Dolly Parton Photo courtesy of Butterfly Records. Photo by Vijat Mohindra.)
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?
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.
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.”
