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''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.

The album is listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. The record was also listed at nr. #301 in Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]] In 2011 it was also added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.

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''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.

The album is listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. The record was also listed at nr. #301 in Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]]
charts. In 2011 it was also added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.




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''Coat Of Many Colors'' is Music/DollyParton's eight studio album, released in 1971, and best remembered for the title track, which ended up on # 4 in the U.S. country charts.

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''Coat Of Many Colors'' is Music/DollyParton's eight eighth studio album, released in 1971, and best remembered for the title track, which ended up on # 4 in the U.S. country charts.

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yes, kids are cruel


* FemmeFatale: "She's Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like)"
--> ''I know it isn't real love that you see in her eyes''
--> ''Cause she's never met a man she didn't like''
--> ''And you're no different from the others''
--> ''A new acquaintence in the night''
--> ''You mean no more to her than all the others she's held tight''



* FemmeFatale: "She's Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like)"
--> ''I know it isn't real love that you see in her eyes''
--> ''Cause she's never met a man she didn't like''
--> ''And you're no different from the others''
--> ''A new acquaintence in the night''
--> ''You mean no more to her than all the others she's held tight''

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* FemmeFatale: "She's Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like)"
--> ''I know it isn't real love that you see in
KidsAreCruel: In the title track, as a young Dolly goes to school to proudly show off her eyes''
--> ''Cause she's never met a man
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 didn't like''
--> ''And you're
had learned a very cruel lesson about life and her classmates, who still looked down on her and had little to no different from understanding -- or desire to understand -- the others''
--> ''A new acquaintence in
[[AnAesop lessons of the night''
--> ''You mean no more
Bible]] (''One is only poor only if they choose to her than all the others she's held tight''be'').
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'''Coat Of Many Colors''' is Music/DollyParton's eight studio album, released in 1971, and best remembered for the title track, which ended up on # 4 in the U.S. country charts.

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'''Coat ''Coat Of Many Colors''' Colors'' is Music/DollyParton's eight studio album, released in 1971, and best remembered for the title track, which ended up on # 4 in the U.S. country charts.
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The album is widely seen as her MagnumOpus, listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. The record was also listed at nr. #301 in Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]] In 2011 it was also added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.

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The album is widely seen as her MagnumOpus, listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. The record was also listed at nr. #301 in Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]] In 2011 it was also added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.
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The album is widely seen as her MagnumOpus, listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. In 2011 it was also added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.

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The album is widely seen as her MagnumOpus, listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. The record was also listed at nr. #301 in Magazine/RollingStone's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]] In 2011 it was also added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.
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The album is widely seen as her MagnumOpus, listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. It was also added to UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.

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The album is widely seen as her MagnumOpus, listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. It In 2011 it was also added to the UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.
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* ShoutOut: "She Never Met a Man (She Didn't Like)" is a sarcastic paraphrase of Creator/WillRogers' CatchPhrase.
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Tears actually tend to be colorless.


* CaptainObvious: "Blue Tears", because there are ''so'' many different colors tears could have, right?

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* BlueBirdOfHappiness: Subverted with "My Blue Tears", where Dolly tells said bird to fly away as she can't be cheered up.



* CaptainObvious: "Blue Tears", because there are ''so'' many different colors tears could have, right?



* CradleOfLonelinesss: "Here I Am"

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* CradleOfLonelinesss: CradleOfLoneliness: "Here I Am"



* FaceOnTheCover: A painting of Dolly as a child, in her coat.



* IWantMyMummy: 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.

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* IWantMyMummy: 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.



* SadSong: "My Blue Tears"
--> ''I'm in no mood for to hear your sad song''.
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'''Coat Of Many Colors''' is Music/DollyParton's eight studio album, released in 1971, and best remembered for the title track, which ended up on # 4 in the U.S. country charts.

The album is widely seen as her MagnumOpus, listed in Magazine/TimeMagazine's ''TimeAllTime100Albums'' list in 2006. It was also added to UsefulNotes/NationalRecordingRegistry.

