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3	''Coat Of Many Colors'' is Music/DollyParton's eighth studio album, released in 1971, and best remembered for the title track, which ended up on # 4 in the U.S. country charts. In 2011 it was added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.
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5	'''Tracklist'''
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7	[[AC:Side One]]
8	# "Coat Of Many Colors" (3:05)
9	# "Traveling Man" (2:40)
10	# "My Blue Tears" (2:16)
11	# "If I Lose My Mind" (2:29)
12	# "The Mystery Of The Mystery" (2:28)
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14	[[AC:Side Two]]
15	# "She's Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like)" (2:41)
16	# "Early Morning Breeze" (2:54)
17	# "The Way I See You" (2:46)
18	# "Here I Am" (3:19)
19	# "A Better Place To Live" (2:19)
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21	!! Tropes Of Many Colors
22	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''C'''oat Of Many '''C'''olors" and "The '''M'''ystery Of The '''M'''ystery".
23	* AllMenArePerverts: "If I Lose My Mind"
24	--> ''You know how much I've always loved him, Mama''
25	--> ''But he done things to me I couldn't understand''
26	--> ''Why, he made me watch him love another woman''
27	--> ''And he tried to make me love another man''
28	* AsTheGoodBookSays: The album title alludes to the biblical song about Joseph's coat of many colors, which is also explained during the title track.
29	--> ''She made my coat of many colors''
30	--> ''That I was so proud of''
31	--> ''As she sewed, she told a story''
32	--> ''From the Bible, she had read''
33	--> ''About a coat of many colors''
34	--> ''Joseph wore and then she said''
35	--> ''Perhaps this coat will bring you''
36	--> ''Good luck and happiness''
37	* BlueBirdOfHappiness: Subverted with "My Blue Tears", where Dolly tells said bird to fly away as she can't be cheered up.
38	* BreakUpSong: "My Blue Tears", where Dolly tells a blue bird to fly away, for "the one that I have loved, he has left me and gone" and "I'm in no mood for to hear your sad song".
39	* ColorfulSong: "A Coat Of Many Colors" describe a coat made out of colorful rags that Dolly's mother gave to her.
40	* CradleOfLoneliness: "Here I Am"
41	--> ''My world is such an empty place''
42	--> ''I need someone to fill the space''
43	--> ''And here I am, oh here I am, here I am''
44	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife:
45	** "A Better Place To Live"
46	--> ''There's a bit of magic in a simple little smile''
47	--> ''Something that just makes life seem a little more worthwhile''
48	** "The Mystery Of The Mystery"
49	--> ''There are so many things that I don't understand''
50	--> ''And I search my mind to try and find an answer''
51	--> ''But the more I search the less I seem to find out why''
52	--> ''Like where the wind goes, how does life begin?''
53	--> ''What happens when we die?''
54	--> ''The mystery of the mystery must stay unknown''
55	--> ''Only God can know and man must not see''
56	--> ''Great minds have tried but they will not find''
57	--> ''The answer to the mystery of the mystery''
58	* FaceOnTheCover: A painting of Dolly as a child, in her coat.
59	* FemmeFatale: "She's Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like)"
60	--> ''I know it isn't real love that you see in her eyes''
61	--> ''Cause she's never met a man she didn't like''
62	--> ''And you're no different from the others''
63	--> ''A new acquaintence in the night''
64	--> ''You mean no more to her than all the others she's held tight''
65	* GodIsLoveSongs: "Early Morning Breeze"
66	--> ''For there among the flowers I kneel gently to my knees''
67	--> ''To have a word with God in the early morning breeze''.
68	* IWantMyMommy: Dolly's mother is very present in many of the songs, but in "If I Lose My Mind" she wants to be "her little girl again" after she left her former lover.
69	* ItsAllAboutMe: "A Better Place To Live"
70	--> ''All life has to offer that's what most folks desire''
71	--> ''But offer nothing in return, cause they don't seem to care''
72	* KidsAreCruel: In the title track, as a young Dolly goes to school to proudly show off her new coat ... only for her classmates to cruelly make fun of her (''Just to find the other's laughing''/''and making fun of me''). Dolly reveals she had learned a very cruel lesson about life and her classmates, who still looked down on her and had little to no understanding -- or desire to understand -- the [[AnAesop lessons of the Bible]] (''One is only poor only if they choose to be'').
73	* OneManSong: "Traveling Man".
74	* ParentalAbandonment: "Traveling Man" [[spoiler: in which the protagonist plans on running off with a traveling man, only to find out that her mother has beat her to it. ]]
75	* PepTalkSong: "A Better Place To Live".
76	--> ''We could make the world we're living in a better place to live''
77	--> ''And if we'd all climb together, we could climb the highest hill''
78	* PerpetualPoverty: "Coat Of Many Colors" is about Dolly's childhood and the poverty she grew up in. In the song her mother makes her a coat out of a box of colorful rags. Dolly is proud of her coat, but children at school laugh at her.
79	--> ''And I tried to make them see''
80	--> ''That one is only poor''
81	--> ''Only if they choose to be''
82	--> ''Now I know we had no money''
83	--> ''But I was rich as I could be''
84	* ThePowerOfLove: "The Way I See You"
85	--> ''I compare it with the beauty of the dawning''
86	--> ''Or when the sun sets and paints its picture in the blue''
87	--> ''Like a butterfly that has a million colors, all such beauty''
88	--> ''What a love in the way I see you''
89	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Coat Of Many Colors" was inspired by Dolly's own youth. She still owns the coat described in the song.
90	* ShoutOut: "She Never Met a Man (She Didn't Like)" is a sarcastic paraphrase of Creator/WillRogers' CatchPhrase.
91	* TitleTrack: "Coat Of Many Colors"
92	--> ''From the Bible, she had read''
93	--> ''About a coat of many colors''
94	* {{Utopia}}: "A Better Place To Live" describes a world where people can live in peace and harmony together.

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