had a short skirt,
she had beautiful skin

929
00:49:05,223 --> 00:49:07,611
and I remember saying,
"Oh, she's so pretty.

930
00:49:07,612 --> 00:49:08,560
She's so pretty."

931
00:49:08,561 --> 00:49:11,877
Mom would say, "Oh, she's just trash."

932
00:49:11,878 --> 00:49:13,500
And so I thought in my mind,

933
00:49:13,501 --> 00:49:16,510
"That's what I wanna be
when I grow up, trash."

934
00:49:16,511 --> 00:49:20,770
I used to think that being
self-conscious was pejorative.

935
00:49:20,771 --> 00:49:24,433
But Dolly is a good example of someone

936
00:49:24,434 --> 00:49:26,851
who is very conscious of self

937
00:49:28,234 --> 00:49:31,651
and has created a mythic iconic character

938
00:49:32,974 --> 00:49:37,724
that's partly, well, I think
that's entirely real, but...

939
00:49:39,751 --> 00:49:41,286
Enhanced.

940
00:49:41,287 --> 00:49:44,831
How does Dolly have such a small waist?

941
00:49:44,832 --> 00:49:46,415
It just puzzles me.

942
00:49:47,607 --> 00:49:50,765
I mean, her waist is profoundly small.

943
00:49:50,766 --> 00:49:53,183
All right, Barbie mode!

944
00:49:53,184 --> 00:49:55,709
♪ I'm just a backwoods Barbie ♪

945
00:49:55,710 --> 00:49:58,942
♪ Too much makeup, too much hair ♪

946
00:49:58,943 --> 00:50:02,652
That's her brand, that's her thing,

947
00:50:02,653 --> 00:50:04,717
and she's never walked away from it

948
00:50:04,718 --> 00:50:08,468
because I feel if Dolly
were to look at Dolly

949
00:50:10,391 --> 00:50:11,224
and Dolly,

950
00:50:12,934 --> 00:50:17,132
that the Dolly that is the
singer that everybody knows,

951
00:50:17,133 --> 00:50:18,883
Dolly owes, you know,

952
00:50:19,771 --> 00:50:23,810
and gives credit and respects and honors.

953
00:50:23,811 --> 00:50:27,493
So it's like, "Well, I'm not
gonna get rid of you now.

954
00:50:27,494 --> 00:50:29,652
You've done so well for me.

955
00:50:29,653 --> 00:50:32,411
You know, and you and I
have been a great team."

956
00:50:32,412 --> 00:50:35,027
It's like, I almost think
there's two people there.

957
00:50:35,028 --> 00:50:38,473
♪ Just a backwoods Barbie ♪

958
00:50:43,259 --> 00:50:46,263
Well, hello out there, London!

959
00:50:46,264 --> 00:50:49,785
Is everybody feeling good tonight?

960
00:50:49,786 --> 00:50:51,367
I wanna say a great big hello

961
00:50:51,368 --> 00:50:54,652
to the most exciting and
beautiful city in the world,

962
00:50:54,653 --> 00:50:57,548
and the sweetest people I've ever known.

963
00:50:57,549 --> 00:50:59,507
I know everybody must be ready

964
00:50:59,508 --> 00:51:02,037
for me to start sooner or later, right?

965
00:51:02,038 --> 00:51:05,396
Well, everybody clap
your hands along with me.

966
00:51:05,397 --> 00:51:08,401
How about you folks, are we ready?

967
00:51:08,402 --> 00:51:12,020
Then I guess I'm the only
one that's dragging my feet.

968
00:51:12,021 --> 00:51:13,796
The concert we did in London,

969
00:51:13,797 --> 00:51:16,735
we were there for a
week to make this show.

970
00:51:16,736 --> 00:51:20,341
We got to play for all these great people.

971
00:51:20,342 --> 00:51:23,092
That was the time in London when,

972
00:51:25,855 --> 00:51:29,443
over here, we called people
like, we called them punks,

973
00:51:29,444 --> 00:51:32,043
the way they wore the
mohawks and everything.

974
00:51:32,044 --> 00:51:34,319
And of course, that was great for Dolly

975
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,401
because her look is unique as well.

976
00:51:37,402 --> 00:51:41,028
So there was just like kind
of a connection between her

977
00:51:41,029 --> 00:51:43,684
and that part of the audience.

978
00:51:43,685 --> 00:51:44,710
♪ You got me ♪

979
00:51:44,711 --> 00:51:46,812
♪ You got me on fire ♪

980
00:51:46,813 --> 00:51:50,744
It was just a wonderful
time, wonderful experience.

981
00:51:53,184 --> 00:51:56,933
Well, I knew you was
gonna be fun to party with.

982
00:51:56,934 --> 00:51:59,859
I know a fun crowd when I see one.

983
00:51:59,860 --> 00:52:02,663
Well, lordy, lordy!

984
00:52:02,664 --> 00:52:05,939
I've learned a lot from a lot
of people just being a sponge.

985
00:52:05,940 --> 00:52:09,193
Ain't it amazing what some
people will do for attention?

986
00:52:10,127 --> 00:52:11,617
How to kind of pace yourself,

987
00:52:11,618 --> 00:52:15,064
how to put your jokes
in with your dialogue

988
00:52:15,065 --> 00:52:17,127
and your timing, your dynamics.

989
00:52:17,128 --> 00:52:19,237
And this one with the purple
and green and blue hair

990
00:52:19,238 --> 00:52:20,323
went like this.

991
00:52:22,198 --> 00:52:24,927
And I thought, "Well, I
don't think my fans back home

992
00:52:24,928 --> 00:52:27,068
and I don't think my fans here in London

993
00:52:27,069 --> 00:52:28,864
would want that to happen to me."

994
00:52:28,865 --> 00:52:31,094
So I went like that back. Is that okay?

995
00:52:33,394 --> 00:52:38,181
I think a lot of comedians
would be jealous of her timing

996
00:52:38,182 --> 00:52:42,017
and natural comedic ability,
she just definitely had that.

997
00:52:43,605 --> 00:52:46,438
By the time the show's
over, I'm just getting started

998
00:52:46,439 --> 00:52:49,465
and it takes me sometimes three
or four hours to come down

999
00:52:49,466 --> 00:52:51,136
from just being overexcited.

1000
00:52:51,137 --> 00:52:54,516
And so sometimes, I write my
best songs after a performance

1001
00:52:54,517 --> 00:52:57,180
because of the audience
and their reaction.

1002
00:53:01,392 --> 00:53:03,068
I suppose the last two years,

1003
00:53:03,069 --> 00:53:05,714
we've worked about 200 days on the road,

1004
00:53:05,715 --> 00:53:09,223
which is a lot more than we should work.

1005
00:53:09,224 --> 00:53:11,560
But I can write pretty good on the road

1006
00:53:11,561 --> 00:53:14,024
because when we travel from city to city,

1007
00:53:14,025 --> 00:53:16,108
there's not that much to do.

1008
00:53:18,303 --> 00:53:19,720
Hello?

1009
00:53:20,703 --> 00:53:23,109
Tell him I'm not
here, tell him I'm not here.

1010
00:53:23,110 --> 00:53:26,139
She isn't here right now.

1011
00:53:26,140 --> 00:53:28,100
Dolly's writing all the time.

1012
00:53:28,101 --> 00:53:29,700
I'll call her on the phone

1013
00:53:29,701 --> 00:53:32,800
and she'll say, "Hey, I'm writing."

1014
00:53:32,801 --> 00:53:34,982
So I just say, "All right,
I'll call you back."

1015
00:53:34,983 --> 00:53:35,871
You know what I mean?

1016
00:53:35,872 --> 00:53:39,817
I don't want to, you know,
stifle her creativity.

1017
00:53:39,818 --> 00:53:41,473
She writes almost every day.

