Looking back on the song, Dolly said, “I guess I’d hear them talk about people drowning themselves and heartbroken girls and all that. She drops the listener immediately into the scene, lays out the emotional response to the soldier’s death and, in a characteristically Dolly move, surprises the listener with a sudden and stunning conclusion. Don’t ever remember thinking like a child.”ĭolly’s storytelling gift is evident here. She called it “a pretty deep song for a kid. It is a sophisticated lyric for a child of that age with its rich imagery, consistent rhyme scheme, and refrain. Dolly loved creating musical sounds, and she was inventive about making instruments to inspire and accompany her melodies.ĭolly’s songwriting began in earnest when she got her first “little baby Martin” guitar when she was about seven or eight: “that’s when I started to write some serious songs.” At around the age of eight or nine, Dolly wrote “Life Doesn’t Mean Much to Me” after overhearing her mom and aunts talking about young men who had been killed in war. And so anything that I could rig up to make a little different sound in addition to the other instruments, I would just do that.” Dolly most enjoyed creating drones, and these sounds were the sonic underpinning over which she spun her melodies.
I don’t know if they were the bass guitar strings or something I had cut off the piano.” Dolly would “bang on” these strings with a stick or, less often, strum with her thumb to create drones, like she did with the old piano: “So I would just make my melodies around sounds. And I had stretched some strings over that. I had an uncle that had a sawmill up the road, and I had him build a board underneath it. And I would get that old droning sound, and it made a really good sound, and I would just make up melodies with that.” She also remembers “rigging up an old mandolin that the neck was gone.
I had wrapped a rag around it to soften the blow, and I would beat on those strings in that old piano. Dolly recalled: “I found an old wooden mallet in the smokehouse.
When she was about six, she would play around with a dilapidated piano in an old church. In addition to rhymes, Dolly loved creating musical sounds, and she was inventive about making instruments to inspire and accompany her melodies. “Little Tiny Tassletop” was about her doll made from a corn cob, dressed in corn husks with corn silk for hair, with two brown eyes burned into the cob with a hot poker: I don’t know what some of this sounded like to my family, but in my head it was beautiful music.ĭolly wrote her first song when she was around five. I would latch on to the rhythm my mother made snapping beans, and before I knew it, I’d be tapping on a pot with a spoon and singing. I would take the two notes of a bobwhite in the darkness and make that the start of a song. I could catch on to anything that had a rhythm and make a song to go with it. Since I have been able to form words, I have been able to rhyme them.
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Her father recalled “she was writing songs before she knew how to hold a pencil.” Dolly described her childhood fascination with rhyme, rhythm, and the everyday sounds she made into music: Songwriting always came easily to Dolly Parton. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.” That’s why I’m so thankful I can write songs. “All of those little pieces of your past, they’re all important.
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