Dumb Blonde

Album: Hello, I'm Dolly (1967)
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  • Don't try to cry your way out of this
    Don't try to lie or I'll catch you in it
    Don't try to make me feel sorry for you
    Just because I'm blonde
    Don't think I'm dumb
    'Cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool

    When you left you thought I'd sit
    An' you thought I'd wait
    An' you thought I'd cry
    You called me a dumb blonde (dumb blonde)
    Ah, but somehow I lived through it
    And you know if there's one thing this blonde has learned
    Blondes have more fun

    You flew too high off of the ground
    It's stormy weather an' had to come back down
    But I've found new thread for my old spool
    Just because I'm blonde
    Don't think I'm dumb
    'Cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool

    When you left you thought I'd sit
    An' you thought I'd wait
    An' you thought I'd cry
    You called me a dumb blonde (dumb blonde)
    Ah, but somehow I lived through it
    And you know if there's one thing this blonde has learned
    Blondes have more fun

    You flew too high off of the ground
    It's stormy weather an' had to come back down
    But I've found new thread for my old spool
    Just because I'm blonde
    Don't think I'm dumb
    'Cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool Writer/s: Curly Putman
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 3

  • Grace Puckett from Greenfield Tni love the movie DUMPLIN i love DOLLY
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 20th 1959, Louisiana's Goldband Records released "Puppy Love" by Dolly Parton; she was thirteen years old at the time but it was actually recorded two years earlier...
    Eight years later in 1967 she would have her first nationally charted record, "Dumb Blonde", it peaked at #24 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart...
    And in 1973 she made Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart for the first time with "Jolene", it reached #60...
    Ms. Parton celebrated her 68th birthday three months ago on January 19th.
  • John from Atlanta, Ga, GaOn NBC's Tonight Show, host Johnny Carson once asked Dolly how she felt when people called her a "dumb blond." She replied "well Johnny, it don't bother me for two reasons. One, I know I'm not dumb. And two, I know I'm not a blond!"
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