Tag: dolly-parton

9 to 5, by Dolly Parton.

The older I get, the more I feel this socialist anthem in my bones. 😉

As a kid, I didn’t really get the full picture painted by the lyrics, so I just picked up the cartoonish meaning of this song (and the movie? I think I probably saw the movie.)

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I think I’ve tried this before, I but I was really feeling it tonight, and whatever capo-induced key this is in was working for me, with a kinda Sturgill Simpson vibe.

It deserves the piano track, but I don’t have time tonight.

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.