Old Photo Of Dolly Parton Has Fans Wondering Who Was Jolene

An old photo of Dolly Parton is making the rounds on social media.

It’s a photobooth shot she took in 1966 when she was 20.

Everyone’s reposting it and wondering, how could “Jolene” or ANY woman have been a threat?

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Dolly was in her mid-20s when she recorded “Jolene”, where she begs a woman who’s prettier, “Please don’t take my man.”

She wrote it about a bank teller who kept flirting with her husband, but she got the name from a little girl she signed an autograph for. It stuck in her head because she’d never heard that name before.

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In other words, there wasn’t really some hussy named Jolene who tried to steal her guy, but one fan has a theory…

One person reposted the old pic and asked what if Dolly IS “Jolene” and she “wrote the song from the point of view of every OTHER woman in her town.”

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Categorised in: Country Music News

This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone