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The Song Dolly Wrote in 10 Minutes That Changed Country Music Forever

Most songs that matter took years. "Jolene" took ten minutes.

Dolly Parton sat down at her piano late one night in 1973 — she has described it as sometime after midnight — and wrote the entire song in a single sitting.

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The melody, the words, the structure. Ten minutes, maybe fifteen. She has said she barely had to think about it.

This is not unusual for her. Dolly writes fast when the feeling is real. And the feeling behind "Jolene" was very real: she was genuinely afraid of losing her husband to a beautiful red-haired bank teller who had been flirting with Carl Dean on his regular visits to their local branch.

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