1018
00:53:41,474 --> 00:53:44,768
She writes a song a day, maybe more.

1019
00:53:44,769 --> 00:53:48,183
Just like "I Will Always
Love You" and "Jolene"

1020
00:53:48,184 --> 00:53:51,421
were written on the same evening.

1021
00:53:54,404 --> 00:53:56,901
I want to do a song for you now

1022
00:53:56,902 --> 00:53:59,221
that's kind of a special
little song to me.

1023
00:53:59,222 --> 00:54:01,120
A lot of folks that follow my career

1024
00:54:01,121 --> 00:54:03,363
know that I write a lot of sad songs

1025
00:54:03,364 --> 00:54:05,452
and this one is absolutely pitiful.

1026
00:54:07,892 --> 00:54:08,941
It's true.

1027
00:54:12,501 --> 00:54:16,584
It's a story about a little
girl and a puppy dog.

1028
00:54:18,785 --> 00:54:23,785
♪ Late one cold and stormy
night I heard a dog a-barking ♪

1029
00:54:24,556 --> 00:54:29,556
♪ Then I thought I heard
somebody at my door a-knocking ♪

1030
00:54:30,103 --> 00:54:35,103
♪ I wondered who would be
outside in such an awful storm ♪

1031
00:54:35,780 --> 00:54:40,780
♪ Then I saw a little girl
with a puppy in her arms ♪

1032
00:54:43,169 --> 00:54:48,169
♪ Before I could say a word,
she said, my name is Sandy ♪

1033
00:54:48,780 --> 00:54:53,780
♪ And this here is my puppy dog
and his name is Little Andy ♪

1034
00:54:54,500 --> 00:54:56,203
I write a lot of simple songs

1035
00:54:56,204 --> 00:54:59,426
because I'm limited, to a degree,

1036
00:54:59,427 --> 00:55:03,485
as far as, you know, melodies
and see, I don't know music.

1037
00:55:03,486 --> 00:55:07,400
I totally write by heart and
I play my instruments by ear.

1038
00:55:07,401 --> 00:55:12,401
I'm just a natural musician and
a natural singer-songwriter.

1039
00:55:12,933 --> 00:55:16,395
I don't know how to sing, never
tried to learn how to sing,

1040
00:55:16,396 --> 00:55:17,515
I just sing.

1041
00:55:17,516 --> 00:55:20,640
♪ Giddy up, trotty horse,
going to the mill ♪

1042
00:55:20,641 --> 00:55:23,317
♪ Can we stay the night ♪

1043
00:55:23,318 --> 00:55:26,094
♪ If you don't love us, no one will ♪

1044
00:55:26,095 --> 00:55:28,475
♪ I promise we won't cry ♪

1045
00:55:28,476 --> 00:55:30,384
I don't think people always understand

1046
00:55:30,385 --> 00:55:32,425
that she's a really good guitar player.

1047
00:55:32,426 --> 00:55:35,190
She really can play really well

1048
00:55:35,191 --> 00:55:37,812
and she doesn't play all
that much on her shows,

1049
00:55:37,813 --> 00:55:40,869
but she's fully capable of walking out

1050
00:55:40,870 --> 00:55:44,538
and doing it completely
by herself, if she had to.

1051
00:55:44,539 --> 00:55:49,347
♪ She was just a little girl,
not more than six or seven ♪

1052
00:55:49,348 --> 00:55:51,507
♪ But that night, as they slept ♪

1053
00:55:51,508 --> 00:55:54,973
♪ The angels took them both to heaven ♪

1054
00:55:54,974 --> 00:55:59,601
♪ God knew little Andy would
be lonesome with her gone ♪

1055
00:55:59,602 --> 00:56:04,602
♪ Now Sandy and her puppy
dog won't ever be alone ♪

1056
00:56:06,586 --> 00:56:09,306
♪ Ain't ya got no gingerbread ♪

1057
00:56:09,307 --> 00:56:11,540
♪ Ain't ya got no candy ♪

1058
00:56:11,541 --> 00:56:16,541
♪ Ain't ya got an extra bed
for me and little Andy ♪

1059
00:56:17,607 --> 00:56:18,439
Thank you.

1060
00:56:27,619 --> 00:56:30,756
I think Dolly likes to move on.

1061
00:56:30,757 --> 00:56:34,090
She only likes to chew her tobacco once.

1062
00:56:36,219 --> 00:56:39,518
I thought she was a natural actress

1063
00:56:39,519 --> 00:56:43,686
and I just wanted to bring
her to the whole world.

1064
00:56:47,259 --> 00:56:49,312
I hadn't wanted to do any movies

1065
00:56:49,313 --> 00:56:51,886
until a right thing come along,
'cause I'm not an actress,

1066
00:56:51,887 --> 00:56:53,770
I've never taken an
acting lesson in my life

1067
00:56:53,771 --> 00:56:55,519
and you'd have to be something

1068
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:59,154
that was pretty much close
to me, to my personality.

1069
00:56:59,155 --> 00:57:02,609
But Jane Fonda came up with
this idea to do "9 to 5"

1070
00:57:02,610 --> 00:57:04,441
about women in the workplace.

1071
00:57:04,442 --> 00:57:07,502
Why Dolly
Parton, what gave you that idea?

1072
00:57:07,503 --> 00:57:10,255
She's not done a movie in her life, huh?

1073
00:57:10,256 --> 00:57:14,339
No, no, but she's, I've
been a fan of her music

1074
00:57:15,486 --> 00:57:19,427
and even more particularly,
of her as a songwriter.

1075
00:57:19,428 --> 00:57:20,984
It was pow!

1076
00:57:20,985 --> 00:57:22,902
It was a visceral sense

1077
00:57:23,966 --> 00:57:28,825
that Dolly Parton had to
be a secretary in "9 to 5."

1078
00:57:28,826 --> 00:57:31,708
I was driving home from
having just seen Lily Tomlin

1079
00:57:31,709 --> 00:57:34,268
for the first time in her one-woman show

1080
00:57:34,269 --> 00:57:36,824
called "Appearing Nightly."

1081
00:57:36,825 --> 00:57:39,575
And I was totally smitten by Lily

1082
00:57:40,673 --> 00:57:43,847
and I said to myself, "I
don't wanna be in a movie

1083
00:57:43,848 --> 00:57:47,111
which I was producing about secretaries

1084
00:57:47,112 --> 00:57:49,841
unless Lily Tomlin is in it too."

1085
00:57:49,842 --> 00:57:51,545
Driving home, turn on the radio,

1086
00:57:51,546 --> 00:57:54,361
"Two Doors Down" is playing

1087
00:57:54,362 --> 00:57:57,169
and I suddenly get an
image of Dolly Parton

1088
00:57:57,170 --> 00:58:00,083
sitting at a typewriter,

1089
00:58:00,084 --> 00:58:03,666
and I thought that would be something

1090
00:58:03,667 --> 00:58:07,218
to have Dolly Parton in her first movie,

1091
00:58:07,219 --> 00:58:10,928
playing a secretary in a movie
that among many other things

1092
00:58:10,929 --> 00:58:14,096
is gonna touch upon sexual harassment.

1093
00:58:15,485 --> 00:58:16,691
She's perfect.

1094
00:58:16,692 --> 00:58:18,496
And here's to the beginning!

1095
00:58:18,497 --> 00:58:21,219
When Jane came to me with it,

1096
00:58:21,220 --> 00:58:24,335
I said, "Well, this is a good opportunity,

1097
00:58:24,336 --> 00:58:28,890
but I'll only do it if I
can write the theme song."

1098
00:58:28,891 --> 00:58:31,470
So they said, "Okay." I said, "Okay."

1099
00:58:32,304 --> 00:58:33,934
I thought, "Well, I will do it

1100
00:58:33,935 --> 00:58:37,287
because Jane Fonda is a huge
star and Lily Tomlin was.

