DOLLY PARTON
RELEASES NEW SONG DEDICATED TO LATE HUSBAND
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Dolly Parton is honoring her late husband, Carl Dean, by pouring her coronary heart in a model new music.
The music, titled “If You Hadn’t Been There,” dropped on Friday … simply days after Dolly introduced her longtime accomplice of greater than half a century had handed.
The icon took to Instagram to share the music’s cowl artwork … that includes a classic photograph of Dolly wrapped round Carl, beaming with an enormous smile. Under the throwback pic, their signatures seem with the phrases, “Dolly + Carl = [Love].”
In her caption, Dolly says … “Carl and I fell in love when I was 18 and he was 23, and like all great love stories, they never end. They live in memory and in song, and I dedicate this to him.”
The touching observe leads off with some emotional lyrics … “If you hadn’t been there / Where would I be? / Without your trust / Love and belief / The ups and downs / We’ve always shared / And I wouldn’t be here / If you hadn’t been there.”
Parton continues to replicate on her lifelong love, singing, “You always see the best in me / Your loving arms have cradled me,” and “You made me dream / More than I dared.”
This is not the primary music Dolly has written for Carl — her 2012 observe, “From Here to the Moon and Back” was additionally devoted to him.
Dolly did not reveal a explanation for loss of life when asserting Carl’s passing, however it’s price noting he was identified with Alzheimer’s Illness in 2019. Parton says her late husband will likely be laid to relaxation in a personal ceremony with rapid household attending.
For now, Dolly is paying homage to him in one of the best ways she is aware of how — by music.