'''Tracklist'''

Side 1
# "Coat Of Many Colors" (3:05)
# "Traveling Man" (2:40)
# "My Blue Tears" (2:16)
# "If I Lose My Mind" (2:29)
# "The Mystery Of The Mystery" (2:28)

Side 2
# "She's Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like)" (2:41)
# "Early Morning Breeze" (2:54)
# "The Way I See You" (2:46)
# "Here I Am" (3:19)
# "A Better Place To Live" (2:19)



!! Tropes Of Many Colors
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''C'''oat Of Many '''C'''olors" and "The '''M'''ystery Of The '''M'''ystery".
* AllMenArePerverts: "If I Lose My Mind"
--> ''You know how much I've always loved him, Mama''
--> ''But he done things to me I couldn't understand''
--> ''Why, he made me watch him love another woman''
--> ''And he tried to make me love another man''
* AsTheGoodBookSays: The album title alludes to the biblical song about Joseph's coat of many colors, which is also explained during the title track.
--> ''She made my coat of many colors''
--> ''That I was so proud of''
--> ''As she sewed, she told a story''
--> ''From the Bible, she had read''
--> ''About a coat of many colors''
--> ''Joseph wore and then she said''
--> ''Perhaps this coat will bring you''
--> ''Good luck and happiness''
* 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".
* ColorfulSong: "A Coat Of Many Colors" describe a coat made out of colorful rags that Dolly's mother gave to her.
* CradleOfLonelinesss: "Here I Am"
--> ''My world is such an empty place''
--> ''I need someone to fill the space''
--> ''And here I am, oh here I am, here I am''
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife:
** "A Better Place To Live"
--> ''There's a bit of magic in a simple little smile''
--> ''Something that just makes life seem a little more worthwhile''
** "The Mystery Of The Mystery"
--> ''There are so many things that I don't understand''
--> ''And I search my mind to try and find an answer''
--> ''But the more I search the less I seem to find out why''
--> ''Like where the wind goes, how does life begin?''
--> ''What happens when we die?''
--> ''The mystery of the mystery must stay unknown''
--> ''Only God can know and man must not see''
--> ''Great minds have tried but they will not find''
--> ''The answer to the mystery of the mystery''
* GodIsLoveSongs: "Early Morning Breeze"
--> ''For there among the flowers I kneel gently to my knees''
--> ''To have a word with God in the early morning breeze''.
* IWantMyMummy: 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.
* ItsAllAboutMe: "A Better Place To Live"
--> ''All life has to offer that's what most folks desire''
--> ''But offer nothing in return, cause they don't seem to care''
* FemmeFatale: "She's Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like)"
--> ''I know it isn't real love that you see in her eyes''
--> ''Cause she's never met a man she didn't like''
--> ''And you're no different from the others''
--> ''A new acquaintence in the night''
--> ''You mean no more to her than all the others she's held tight''
* OneManSong: "Traveling Man".
* 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. ]]
* PepTalkSong: "A Better Place To Live".
--> ''We could make the world we're living in a better place to live''
--> ''And if we'd all climb together, we could climb the highest hill''
* 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.
--> ''And I tried to make them see''
--> ''That one is only poor''
--> ''Only if they choose to be''
--> ''Now I know we had no money''
--> ''But I was rich as I could be''
* ThePowerOfLove: "The Way I See You"
--> ''I compare it with the beauty of the dawning''
--> ''Or when the sun sets and paints its picture in the blue''
--> ''Like a butterfly that has a million colors, all such beauty''
--> ''What a love in the way I see you''
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Coat Of Many Colors" was inspired by Dolly's own youth. She still owns the coat described in the song.
* SadSong: "My Blue Tears"
--> ''I'm in no mood for to hear your sad song''.
* TitleTrack: "Coat Of Many Colors"
--> ''From the Bible, she had read''
--> ''About a coat of many colors''
* {{Utopia}}: "A Better Place To Live" describes a world where people can live in peace and harmony together.
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