1101
00:58:37,288 --> 00:58:39,539
And I always thought,
"Well, if it's a big hit,

1102
00:58:39,540 --> 00:58:41,664
then I'll get, you know, the glory of it

1103
00:58:41,665 --> 00:58:43,280
like them with Lily and Jane,

1104
00:58:43,281 --> 00:58:45,775
and if it's a flop, I
can blame it on them."

1105
00:58:45,776 --> 00:58:49,045
Well, welcome
to the front lines.

1106
00:58:49,046 --> 00:58:53,501
"9 to 5" is about working
women in the workforce

1107
00:58:53,502 --> 00:58:55,786
and their relationship to the boss

1108
00:58:55,787 --> 00:58:59,213
and however the corporate
culture imposes itself on them.

1109
00:58:59,214 --> 00:59:01,136
Hi Violet, how's everything going?

1110
00:59:01,137 --> 00:59:05,013
She plays a abundantly
sexy secretary to the boss

1111
00:59:05,014 --> 00:59:08,235
who is an object of
harassment on a daily basis.

1112
00:59:08,236 --> 00:59:11,383
And she's really a nice,
innocent, southern girl

1113
00:59:11,384 --> 00:59:15,884
who sings a song and plays
a guitar and has a husband.

1114
00:59:17,647 --> 00:59:20,371
And she just is shocked and amazed

1115
00:59:20,372 --> 00:59:22,760
that the boss is hitting
on her all the time.

1116
00:59:22,761 --> 00:59:25,760
Mr. Hart, I've told you
before, I'm a married woman.

1117
00:59:25,761 --> 00:59:28,456
And I'm a married man, that's
what makes it so perfect.

1118
00:59:28,457 --> 00:59:29,761
Oh, Mr. Hart.

1119
00:59:29,762 --> 00:59:31,818
And of course, all the
other girls in the office,

1120
00:59:31,819 --> 00:59:34,757
they don't like her 'cause
they think she's a floozy.

1121
00:59:34,758 --> 00:59:36,677
So you've been telling everybody

1122
00:59:36,678 --> 00:59:38,015
I'm sleeping with you, huh?

1123
00:59:38,016 --> 00:59:39,234
- No.
- Well, that explains it.

1124
00:59:39,235 --> 00:59:40,450
That's why these people treat me

1125
00:59:40,451 --> 00:59:41,746
like some dime store floozy.

1126
00:59:41,747 --> 00:59:42,579
No, it's not.

1127
00:59:42,580 --> 00:59:43,871
They think I'm screwing the boss.

1128
00:59:43,872 --> 00:59:44,914
That's not it at all.

1129
00:59:44,915 --> 00:59:46,821
Oh, and you just love it, don't you?

1130
00:59:46,822 --> 00:59:48,882
It gives you some sort of cheap thrill,

1131
00:59:48,883 --> 00:59:50,999
like knocking over pencils
and picking up papers.

1132
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:52,202
Doralee, now let's don't get excited.

1133
00:59:52,203 --> 00:59:53,737
Get your scummy hands off of me.

1134
00:59:53,738 --> 00:59:57,095
Well, it was kind of
modeled on her personality.

1135
00:59:57,096 --> 00:59:58,596
Dolly grew up poor

1136
00:59:59,521 --> 01:00:02,521
in the sense of material advantages.

1137
01:00:03,687 --> 01:00:06,182
So she knows what it feels like

1138
01:00:06,183 --> 01:00:09,093
to be put upon, to be challenged,

1139
01:00:09,094 --> 01:00:12,052
and I'm sure she's been
sexually harassed in her life.

1140
01:00:12,053 --> 01:00:14,128
Look, I got a gun out there in my purse

1141
01:00:14,129 --> 01:00:16,092
and up to now, I've been
forgiving and forgetting

1142
01:00:16,093 --> 01:00:17,556
because of the way I was brought up,

1143
01:00:17,557 --> 01:00:18,708
but I'll tell you one thing.

1144
01:00:18,709 --> 01:00:20,644
If you ever say another word about me

1145
01:00:20,645 --> 01:00:22,329
or make another indecent proposal,

1146
01:00:22,330 --> 01:00:25,113
I'm gonna get that gun of
mine and I'm gonna change you

1147
01:00:25,114 --> 01:00:27,374
from a rooster to a hen with one shot.

1148
01:00:27,375 --> 01:00:30,160
It was fun, and
it was such a joy to make,

1149
01:00:30,161 --> 01:00:32,788
but I wasn't intimidated
by them 'cause like I say,

1150
01:00:32,789 --> 01:00:34,340
I have all these sisters too.

1151
01:00:34,341 --> 01:00:36,691
I have all these sisters
and aunts, I love women,

1152
01:00:36,692 --> 01:00:39,180
you know, it's like I
know the nature of women.

1153
01:00:39,181 --> 01:00:41,913
So it was just like having
two new girlfriends.

1154
01:00:41,914 --> 01:00:43,385
We just liked each other

1155
01:00:43,386 --> 01:00:46,427
and we had an automatic camaraderie.

1156
01:00:46,428 --> 01:00:49,689
I think we each fancied we
were lighting up the room.

1157
01:00:49,690 --> 01:00:51,776
I used to say, "We, each one of us,

1158
01:00:51,777 --> 01:00:54,301
thought we were the one in the middle."

1159
01:00:54,302 --> 01:00:58,667
Jane was so political, so
active. I was a lesbian.

1160
01:00:58,668 --> 01:01:02,405
And so Dolly naturally
thought she was in the middle.

1161
01:01:02,406 --> 01:01:05,865
You cannot finish a day with Dolly

1162
01:01:05,866 --> 01:01:09,147
without laughing so hard that
you have to cross your legs.

1163
01:01:10,300 --> 01:01:12,018
When we were starting "9 to 5,"

1164
01:01:12,019 --> 01:01:13,734
we were trying to get really chummy

1165
01:01:13,735 --> 01:01:15,658
and we went to the Beverly Hills Hotel

1166
01:01:15,659 --> 01:01:20,106
and we had two or three
pajama parties.

1167
01:01:20,107 --> 01:01:21,618
But Dolly, I don't remember Dolly

1168
01:01:21,619 --> 01:01:25,156
ever really confiding anything to us.

1169
01:01:25,157 --> 01:01:28,240
She just sets a boundary for herself.

1170
01:01:30,232 --> 01:01:33,824
I've never seen Dolly without a wig,

1171
01:01:33,825 --> 01:01:37,779
to this day, I've never
seen Dolly without her hair.

1172
01:01:37,780 --> 01:01:41,471
You know, during the entire
time that I was with her,

1173
01:01:41,472 --> 01:01:46,111
when she came out of her
bedroom, she was done,

1174
01:01:46,112 --> 01:01:50,945
it was all, you know, I never
saw her without her regalia.

1175
01:01:52,568 --> 01:01:56,735
She's an utter professional.
I was very impressed.

1176
01:01:59,509 --> 01:02:01,928
When I said, "I wanna
write the theme song,"

1177
01:02:01,929 --> 01:02:05,637
I'd read the script, but
I wanted to get a feel

1178
01:02:05,638 --> 01:02:07,954
for what was going on on the set.

1179
01:02:07,955 --> 01:02:10,366
They just do a few lines a day sometimes,

1180
01:02:10,367 --> 01:02:12,463
and I'm just such an antsy little person.

1181
01:02:12,464 --> 01:02:14,818
I'm just like a wiggle
worm, I can't be still.

1182
01:02:14,819 --> 01:02:18,326
So here I am in my trailer
waiting for lights to be set up

1183
01:02:18,327 --> 01:02:20,154
and I thought, "What am I gonna do?"

