Dolly Parton watch Stephen Colbert Cry with an old folk song

"Like many Americans, I'm under a lot of stress right now, Dolly."


Even unfatted end-of-night hosts are immune to treasury charms for the exchange of national songsDolly Parton. October 20,Stephen Colbert(virtually) welcomed thecountry star onThe late showTo discuss his new book,Dolly Parton, Songurteller: my life in LyricsAnd the interview ended in tears - the right guy. Dolly Parton made Stephen Colbert cry when she sangan old song His mother sang for her and who can blame him?

Speaking of the book, Parton revealed that being a songwriter is more important for her than being an interpreter. "I like playing, and I love my fans, but there is just something about the writing of songs that look like a bit like my personal time with God," she said. Colbert raised the mother of Parton and his influence on the composition of the artist, especially since they concern songs that tell stories. "Mom sang all these songs brought from the old world," said Parton, before giving an example: an old folk song called "Burst under the willow. "

"So many of these songs were sad and as I said, some of them come from" pitiful plum ", she said, laughing." ["Burying myself under the willow" wearing a girl who was going to get married and His boyfriend left her to the altar or anything, so she died, of course ... "

Then, Parton launched in the song, a cappella. "Enside me under the willow, under the crying willow, where he can know where I sleep and maybe he's going to cry for me," goes the lyrics.

When Parton noticed that Colbert pulled his eyes with a handkerchief, she stopped: "Do you cry?"

"So I'd better fall before crying to death and we can not finish the show," she says after singing some extra lines.

"Like many Americans, I'm under a lot of stress right now, Dolly," Colbert said, "And you've been under my traveling thread there, I'll tell you right there, it was quite handsome."

"We used to cry when Mom would sing, however," replied Parton, validating the reaction of the host. "Mama would cry, we would cry ..."

It is clear that Colbert was legitimately moved by the impromptu performance of Parton and his reaction was contagious. NumerousThe viewers took to social media Express that the clip has made them a little misty too.

Keep reading some of our favorite Dolly Parton talks over the years. And for the most famous person who shares your year of birth, checkThe biggest star that is the same age as you.

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Disappoint a song at Johnny Carson

Dolly Parton singing to Johnny Carson
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WhenMagnolias steelwent out in 1989,Parton came onTonight And carried out a song that she wrote especially for the host at the time. "Now everyone knows my name, no matter where I'm going, but I have never really done it until theJohnny Carson show, "she sang. For more music legends, checkIt was the hottest pop star of the year you got.

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Chat with Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston interviewing Dolly Parton
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In 2019,Hello Americahad Parton andJennifer Aniston Mutually maintenance after teaming on the movie NetflixDumplin '. (Aniston played and produced, while Parton wrote Soundtrack songs.) Parton touched the song she has most often asked to sing ("9 to 5") and confirmed the story she has Once entered in a Dolly Parton Lookal contest and lost. To see more of his greatest successes of his interviewer,Relive the last 25 years of Jennifer Aniston in Hollywood, on Photos.

Explain your style to Barbara Walters

Dolly Parton on The View in 1998
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"I think a lot of it has just had nothing like a child,"Parton said of his aesthetic "bigger than life" toViewIn 1998. "I felt like much more inside than what I looked out." For the stars who did not escape away from home, check24 celebrities who still live in their hometown.

Tell dan rather why she is such a prolific writer

Dolly Parton Dan Rather interview
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"At least. I mean, I had boxes, switch drawers, chests, trunks, trunks of the army [full of songs],"Parton told CBSDanBack in 2004, when he raised the statistics she wrote 3,000 tracks. "I write something almost every day. Things just come to me - funny things, sad things, according to my mood. I have to write that. It's like my therapy, it's like my doctor."

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