Me too.

Seems Tennessee has had its fair share of growing up poor. I'm just a little younger than your Mama but I'm sure we'd have similar memories. Lots of love to you from an old Tennessee lady. 💞💞💞🙏🙏🙏

My Mama grew up in West Tennessee in the 50's & 60's (She was born in '51). I guess they were poor as they wore flour sack dresses a lot growing up that my Grandmother made for them. They got electricity in about 1955 and indoor plumbing around 1959. They farmed and Grandaddy also later got work at Holley Carburetor in Paris. I do know they were the first ones for miles around to get a tv set and Mama said every Saturday the house would be packed with neighbors coming over to watch the fights on tv. Grandmother grew up as a sharecropper sleeping on what she called a "pallet" in a loft reached by a wood ladder and often all they had to eat were wild greens (Or as Grandmother derisively called them, Weeds) Mama said they made their own soap from rendered hog fat and ash (I assume the ash was for the lye) They heated the house with a double fireplace up until the year before I was born when they got a wood stove in the living room. Even then if it hadn't been for the old 4 stack heaters in the other rooms when I was a kid, you couldn't have been in them long without freezing. Not that they used them much as you could nearly see your breath in front of your face at night and no heat at all in the upstairs which was one big unfinished room, but it had a big featherbed in it with so many quilts on it that once you got in you couldn't move much, lol. In 1994 they retired the wood stove and got a propane stove for the living room and a propane wall heater for the kitchen but still had those same old stack heaters in the bathroom and 1 bedroom. The big bedroom was STILL heated with the other side of that double fireplace and in the mornings you'd get up fast as you could and go get dressed in the living room where it was warm, LOL! Grandaddy passed on in '96 and Grandmother sold the farm in '98 and moved to Paris in a new but much smaller house with central heat & air. She passed on in 2014. If I ever win the lottery I'm gonna buy the old place back again. Great Grandaddy built it himself in 1921. Before that he lived in an old log cabin that sat behind the house he built.

Oh they sure do call her the Queen of Country Music Amen

They may, but Loretta Lynn is still with us 😉

@@cjturner2008 Dolly is my Queen of country music that’s for sure!!

Her favorite saying about her looks, " it costs so much to look so cheap".

@@kustomdeluxe8489 and “ the higher the hair, the closer to God”.

Just to add, the replica coat was also made by Dolly's mother, so it's as close to the original as one could get. Dolly mentioned it on Phil Donahue, shortly before the opening of Dollywood.

@ Larry Brantley My grandfather was a coal miner for a very long time so my mom was a huge fan of Loretta Lynn. Any time coal miners daughter came on, mom would smile and sing along saying this is my song. Mom passed away 3 months ago so I had to add that song to my play list now it makes me smile!!!

YES! Those three huge talents have recorded many songs together, and they compliment each other so, so well.

Dolly's original coat is long gone. Neither Dolly nor her mom knew what happened to it. They assumed it was passed down till it wore out, or was taken apart & repurposed. After the success of the song, Dolly's mom made her a "near duplicate", which is the one on display.

Maybe you should react to '9 to 5' from the Movie.

Dolly's original coat is long gone. Neither Dolly nor her mom knew what happened to it. They assumed it was passed down till it wore out, or was taken apart & repurposed. After the success of the song, Dolly's mom made her a "near duplicate", which is the one on display.

Dolly lays it all on Col. Parker. She said she didn't know if Elvis ever knew why it fell through. Dolly even had family in from out-of-town, to watch Elvis record it (which Parker knew). Parker called her the night before recording (!), demanding 1/2 the publishing rights, probably thinking he had her boxed into a corner. Dolly said, if it hadn't already been a hit (#1 Country), she'd probably have done the deal. Much later, she met Priscilla, who told her how much Elvis loved the song, how disappointed he was that he couldn't record it & that he actually sang a couple of lines of it, in Priscilla's ear, as they were leaving the court house, following their divorce.