1184
01:02:20,155 --> 01:02:22,151
I thought, "Well, I
guess I'll write songs."

1185
01:02:22,152 --> 01:02:24,292
So I would just walk around on the set,

1186
01:02:24,293 --> 01:02:26,164
you know, I wear acrylic nails

1187
01:02:26,165 --> 01:02:28,471
and I thought, "Well,
I'm gonna, you know,"

1188
01:02:28,472 --> 01:02:29,690
I would play the nails

1189
01:02:29,691 --> 01:02:31,755
and I'd come up with little, little things

1190
01:02:31,756 --> 01:02:33,215
that I would see on the set, like,

1191
01:02:33,216 --> 01:02:36,096
♪ I tumble outta bed and
stumble to the kitchen ♪

1192
01:02:36,097 --> 01:02:37,532
♪ Pour myself a cup ♪

1193
01:02:37,533 --> 01:02:40,149
And I thought, "Wow, that
sounds like a typewriter."

1194
01:02:40,150 --> 01:02:42,938
One memorable moment that Lily and I

1195
01:02:42,939 --> 01:02:45,334
talk about from time
to time was the morning

1196
01:02:45,335 --> 01:02:48,130
that Dolly came to work
and motioned us over

1197
01:02:48,131 --> 01:02:50,881
and just outside the set, she said,

1198
01:02:50,882 --> 01:02:53,976
"I've just written the song."

1199
01:02:53,977 --> 01:02:57,157
And she used her long nails as a washboard

1200
01:02:57,158 --> 01:02:58,991
and she sang "9 to 5."

1201
01:03:00,330 --> 01:03:04,610
And Lily and I looked at each
other and we had goosebumps.

1202
01:03:04,611 --> 01:03:06,928
Jane Fonda and I were
just flabbergasted,

1203
01:03:06,929 --> 01:03:09,487
we thought it was so great.

1204
01:03:09,488 --> 01:03:11,943
I said to Jane, "This
will make the movie a hit,

1205
01:03:11,944 --> 01:03:12,864
if nothing else."

1206
01:03:12,865 --> 01:03:15,186
♪ Tumble outta bed and I
stumble to the kitchen ♪

1207
01:03:15,187 --> 01:03:17,368
♪ Pour myself a cup of ambition ♪

1208
01:03:17,369 --> 01:03:22,303
♪ And yawn and stretch
and try to come to life ♪

1209
01:03:22,304 --> 01:03:24,950
♪ Jump in the shower and
the blood starts pumping ♪

1210
01:03:24,951 --> 01:03:27,076
♪ Out on the street, the
traffic starts jumping ♪

1211
01:03:27,077 --> 01:03:31,051
♪ The folks like me on
the job from 9 to 5 ♪

1212
01:03:31,052 --> 01:03:33,435
And we knew this is
not just a movie song,

1213
01:03:33,436 --> 01:03:34,631
this is an anthem.

1214
01:03:34,632 --> 01:03:39,129
♪ Working 9 to 5, what
a way to make a living ♪

1215
01:03:39,130 --> 01:03:43,746
♪ Barely getting by, it's
all taking and no giving ♪

1216
01:03:43,747 --> 01:03:45,375
Jane said, "Oh, we love it, we love it.

1217
01:03:45,376 --> 01:03:46,963
You gotta finish it, you gotta finish it."

1218
01:03:46,964 --> 01:03:49,212
So I kind of spread it out on purpose,

1219
01:03:49,213 --> 01:03:51,754
so it'd be kinda like one
of our little fun things,

1220
01:03:51,755 --> 01:03:54,114
our little hobby of "What
did you write tonight?

1221
01:03:54,115 --> 01:03:55,121
What did you write?"

1222
01:03:55,122 --> 01:03:57,127
And I had 100 verses on that I didn't use

1223
01:03:57,128 --> 01:03:59,868
just 'cause I was writing
about everything, even comedy,

1224
01:03:59,869 --> 01:04:02,010
even stuff that I knew
wasn't gonna be used,

1225
01:04:02,011 --> 01:04:03,481
just real things that happened.

1226
01:04:03,482 --> 01:04:05,985
When I had to narrow it
down to do it as a record,

1227
01:04:05,986 --> 01:04:08,020
I brought all the women on the show

1228
01:04:08,021 --> 01:04:11,740
to come in and sing background
on it, and I played nails.

1229
01:04:11,741 --> 01:04:16,129
And on the record, it says,
"Nails by me."

1230
01:04:16,130 --> 01:04:19,899
♪ Mmm ♪

1231
01:04:19,900 --> 01:04:22,539
♪ But they let you dream
just to watch 'em shatter ♪

1232
01:04:22,540 --> 01:04:24,946
♪ You're just a step on
the boss-man's ladder ♪

1233
01:04:24,947 --> 01:04:29,009
♪ But you got dreams
he'll never take away ♪

1234
01:04:29,010 --> 01:04:33,451
A song like "9 to 5,"
everyone could relate to.

1235
01:04:33,452 --> 01:04:35,696
And from a woman's standpoint,

1236
01:04:35,697 --> 01:04:39,117
like a lot of those lyrics are so like,

1237
01:04:39,118 --> 01:04:41,550
they're kind of hitting
on some hot buttons

1238
01:04:41,551 --> 01:04:43,921
that we're still talking about today.

1239
01:04:43,922 --> 01:04:47,615
♪ Barely getting by, it's
all taking and no giving ♪

1240
01:04:47,616 --> 01:04:50,777
Any song that has the word living in it,

1241
01:04:50,778 --> 01:04:53,045
L-I-V-I-N apostrophe is a country song,

1242
01:04:53,046 --> 01:04:55,682
You know, pop, it's
popular, it's popular.

1243
01:04:55,683 --> 01:04:59,358
So she made country music,
she gave it a wider audience,

1244
01:04:59,359 --> 01:05:01,561
you know, made it even more popular.

1245
01:05:01,562 --> 01:05:05,997
♪ You would think that I would
deserve a fair promotion ♪

1246
01:05:05,998 --> 01:05:08,659
"9 to 5" was very successful.

1247
01:05:08,660 --> 01:05:11,860
I think it was the second highest
grossing film of the year,

1248
01:05:11,861 --> 01:05:15,658
which was remarkable for a woman-led film.

1249
01:05:15,659 --> 01:05:18,358
♪ 9 to 5, yeah, they got
you where they want you ♪

1250
01:05:18,359 --> 01:05:23,250
Being in "9 to 5" just
showed Dolly's versatility.

1251
01:05:23,251 --> 01:05:25,586
She was a big musical star

1252
01:05:25,587 --> 01:05:30,337
and now a movie audience with
a huge hit, as "9 to 5" was

1253
01:05:31,418 --> 01:05:33,251
just makes her better.

1254
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:36,698
A queen, an empress.

1255
01:05:36,699 --> 01:05:39,374
♪ Working 9 to 5, yeah ♪

1256
01:05:42,217 --> 01:05:43,050
Thank you!

1257
01:05:44,772 --> 01:05:48,143
There might have been
a little bit of backlash

1258
01:05:48,144 --> 01:05:52,322
when she went to Hollywood
and kind of wandered off

1259
01:05:52,323 --> 01:05:57,156
and Dolly's gone pop and all
those cliches that you heard.

1260
01:05:58,467 --> 01:06:01,186
But Dolly has that ability again

1261
01:06:01,187 --> 01:06:04,077
to get away with murder with music

1262
01:06:04,078 --> 01:06:07,495
and with her fan base, because they know,

1263
01:06:09,199 --> 01:06:14,146
they know that she's got magic
in her pocket as a musician.

1264
01:06:22,815 --> 01:06:25,254
♪ Islands in the stream ♪

1265
01:06:25,255 --> 01:06:26,350
♪ That is what we were ♪

1266
01:06:26,351 --> 01:06:28,075
Those who have tickets for Dolly Parton,

1267
01:06:28,076 --> 01:06:30,751
please line up at the back!

