So true. I feel the same way about this song and the West Virginia song. "Country road take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home country road." Knowing full well that I'm a city girl🌃😁
Dolly Parton has one of the most precise voices in the history of American music. No matter what type of music you're into, listen on the bridges all those little warbles and notes she puts into every vocal. And the personality and storytelling conveyed. She's an absolute treasure to Appalachian music culture.
I saw that happen on Key West in Sloppy Joe's Bar. lol All the rednecks were on their chairs and the table tops, singing "Rocky Top" at the top of their lungs. That was 40 yrs ago, still with me today when I hear this song. lol
I was forced to moved to Texas...but every time this song comes on I remember that I was born at UT hospital there on my favorite river, and that I was blessed to grow up among those valleys of trees and green, a .22 rifle slung on my shoulder, the smell of honeysuckle by the creek...I love ya, Rocky Top....and you too Dolly ❤️ #volunteerforlife
As a born and bred Tennessee child and a rocky top baby, everything about this song you imagine, the beating of your heart as the banjo plays, the beauty of the mountains, the best moonshine in all of the US, the place will always be a home.
So blessed to be able to live in the great state of Tennessee and be able to go to Dollywood and enjoy this kind of music year round. ♥ Dolly #Rocky Top #Go Big Orange.
Im so jealous! Thats my dream place to live one day! Have been visiting every chance i get since I was born!! Im stuck in this horrible, violent city of Sav ga! Hope n pray to join u soon!!
@@amyd3047 I wouldn't want to live any place else in the world I love it here.🧡 I love having the best of both worlds close enough to run to a local shopping mall or just a hop, skip and a jump to the beautiful smoky mountains 🌄
Dolly gave the commencement speech for UT back in 2010 or 2011 when my sister graduated. Must say that was the ONLY time I actually didn't nod off mentally in this type of commencement ceremony. She gave a very memorable speech about chasing your dreams, no matter how far fetched and never forgetting where you came from. Then she led the whole crowd in a round of Rocky Top while playing the acoustic guitar, man we lifted the roof on that arena, could not have had a more east Tennessee moment.
I live in Virginia but i have been to DollyWood more times than I can count and this song gets me so pumped reminds me of my childhood going to Pegion Forge and GatlinBurg Tennessee.
We love the artists and band. Thank you to Dolly Parton for extra effort on sending the books to our library. Our kids would love to get them to perform at our local concerts which would be too much to ask for. Rocky top Tenesse!! Go RTT
Rocky Top always reminds me of going to my grand uncle's house in Sevier County when I was growing up. They lived way back in a holler, one way in and out, and mountains all around them.
I’m an Alabama rural country boy born and raised. Lived in the city for two years while in high school; I hated it. I really felt “Trapped like a duck in a pen.” Everyone in your business, people saying you have to do this or you can do that, you look out your kitchen window and see your neighbors living room. My family moved back to the country as soon as we could. My heart will always be amongst the trees and grassy fields, looking over the mountain’s edge in the summer morning as fog rises from the river below covering the landscape. It’s as if you are flying in the sky; your at the very top of the world peering into Heaven.
Dolly love this song. Also it has been a family tradition to go to DollyWood every year. We love it. The good food,rides,and most importantly the nice workers
Thank U 🙏 so much @Dolly Parton @DollyParton35Years and everyone involved in the video for sharing this beautiful angelic blessed wonderful music with all of us!!! SO amazing! 🙏👏✨😇🎉🌈💖💐🎈🌺💚☮️👌🦤🌟🎂🇺🇸🪴🍶🍀🏍🦾🗽🌎♻️ Respectful xoxo 2 EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE from 🇨🇱 Joyfully blessed Texas! 🥰
The Osborne Brothers are much better. As for strictly female performers, this is total GARBAGE compared to Lynn Anderson's performance of it. Lynn spends most of her performance SINGING instead of just TALKING the lyrics.
2019 listening in Loud and Clear what a great Song and Dolly Well just Amazing as ever ...Happy New Year....Dolly wishing you the best of Health and Happiness...ol couple of 50 years way down in TX
Love Dolly since the day we were neighbors in a tiny motel in St. Lawrence County, NY. I was the fair's emcee and Porter and Dolly were the headliners. Dolly and I sat on the curb outside our rooms and chatted for a couple of hours that night. And, on the rare times I see her now, we go in that big RV of hers and recall how the moon and stars were so brightly lit that night.
We always play this when going to see family from KY to NC!!! Even the family Chihuahua Papi sings along with it!!! We sing & he howls his little heart out when this is playing!!!
I know a lady here in mn. that sings this song in karaoke and it was in my head this morning so i had to find it just to get it out my head. I love Dolly Partons voice and her feisty personality. Im glad to know i picked the right video
I had the privilege of visit Mobil, Alabama, i 2002 , thats when I heard that song, I was totally blown away with it. Just wanted to share that, much love and respect to you all from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤❤
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When I was 2 or 3 years old, a relative of mine who was in the music industry took me with him to Dolly's farm to deliver some business papers, or something of the like. ...and to this day, I still remember seeing her, fresh from her garden, without all the makeup and wigs. I suppose that old memory is why I don't quite see her the way the rest of the world does... An amazing woman? Certainly. But also just... one of my neighbors. Anyway, feel free to call me a liar, since I know few will believe what I've said. But do understand that in a time long passed, folks like Dolly were just part of life, around where I grew up. * tips hat *
My cousin shares her birthday with Dolly. Dolly used to send her cards and wished her happy birthday over the radio. What is even more interesting, my cousin was working at the Gatlinburg Inn and would personally wait on "Felice" Bryant (first name was not her real name, but it is what her husband called her) during the time she was writing the song, and Boudleaux, her husband, was there as well helping her. My cousin humbly told me one time that she may have had some influence when the song was being written because the Glades in some parts are rocky which is where our family was from, and then there is my cousin's husband. They married young. He liked (tolerated) cats and they have black bears in the area, and even today my cousin feeds two stray cats and the bears keep coming around her house.(Yes, I think Felice meant a bobcat or maybe a mountain lion, but neither one really fit the song.) My cousin's husband also reminded me a little of Grizzly Adams (RIP Dan Haggerty) when he wore a beard. He had his wild side and sweet side. I miss him, too. So, happy birthday to my cousin and Dolly--January 19. Go, Vols!!, but don't tell Penn State I said so.
+Marian Jean; I forgot to add that one of my favorite rides that my cousin and my aunt used to take us on was Cades Cove where the real Rocky Top overlooks the valley.
