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Dolly Parton Shares Thoughts on Beyoncé’s ‘Jolene’ Cover

The singer said she loved Beyonce’s “completely different take” of her iconic song.

Dolly Parton revealed what she really thought about Beyoncé’s cover of “Jolene," which appeared on her Cowboy Carter album with different lyrics and a different tone. “Hers was more like, ‘Well, you’re not getting him, you’re not taking him, you’re going to go through me to get him.’ Mine was more like, ‘Please don’t take him!’ So I loved her interpretation,” Parton said. One of the biggest changes Beyoncé made to the song was to the chorus, reworking it from “I’m begging you, please don’t take my man” to “I’m warning you, don’t come for my man.” Parton added that she loves hearing different interpretations of her work and was “very proud” of Beyoncé’s cover. “I hope her tour does great, and I’m sure it will. People seem to be loving it,” she said. Parton was featured in two of Beyoncé’s songs on the Cowboy Carter album, and said that it was a “really, really good album.” Beyoncé is currently on tour for the Cowboy Carter Tour.