1268
01:06:30,752 --> 01:06:31,624
- Her voice.
- Her voice.

1269
01:06:31,625 --> 01:06:32,744
Is a real good voice.

1270
01:06:32,745 --> 01:06:34,224
Yeah, she's beautiful.

1271
01:06:34,225 --> 01:06:35,819
I really like her a lot.

1272
01:06:35,820 --> 01:06:37,178
You better believe it.

1273
01:06:37,179 --> 01:06:40,876
♪ And we rely on each other, ah-ah ♪

1274
01:06:40,877 --> 01:06:45,505
It's like through her
song, she opens her arms wide

1275
01:06:45,506 --> 01:06:48,923
and embraces such a broad swath of people

1276
01:06:50,047 --> 01:06:52,380
that don't always feel seen.

1277
01:06:53,287 --> 01:06:55,840
And it's why people love her

1278
01:06:55,841 --> 01:06:58,899
and it's why, you know, when
we've been in public with her,

1279
01:06:58,900 --> 01:07:02,983
her fans will drive for
hours to be where she is.

1280
01:07:04,632 --> 01:07:07,334
I've been with a lot of big movie stars.

1281
01:07:07,335 --> 01:07:11,774
I've never seen the devotion
that her fans have for her

1282
01:07:11,775 --> 01:07:13,362
and anyone else.

1283
01:07:13,363 --> 01:07:15,946
It's, it's quite extraordinary.

1284
01:07:17,497 --> 01:07:18,655
♪ Two doors down ♪

1285
01:07:18,656 --> 01:07:22,784
♪ They're laughing and
drinking and having a party ♪

1286
01:07:22,785 --> 01:07:26,858
♪ Two doors down, they're
not aware that I'm around ♪

1287
01:07:26,859 --> 01:07:31,753
♪ 'Cause here I am, no longer
crying and feeling sorry ♪

1288
01:07:31,754 --> 01:07:34,001
Yeah, Dolly always says that the irony

1289
01:07:34,002 --> 01:07:35,715
of the Imagination Libraries,

1290
01:07:35,716 --> 01:07:38,873
is that when she grew up,
she had no books in her home,

1291
01:07:38,874 --> 01:07:40,864
and the only book that they really had

1292
01:07:40,865 --> 01:07:43,137
in their home was the Bible.

1293
01:07:43,138 --> 01:07:44,812
Dolly's father farmed,

1294
01:07:44,813 --> 01:07:48,027
she always says he's the
smartest man she has ever known.

1295
01:07:48,028 --> 01:07:50,312
But she also was mindful
that his inability

1296
01:07:50,313 --> 01:07:52,865
to read and write limited
his opportunities.

1297
01:07:52,866 --> 01:07:55,905
And what she's told me is,
"I want to do whatever I can

1298
01:07:55,906 --> 01:07:59,686
to make sure all other
children, smart children

1299
01:07:59,687 --> 01:08:02,647
would never have that kind
of ceiling imposed on them,

1300
01:08:02,648 --> 01:08:04,768
they can always transcend it."

1301
01:08:12,942 --> 01:08:17,942
♪ Hey, maybe I'll dye my hair ♪

1302
01:08:18,355 --> 01:08:20,581
♪ Maybe I'll move somewhere ♪

1303
01:08:20,582 --> 01:08:23,231
With all the glamour
and all the other businesses

1304
01:08:23,232 --> 01:08:26,590
and all the stuff I do,
you'd be shocked to know

1305
01:08:26,591 --> 01:08:28,696
how little I still am,

1306
01:08:28,697 --> 01:08:32,809
how small and how
vulnerable and how country

1307
01:08:32,810 --> 01:08:36,786
and how I'm still so that little girl.

1308
01:08:36,787 --> 01:08:39,326
♪ Maybe I'll gain some weight ♪

1309
01:08:39,327 --> 01:08:41,434
♪ Maybe I'll clear my junk ♪

1310
01:08:41,435 --> 01:08:46,218
♪ Maybe I'll just get
drunk on apple wine ♪

1311
01:08:46,219 --> 01:08:48,258
By the 1990s, it was pretty hard

1312
01:08:48,259 --> 01:08:49,879
to categorize Dolly Parton.

1313
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:53,036
Was she a country singer?
Was she a movie star?

1314
01:08:53,037 --> 01:08:55,342
Was she a philanthropist?

1315
01:08:55,343 --> 01:08:57,322
Was she a businesswoman?

1316
01:08:57,323 --> 01:08:59,651
She was definitely an icon,

1317
01:08:59,652 --> 01:09:03,419
but her pop career was relatively short

1318
01:09:03,420 --> 01:09:05,882
and in some ways, she aged out of it.

1319
01:09:05,883 --> 01:09:08,367
By the end of the eighties
and into the nineties,

1320
01:09:08,368 --> 01:09:11,188
she's in her mid forties,

1321
01:09:11,189 --> 01:09:14,561
and she's not going to
get a lot of radio play

1322
01:09:14,562 --> 01:09:18,277
either in pop or country, for that matter.

1323
01:09:18,278 --> 01:09:22,545
I mean, we think about Dolly
and I talk about the light

1324
01:09:22,546 --> 01:09:24,872
emanating from her and all of that.

1325
01:09:24,873 --> 01:09:26,870
There's got to be the other side.

1326
01:09:26,871 --> 01:09:28,980
The light doesn't happen without the dark,

1327
01:09:28,981 --> 01:09:32,645
so that's got to be there somewhere.

1328
01:09:32,646 --> 01:09:35,576
How much of it she would like to reveal,

1329
01:09:35,577 --> 01:09:39,005
or needs to reveal, I don't know.

1330
01:09:46,363 --> 01:09:49,616
Around this time,
RCA dropped Dolly's contract

1331
01:09:49,617 --> 01:09:51,802
and that was a real blow.

1332
01:09:51,803 --> 01:09:54,416
She had been with them for decades

1333
01:09:54,417 --> 01:09:57,417
and yet, she wasn't selling anymore.

1334
01:09:59,293 --> 01:10:01,877
I guess the music business,

1335
01:10:01,878 --> 01:10:05,072
the public had become
oversaturated with Dolly Parton.

1336
01:10:05,073 --> 01:10:07,656
She was everywhere for a while.

1337
01:10:09,620 --> 01:10:13,652
You know, a lot of times
when you get burned out,

1338
01:10:13,653 --> 01:10:17,237
you quit, but I think
in her case, she reset

1339
01:10:17,238 --> 01:10:20,867
and kind of got back to her roots.

1340
01:10:20,868 --> 01:10:23,618
♪ Little sparrow ♪

1341
01:10:27,145 --> 01:10:32,145
♪ Little sparrow ♪

1342
01:10:32,356 --> 01:10:36,356
♪ Precious fragile little thing ♪

1343
01:10:39,217 --> 01:10:41,198
I still felt like I had as much passion

1344
01:10:41,199 --> 01:10:42,506
about it as I ever did

1345
01:10:42,507 --> 01:10:45,386
and if I ever was any good that
I was as good as I ever was.

1346
01:10:45,387 --> 01:10:47,488
So I thought, "You know,
I can't give up on this."

1347
01:10:47,489 --> 01:10:48,985
We decided that we were gonna do

1348
01:10:48,986 --> 01:10:50,235
some more traditional things

1349
01:10:50,236 --> 01:10:52,120
and I was just gonna
kind of manage myself.

1350
01:10:52,121 --> 01:10:54,564
I said, "I'm gonna do my music
if I have to just pay for it

1351
01:10:54,565 --> 01:10:56,534
and sell it outta the trunk of my car."

