Jolene, by Dolly Parton.
What more can be said about national treasure, hero, and icon Dolly Parton? Today she turned down a statue.
She wrote a statement using these words:
“I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.”
She is the walking, talking, lifesaving discourse.
I got into this song sometime before a work conference in Chicago in 2014, where I had somehow committed to sing it as a fundraiser at karaoke.
As often happened at fall conferences when my kids were small, I had a cold, it went poorly, and I had lots of fun.
These days, everyone loves Jolene, and everyone loves Dolly, and it’s OK to love things.
Kept it simple tonight because throwing a capo on four frets up makes everything I can do with my fingers sound pretty decent, and it’s in a key I can handle… maybe except for the last Jolene in the chorus, but it went alright.