Dolly Parton and 60s antiwar song album

[bobbieinok]

heard about this last week..........the quotes make her sound a bit schizo

http://www.ezrock.com/content/cp_article.asp?id=/global_feeds/CanadianPress/EntertainmentNews/e081929A.htm

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With so many of the songs associated with the antiwar movement of the '60s, she worried people might get the wrong idea.

"I'm certainly not into any kind of political thing or protest. People who know me will know I've chosen these songs to really kind of uplift and to give hope, like they were written for at the time," she says.

Still, she says the songs speak to the times - both then and now - and she didn't want to shy away from them.

"I just felt it was good time to bring a lot of these songs back," she says. "We don't want to be at war, but of course we have to fight if we have to. We don't want to lose our children in war, but of course we do. So we write about it and sing about it, and it kind of helps us relieve our grief and express ourselves."

more.....

[AX10]

1. Welcome to "Zie Kountry Musik Volken".

:eyes:

Sadly, sometimes we must use war to protect ourselves. For me, violence it the VERT last choice. There were a buch of FReeper asshats (Vince Gill, Winona Judd, etc....) who said, "you know, we don't like war, but if our leader says we must go, we must." :wtf:?

There are very few decent people in the Country "Music" Community who sincerly don't like war.

The Dixie Chicks massacre spoke volumes about just how bad the country "music" community has devolved over the years.

Let's clarify this, there is no evidence to claim that Dolly Parton is a right winger. What is sad is that people who may be against the war are still afraid to speak out within the Country community due to it's hard right (extreme) tilt.

[villager]

2. we're knockin' around the same topic here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5357601

viz. the rendition of "Imagine" she did this morning on the CBS Morning Show...

[bobbieinok]

3. thanks......loved the movie 9 to 5........like a lot of her songs

one I heard years ago 'Coat of Many Colors'

Back through the years
I go wonderin' once again
Back to the seasons of my youth
I recall a box of rags that someone gave us
And how my momma put the rags to use
There were rags of many colors
Every piece was small
And I didn't have a coat
And it was way down in the fall
Momma sewed the rags together
Sewin' every piece with love
She made my coat of many colors
That I was so proud of
As she sewed, she told a story
From the bible, she had read
About a coat of many colors
Joseph wore and then she said
Perhaps this coat will bring you
Good luck and happiness
And I just couldn't wait to wear it
And momma blessed it with a kiss
Chorus:

My coat of many colors
That my momma made for me
Made only from rags
But I wore it so proudly
Although we had no money
I was rich as I could be
In my coat of many colors
My momma made for me

So with patches on my britches
Holes in both my shoes
In my coat of many colors
I hurried off to school
Just to find the others laughing
And making fun of me
In my coat of many colors
My momma made for me

And oh I couldn't understand it
For I felt I was rich
And I told them of the love
My momma sewed in every stitch
And I told 'em all the story
Momma told me while she sewed
And how my coat of many colors
Was worth more than all their clothes

But they didn't understand it
And I tried to make them see
That one is only poor
Only if they choose to be
Now I know we had no money
But I was rich as I could be
In my coat of many colors
My momma made for me
Made just for me