1352
01:10:56,535 --> 01:10:59,535
♪ And feels no pain ♪

1353
01:11:02,710 --> 01:11:05,852
I was sitting with Steve
Buckingham, my friend

1354
01:11:05,853 --> 01:11:08,630
and my producer, he'd produced
several of my records,

1355
01:11:08,631 --> 01:11:11,607
and he said, "I read a
very interesting thing

1356
01:11:11,608 --> 01:11:13,986
in the magazine that they asked the fans

1357
01:11:13,987 --> 01:11:18,524
who they would most like to
hear do a bluegrass album."

1358
01:11:18,525 --> 01:11:21,557
And they said me and I said, "Really?"

1359
01:11:21,558 --> 01:11:24,043
And he said, "Yeah, you
were like number one

1360
01:11:24,044 --> 01:11:26,463
on that whole chart, that you
were the person they'd like."

1361
01:11:26,464 --> 01:11:28,532
I said, "Well, let's just do one."

1362
01:11:28,533 --> 01:11:32,200
♪ Leaving you to never mend ♪

1363
01:11:35,103 --> 01:11:37,105
I think when we first heard

1364
01:11:37,106 --> 01:11:40,523
that she was gonna do a bluegrass record,

1365
01:11:42,933 --> 01:11:45,744
it made sense to me because
this is that kind of music

1366
01:11:45,745 --> 01:11:47,575
because that's where she came from.

1367
01:11:47,576 --> 01:11:49,663
The people playing on the back porches,

1368
01:11:49,664 --> 01:11:51,551
fiddles, and banjos and guitars.

1369
01:11:51,552 --> 01:11:53,256
♪ Yeah, so pretty one ♪

1370
01:11:53,257 --> 01:11:55,934
My first awareness of music in general,

1371
01:11:55,935 --> 01:11:58,548
my people were very, very
musical, my mother's people,

1372
01:11:58,549 --> 01:12:03,037
they all played some sort
of musical instrument,

1373
01:12:03,038 --> 01:12:06,186
and it was mostly old mountain music,

1374
01:12:06,187 --> 01:12:09,675
the old world stories where people carried

1375
01:12:09,676 --> 01:12:12,509
the messages of the world in song.

1376
01:12:13,869 --> 01:12:17,286
♪ Where I go for my time ♪

1377
01:12:18,669 --> 01:12:22,187
All of that stuff that were
brought over by our ancestors

1378
01:12:22,188 --> 01:12:24,702
was just embedded in my soul,

1379
01:12:24,703 --> 01:12:26,642
I call it my Smoky Mountain DNA.

1380
01:12:26,643 --> 01:12:29,739
That's why I think that style
of music is still my favorite

1381
01:12:29,740 --> 01:12:31,549
and I think that I do that

1382
01:12:31,550 --> 01:12:34,974
better than any other music that I do.

1383
01:12:34,975 --> 01:12:39,277
I thought, "Well, what am I
gonna call my bluegrass album?"

1384
01:12:39,278 --> 01:12:41,777
I thought, "The grass is blue.

1385
01:12:41,778 --> 01:12:44,388
I'm gonna call it 'The Grass is Blue.'"

1386
01:12:44,389 --> 01:12:46,692
And I thought, "Well,

1387
01:12:46,693 --> 01:12:49,265
what am I gonna say
about the grass is blue?

1388
01:12:49,266 --> 01:12:51,703
We all know grass is green."

1389
01:12:51,704 --> 01:12:53,698
And I just started writing this song

1390
01:12:53,699 --> 01:12:54,905
and all of a sudden, I thought,

1391
01:12:54,906 --> 01:12:57,396
"Well, if the grass is
green, the grass is blue,

1392
01:12:57,397 --> 01:13:00,002
I will write opposite, you know,

1393
01:13:00,003 --> 01:13:04,329
I'll make everything in the
whole song an opposite."

1394
01:13:04,330 --> 01:13:09,330
♪ And the rivers flow backwards
and my tears are dry ♪

1395
01:13:10,513 --> 01:13:15,470
♪ Swans hate the water
and eagles can't fly ♪

1396
01:13:15,471 --> 01:13:17,924
You know, I thought, "Oh, this is good."

1397
01:13:17,925 --> 01:13:19,477
So I just kept on doing that.

1398
01:13:19,478 --> 01:13:22,218
It's one of my favorite
songs that I've ever written.

1399
01:13:22,219 --> 01:13:26,751
♪ Now I've had to think up ♪

1400
01:13:26,752 --> 01:13:30,209
♪ Some way to survive ♪

1401
01:13:30,210 --> 01:13:35,210
♪ Since you said it's over ♪

1402
01:13:35,776 --> 01:13:38,943
♪ And told me goodbye ♪

1403
01:13:41,047 --> 01:13:44,026
"The Grass is Blue" is a
really sophisticated song

1404
01:13:44,027 --> 01:13:45,986
both musically and lyrically.

1405
01:13:45,987 --> 01:13:47,607
It's from the perspective of someone

1406
01:13:47,608 --> 01:13:50,458
who has just been broken
up with and is devastated

1407
01:13:50,459 --> 01:13:52,116
and can't see a way forward.

1408
01:13:52,117 --> 01:13:55,212
And the only way that she
can cope is to pretend

1409
01:13:55,213 --> 01:13:58,052
that the opposite of everything is true.

1410
01:13:58,053 --> 01:13:59,870
♪ The opposite's true ♪

1411
01:13:59,871 --> 01:14:02,554
She weaves these
together in an amazing way

1412
01:14:02,555 --> 01:14:05,894
to demonstrate the effort that it takes

1413
01:14:05,895 --> 01:14:08,620
to overcome this kind of heartbreak.

1414
01:14:08,621 --> 01:14:13,074
♪ Valleys are high ♪

1415
01:14:13,075 --> 01:14:17,785
♪ Mountains are level ♪

1416
01:14:17,786 --> 01:14:20,683
♪ And truth is alive ♪

1417
01:14:20,684 --> 01:14:23,264
She started singing
and all the cold chills

1418
01:14:23,265 --> 01:14:25,725
would just go up your back just like,

1419
01:14:25,726 --> 01:14:29,551
"Oh man, there's my whole life, you know,

1420
01:14:29,552 --> 01:14:32,320
in one sound, in a person's voice."

1421
01:14:32,321 --> 01:14:36,868
♪ But I'm perfectly fine now ♪

1422
01:14:36,869 --> 01:14:40,214
♪ And I don't miss you ♪

1423
01:14:40,215 --> 01:14:42,652
What I've always said
about Dolly's voice

1424
01:14:42,653 --> 01:14:45,787
is that she uses her voice
as if it's an instrument,

1425
01:14:45,788 --> 01:14:49,235
so I'm trying to use my
instrument as if it's her voice.

1426
01:14:52,661 --> 01:14:57,417
♪ But the rivers flow backwards ♪

1427
01:14:57,418 --> 01:15:02,148
♪ And my tears are dry ♪

1428
01:15:02,149 --> 01:15:06,348
♪ Swans hate the water ♪

1429
01:15:06,349 --> 01:15:11,349
♪ And eagles can't fly ♪

1430
01:15:12,445 --> 01:15:16,014
♪ Oh, but I'm all right now ♪

1431
01:15:16,015 --> 01:15:19,348
♪ Now that I'm over you ♪

1432
01:15:20,256 --> 01:15:22,303
At the end, I wanted to keep building

1433
01:15:22,304 --> 01:15:26,022
'cause I wanted those bluegrass harmonies

1434
01:15:26,023 --> 01:15:27,949
to just keep going, you know,

1435
01:15:27,950 --> 01:15:31,435
before it kind of resolved
into like its sad little place

1436
01:15:31,436 --> 01:15:33,572
where the grass was still blue.

