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“Jolene” by Dolly Parton from Jolene (1974).
“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.” — Dolly Parton
(Drawn by request for TiMFS by the inimitable Dave Bay.)
Last Friday night, I sang this song to a bunch of people in costumes the night before Halloween, then went outside to drunkenly insert myself into a quasi-bar fight that had erupted over a rude version of a Suzanne Vega song and thrown spectacles. I had a ketchup bottle in my hand which someone gently took away from me before I got into trouble. A terracotta planter was broken. We found the spectacles.
Singin’ and shovin’: we’re pretty much Vikings.
This blog title nailed it. This is one of my favorite songs.
