An old photo of Dolly Parton is making the rounds on social media.<\/p>\n
It’s a photobooth shot she took in 1966 when she was 20.<\/p>\n
Everyone’s reposting it and wondering, how could “Jolene” or ANY woman have been a threat?<\/p>\n
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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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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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…<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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