1437
01:15:33,573 --> 01:15:36,834
♪ I don't love you ♪

1438
01:15:36,835 --> 01:15:40,168
♪ And the grass is blue ♪

1439
01:15:48,515 --> 01:15:51,584
But I really think that was
very effective in the song

1440
01:15:51,585 --> 01:15:53,436
and I thought that out carefully.

1441
01:15:53,437 --> 01:15:55,363
Thank you.

1442
01:15:55,364 --> 01:15:58,275
I've never gone where
anybody expected me to go,

1443
01:15:58,276 --> 01:16:00,661
and I do that often in
my songs.

1444
01:16:00,662 --> 01:16:05,162
You might think you know me,
but I might surprise you.

1445
01:16:06,016 --> 01:16:09,256
These are albums that they've
gotten great critical acclaim,

1446
01:16:09,257 --> 01:16:10,970
but you know, they don't sell a lot.

1447
01:16:10,971 --> 01:16:13,743
You don't make much money in
this acoustic bluegrass music

1448
01:16:13,744 --> 01:16:15,279
for as a rule.

1449
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:18,280
I went to Europe with her in 2002,

1450
01:16:19,262 --> 01:16:22,551
touring the bluegrass
record, "Halos and Horns,"

1451
01:16:22,552 --> 01:16:25,378
and it was a very small affair.

1452
01:16:25,379 --> 01:16:27,816
I think she was riding in a camper

1453
01:16:27,817 --> 01:16:31,151
and the guys were riding in
a Ray Charles bus with seats

1454
01:16:31,152 --> 01:16:35,749
and it was small venues
and very underpromoted,

1455
01:16:35,750 --> 01:16:38,197
and I don't think she
enjoyed that very much.

1456
01:16:38,198 --> 01:16:40,279
I think she's kinda like, "Look, you know,

1457
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:42,564
I don't need to be doing this."

1458
01:16:42,565 --> 01:16:45,000
Dolly, this way please!

1459
01:16:45,001 --> 01:16:49,480
After 1991 to about 2004, I
think she was more considered

1460
01:16:49,481 --> 01:16:51,716
kind of like a heritage artist,

1461
01:16:51,717 --> 01:16:54,373
but I thought, "Hey, this
woman's a superstar icon.

1462
01:16:54,374 --> 01:16:56,331
We have to market this differently."

1463
01:16:56,332 --> 01:17:00,587
She hadn't had a manager
for 17 years prior to me,

1464
01:17:00,588 --> 01:17:02,647
so she was very reluctant.

1465
01:17:02,648 --> 01:17:04,202
She's like, "Who's this young punk

1466
01:17:04,203 --> 01:17:06,271
trying to tell me what to do?"

1467
01:17:06,272 --> 01:17:09,227
You know, that doesn't
go over well.

1468
01:17:13,272 --> 01:17:15,602
♪ Blue smoke climbing up the mountain ♪

1469
01:17:15,603 --> 01:17:17,864
♪ Blue smoke winding round the bend ♪

1470
01:17:17,865 --> 01:17:20,826
I knew she needed a guy
like that that could come on

1471
01:17:20,827 --> 01:17:23,827
and take her on and spar with her

1472
01:17:23,828 --> 01:17:27,666
and do the yin and the
yang that she likes.

1473
01:17:27,667 --> 01:17:28,829
He's so good.

1474
01:17:28,830 --> 01:17:30,654
I think his Valium's kicked in.

1475
01:17:31,795 --> 01:17:33,329
Dolly was basically like,

1476
01:17:33,330 --> 01:17:36,180
"Hey, if you lose me millions
of dollars, you're fired.

1477
01:17:36,181 --> 01:17:37,941
Are you sure you wanna take this risk?"

1478
01:17:37,942 --> 01:17:40,209
And I said, "Absolutely,
I wanna take this risk."

1479
01:17:40,210 --> 01:17:42,896
You know, I believe in
the research, the planning

1480
01:17:42,897 --> 01:17:44,471
and the strategy that I've done,

1481
01:17:44,472 --> 01:17:46,499
and now I'm gonna execute
and follow through.

1482
01:17:46,500 --> 01:17:48,630
♪ Blue smoke climbing up the mountain ♪

1483
01:17:48,631 --> 01:17:50,823
♪ Blue smoke winding round the bend ♪

1484
01:17:50,824 --> 01:17:53,698
♪ Blue smoke is the name
of the heartbreak train ♪

1485
01:17:53,699 --> 01:17:54,953
♪ That I am riding in ♪

1486
01:17:54,954 --> 01:17:58,064
We put tickets on
sale six months in advance.

1487
01:17:58,065 --> 01:18:01,224
We sold 14 arenas out in 60 minutes.

1488
01:18:01,225 --> 01:18:05,460
I put another seven shows on
sale and we sold 21 shows out.

1489
01:18:05,461 --> 01:18:07,829
♪ Oh, click-ad-ee, click-ad-ee,
click-ad-ee clack ♪

1490
01:18:07,830 --> 01:18:10,354
♪ Just stay on track and never look back ♪

1491
01:18:10,355 --> 01:18:12,942
It was massive, I mean,
the largest solo tour

1492
01:18:12,943 --> 01:18:15,626
that she had ever done in
the history of her career.

1493
01:18:20,456 --> 01:18:21,847
I think in recent years

1494
01:18:21,848 --> 01:18:26,848
that she's getting more credibility
from being a songwriter.

1495
01:18:26,878 --> 01:18:30,311
The songs that she does have
have been some of the biggest,

1496
01:18:30,312 --> 01:18:33,161
I mean, "I Will Always Love
You" and "Jolene" and "9 to 5,"

1497
01:18:33,162 --> 01:18:35,842
I mean, they're just staples,
you know what I mean?

1498
01:18:35,843 --> 01:18:39,569
The audiences range from three
years old to 70 years old.

1499
01:18:39,570 --> 01:18:42,298
And I can tell you that
when those songs come on,

1500
01:18:42,299 --> 01:18:45,404
there's just nobody that doesn't
know it on a global level.

1501
01:18:45,405 --> 01:18:50,087
♪ Woo-oo woo-oo, roll with me now ♪

1502
01:18:50,088 --> 01:18:54,508
Dolly, Dolly, Dolly!

1503
01:18:55,484 --> 01:18:57,318
Dolly, Dolly, Dolly!

1504
01:18:57,319 --> 01:18:59,162
I grew up in the country,

1505
01:18:59,163 --> 01:19:01,675
so this mud ain't nothing new to me.

1506
01:19:03,038 --> 01:19:07,046
And it's nothing
new to you either, is it?

1507
01:19:12,872 --> 01:19:15,189
♪ Back through the years ♪

1508
01:19:15,190 --> 01:19:18,480
♪ I go wondering once again ♪

1509
01:19:18,481 --> 01:19:22,641
♪ Back to the seasons of my youth ♪

1510
01:19:22,642 --> 01:19:27,642
♪ And I recall a box of
rags that someone gave us ♪

1511
01:19:28,578 --> 01:19:33,394
♪ And how my mama put the rags to use ♪

1512
01:19:33,395 --> 01:19:36,772
♪ There were rags of many colors ♪

1513
01:19:36,773 --> 01:19:39,198
♪ But every piece was small ♪

1514
01:19:39,199 --> 01:19:41,409
♪ And I didn't have a coat ♪

1515
01:19:41,410 --> 01:19:44,030
♪ And it was way down in the fall ♪

1516
01:19:44,031 --> 01:19:46,539
"Coat of Many Colors" is my favorite song

1517
01:19:46,540 --> 01:19:49,957
because it really covers a lot of ground.

1518
01:19:51,176 --> 01:19:55,759
First of all, it's about my
mother, who I loved dearly.

1519
01:19:57,189 --> 01:20:00,225
It's about confidence.
It's about bullying.

