Name: Dolly Parton Sings "Jolene" | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dolly Parton Sings "Jolene" | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-04-05. Transcript available.

you're going to sing a song here tonight that was it's a great song i haven't
heard this song in
quite a while it's called jolene yes written in 1973 about like that it came
out in 73 i wrote
this song the same week that i wrote the song i will always love you and two or
three other songs
and i found an old tape and i didn't realize i wrote that the same week and i
must have some
good coffee that week pretty good weeks now that uh that song that couldn't
have been a bigger
bigger hit it was a huge hit for you and then whitney houston and the bodyguard
and that thing
it's just an enormous success i've always loved the song i'll always love you
and this one the
jolene song i always thought could be a hit again because when i recorded the
first time it only
sold like 60 000 copies of a single i have a new album coming out in june
called something special
and i re-recorded jolene and put put it on the pa system down there dollywood
you'll sell them like
pancakes well i will i have to here we go ladies and gentlemen dolly parton the
song is jolene thank you
very much dolly
jolene jolene jolene jolene jolene oh i'm begging of you please don't take my
man
jolene jolene jolene jolene jolene jolene please don't take him just because
you can
jolene jolene jolene jolene jolene jolene your beauty is beyond compare with
flaming locks of
ivory skin and eyes of emerald green. Your smile is like a breath of spring.
Your voice is soft like summer rain. I cannot compete with you, Jolene. But he
talks about you in his sleep. There's nothing I can do to keep from crying when
he calls your name, Jolene.
Oh, but I can easily understand how you could easily take my man, but you don't
know what he means to me, Jolene.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. Oh, I'm begging of you, please, don't take my
man.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. Please don't take him just because you can.
Now, you could have your choice of me. I could never love again. He's the only
one for me, Jolene.
But I had to have this talk with you. My happiness depends on you and whatever
you decide you'll do to me, Jolene.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. Oh, I'm begging of you, please, don't
take my man.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. Please don't take him just because you
can.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Just bad-headed with you, Jolene.
Thank you.
Thank you very much. Hey, folks.
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. Wonderful. Very nice.
Oh, don't you feel nice.
Look, it's me and Jolene.
I say, oh, don't you look nice.
We'll be right back, folks.
Thank you very much.
We'll be right back.