Dolly Parton Really Does “Tumble Out Of Bed”

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” has one of the most memorable opening lyrics ever written.

In case you somehow don’t know it, it’s “Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition.”

If you’ve seen the “9 to 5” movie, you know that it sets up the whole story, but it also sets up Dolly’s real-life daily routine.

“Wired” had her answer some of the Internet’s most searched questions about herself. One of them was, “Does she drink coffee.”

“Yes, I do. I like to get up in the morning ‘Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen and pour myself a cup of ambition.’ And usually that ambition is a cup of coffee. I’m good with a cup and half of coffee every morning.”

Somebody else asked if she can yodel, and she launched right into the classic “Yodel-Odel-Ay-Hee-Hoo.”

“Actually I have a form of a country yodel that I do [and] incorporate it in different songs, like a song I had out years ago called ‘Mule Skinner Blues’. I’m not true yodeler like that sound they do from the Swiss Alps, but I can yodel.”

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This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone