Dolly Parton’s hit song “Jolene” was inspired by a woman who harbored a crush on Parton’s husband, Carl Dean.
The singer, who died on Tuesday, penned the 1973 hit after a female bank teller flirted with Dean while helping him at the bank.
“[The] song was loosely based on a little bit of truth,” she said during the 2014 Glastonbury Festival, per The Independent. “I wrote that years ago when my husband … was spending a little more time with Jolene than I thought he should be.”
“She got this terrible crush on my husband,” Parton told NPR in October 2008. “And he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention. It was kinda like…
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