Dolly Parton Debunked A Myth About Her Biggest Songs – But The Real Story's Still Amazing

The singer debunked the myth herself.

Musician, actor, philanthropist, and all-round superstar, Dolly Parton, won 10 Grammy Awards and sold over 100 million records.

The Coat Of Many Colours singer is reported to have penned more than 3,000 lyrics in her illustrious life, too. She told Larry King in a 2010 interview that there were probably “many hundreds more now because I love to write.

“It’s my way of expressing myself,” she added. “It’s my therapy.”

Among those incredible songs are smash hits Jolene – written after a bank teller showed interest in her husband Carl Dean – and I Will Always........

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