What can be written about Dolly Parton that has not been written already?
We have no interviews with the queen of country music to recall. No concerts in which she was featured to look back on. No Dolly sightings at Dollywood.
Instead, our mind goes to the song “The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine” from the musical known to many Chattanoogans, “Pump Boys and Dinettes.”
The song is the story of a fanboy of Dolly who waits for her outside the stage door of a concert he couldn’t attend, only to get not only a greeting (“Come on, Mark. She said Mark. I guess she read my name from off my shirt.”), but also an invitation to board her tour bus and, ultimately, a kiss on the cheek.
(IN THE NEWS: Dolly Parton, beloved musician and patron saint of Tennessee, dies)