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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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