“Like all the big love stories, they never end,” wrote the Queen of Country on social networks, announcing the exit from If You Hadn’t Been There.
Country Queen, Dolly Parton, has just unveiled this Friday, March 7 If You Hadn’t Been Therean unprecedented title dedicated to her husband Carl Dean, who disappeared this week at 82 years old. “” If you hadn’t been there, where would I be? / Without your confidence, your love and your faith (…) I would not be there if you had not been there./ You have always seen the best in me./tu rocked me with all your love and you kept me near you (…) You made me dream when I dared not./ You are my angel, my confidant, no I would not be there without you “we can hear there.
The song’s announcement was accompanied by a tribute on social networks. “” Carl and I fell in love when I was 18 and him 23, and like all the big love stories, they never end. They live in memories and in the songs, and I dedicate this piece to him ”, wrote Dolly Parton, by sharing a photo of the one with whom she shared her life for sixty years. The two met in front of the Wishy Washy Washy Washy Lover in Nashville, in the state of Tennessee before marrying two years later, on May 30, 1966, in Georgia. The couple, who never had a child, managed to hold their romance away from the spotlight, despite the celebrity of Dolly Parton.
« Carl and I spent many and wonderful years together. There are no words to describe the love we have shared for over 60 years “Wrote the singer earlier in the week. “” Thank you for all your messages, the cards and flowers you sent me to pay tribute to my wonderful husband. I can’t answer you one by one, but know that it touches me a lot. He is now in the hands of God and I agree with that. I would always like her “, She added.
Dolly Parton had already been inspired by their love story to make it a song. The title Jolene Referring to the singer’s jealousy, who one day believed to lose her husband, thinking that he had fallen in love with a young banker just after their marriage.