1520
01:20:00,226 --> 01:20:02,384
It's about acceptance.

1521
01:20:02,385 --> 01:20:05,435
♪ So with patches on my britches ♪

1522
01:20:05,436 --> 01:20:07,819
♪ And holes in both my shoes ♪

1523
01:20:07,820 --> 01:20:10,489
♪ In my coat of many colors ♪

1524
01:20:10,490 --> 01:20:12,985
♪ I hurried off to school ♪

1525
01:20:12,986 --> 01:20:15,787
♪ Just to find the others laughing ♪

1526
01:20:15,788 --> 01:20:18,064
♪ And making fun of me ♪

1527
01:20:18,065 --> 01:20:21,370
♪ In my coat of many colors ♪

1528
01:20:21,371 --> 01:20:23,900
♪ My mama made for me ♪

1529
01:20:23,901 --> 01:20:27,562
I think about where I am now
compared to where I've been,

1530
01:20:27,563 --> 01:20:30,420
where I came from, and
how much I have achieved.

1531
01:20:30,421 --> 01:20:34,460
And that is my philosophy,
that little song.

1532
01:20:34,461 --> 01:20:36,350
It's okay to be different.

1533
01:20:36,351 --> 01:20:39,606
You know, it's okay to not
be like everybody else,

1534
01:20:39,607 --> 01:20:41,643
in fact, it's not only not okay,

1535
01:20:41,644 --> 01:20:44,982
it's wonderful that you are who you are.

1536
01:20:51,273 --> 01:20:56,036
♪ Oh, hello, hello, show time, show time ♪

1537
01:20:56,037 --> 01:20:56,870
This one.

1538
01:21:01,821 --> 01:21:05,514
Things are different
once you become a star,

1539
01:21:05,515 --> 01:21:07,486
but I wanted to be a star

1540
01:21:07,487 --> 01:21:10,372
and I don't complain about that now,

1541
01:21:10,373 --> 01:21:12,158
because I appreciate the fact

1542
01:21:12,159 --> 01:21:14,044
that people know me and recognize me.

1543
01:21:14,045 --> 01:21:16,789
I wanted to be seen, I
wanted to be recognized,

1544
01:21:16,790 --> 01:21:20,961
I wanted to be appreciated for what I do.

1545
01:21:20,962 --> 01:21:22,909
Okay, I'm good to go.

1546
01:21:22,910 --> 01:21:25,566
But it's so different now, the business,

1547
01:21:25,567 --> 01:21:29,908
than when it was when I was
a girl here in Nashville.

1548
01:21:29,909 --> 01:21:32,689
I'm so happy that I was
one of those old timers

1549
01:21:32,690 --> 01:21:35,205
that really got to grow with it

1550
01:21:35,206 --> 01:21:39,620
and know what it was really
about, to really build a career,

1551
01:21:39,621 --> 01:21:42,530
not necessarily have someone
else build one for you

1552
01:21:42,531 --> 01:21:43,985
and just hand it to you.

1553
01:21:45,617 --> 01:21:48,108
Ladies and gentlemen,

1554
01:21:48,109 --> 01:21:52,004
celebrating 50 years as a
member of the Grand Ole Opry,

1555
01:21:52,005 --> 01:21:54,244
please welcome Dolly Parton.

1556
01:21:56,008 --> 01:21:56,925
Hey, hey!

1557
01:21:58,158 --> 01:21:59,158
How are you?

1558
01:22:00,418 --> 01:22:01,356
Whoo!

1559
01:22:01,357 --> 01:22:02,774
Hello, everybody!

1560
01:22:03,990 --> 01:22:05,977
And you and you.

1561
01:22:05,978 --> 01:22:07,145
Hey, up there.

1562
01:22:08,428 --> 01:22:13,428
Well, 50 years at the
Grand Ole Opry.

1563
01:22:14,934 --> 01:22:17,929
Well, this is really a
special night for me,

1564
01:22:17,930 --> 01:22:20,186
and thank you for standing up for me

1565
01:22:20,187 --> 01:22:23,499
or were you just resting
your butts?

1566
01:22:23,500 --> 01:22:25,298
That woman's not retiring.

1567
01:22:25,299 --> 01:22:27,901
There's no reason for her to retire.

1568
01:22:27,902 --> 01:22:29,543
She's still writing songs.

1569
01:22:29,544 --> 01:22:32,994
She's got like over 1000
songs people haven't heard.

1570
01:22:32,995 --> 01:22:36,788
She has Dollywood, you
know, she's making movies.

1571
01:22:36,789 --> 01:22:39,330
She's not going anywhere anytime soon.

1572
01:22:39,331 --> 01:22:42,194
This is a song I like
to end my show with

1573
01:22:42,195 --> 01:22:45,270
and it kind of, of course, it
was written for other reasons,

1574
01:22:45,271 --> 01:22:47,867
but it says the perfect thing to you.

1575
01:22:53,948 --> 01:23:00,800
♪ Mm mm mm mm mm ♪

1576
01:23:00,801 --> 01:23:05,801
♪ If I should stay ♪

1577
01:23:07,281 --> 01:23:12,281
♪ I would only be in your way ♪

1578
01:23:14,311 --> 01:23:19,311
♪ So I'll go, but I know ♪

1579
01:23:20,950 --> 01:23:25,950
♪ I'll think of you each step of the way ♪

1580
01:23:28,580 --> 01:23:32,330
♪ And I will always love you ♪

1581
01:23:36,741 --> 01:23:40,324
I think there will
always be country music.

1582
01:23:42,530 --> 01:23:45,577
I do believe that people
will search out those songs

1583
01:23:45,578 --> 01:23:47,711
like the "Jolenes," hopefully,

1584
01:23:47,712 --> 01:23:49,353
or the "I Will Always Love Yous"

1585
01:23:49,354 --> 01:23:52,142
or the Hank Williams songs
and all those great songs,

1586
01:23:52,143 --> 01:23:57,101
because they are the stories
that people naturally need.

1587
01:23:57,102 --> 01:23:59,408
♪ That's all I'm taking with me ♪

1588
01:23:59,409 --> 01:24:03,031
There are few finer songwriters,

1589
01:24:03,032 --> 01:24:05,585
male or female, that have ever lived.

1590
01:24:05,586 --> 01:24:08,498
Her life's work to me is a narrative

1591
01:24:08,499 --> 01:24:12,665
of painful, beautiful,
poetic, melodic commentary

1592
01:24:12,666 --> 01:24:15,328
on what it's like to be human

1593
01:24:15,329 --> 01:24:18,774
and on what it's like to
be a woman in America.

1594
01:24:18,775 --> 01:24:21,187
Dolly, it is my pleasure to induct you

1595
01:24:21,188 --> 01:24:24,506
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

1596
01:24:26,150 --> 01:24:27,840
I'm a rock star now!

1597
01:24:31,532 --> 01:24:36,532
♪ I hope life treats you kind ♪

1598
01:24:37,505 --> 01:24:42,505
♪ And I hope you have
all you ever dreamed of ♪

1599
01:24:44,405 --> 01:24:47,338
♪ Oh, I do wish you joy ♪

1600
01:24:47,339 --> 01:24:50,892
♪ And lots of happiness ♪

1601
01:24:50,893 --> 01:24:55,893
♪ But above all this, I wish you love ♪

1602
01:24:58,411 --> 01:25:03,411
♪ And I will always love you ♪

1603
01:25:07,477 --> 01:25:12,477
♪ I will always love you ♪

1604
01:25:15,877 --> 01:25:19,294
♪ I will always love you ♪

1605
01:25:26,632 --> 01:25:31,077
♪ Know I will always love you ♪

1606
01:25:34,335 --> 01:25:35,835
Thank you so much!

1607
01:25:39,190 --> 01:25:40,889
♪ Oh ♪