Songwriter: Dolly Parton
Producer: Bob Ferguson
[Guitar Introduction]
[Chorus]
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
[Verse 1]
Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you, Jolene
[Verse 2]
He talks about you in his sleep
There's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name, Jolene
And I can easily understand
How you could easily take my man
But you don't know what he means to me, Jolene
[Chorus]
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
[Verse 3]
You could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me, Jolene
I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And whatever you decide to do, Jolene
[Chorus]
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Jolene, Jolene
[Chorus]
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
[Verse 1]
Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you, Jolene
[Verse 2]
He talks about you in his sleep
There's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name, Jolene
And I can easily understand
How you could easily take my man
But you don't know what he means to me, Jolene
[Chorus]
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
[Verse 3]
You could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me, Jolene
I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And whatever you decide to do, Jolene
[Chorus]
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Jolene, Jolene
The Essential Dolly Parton
- 9 to 5
- Light Of A Clear Blue Morning
- Starting Over Again
- Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You)
- Heartbreak Express
- But You Know I Love You
- Single Women
- Save the Last Dance for Me
- Tennesssee Homesick Blues
- You’re the Only One
- God Won’t Get You
- Why’d You Come In Here Lookin’ Like That
- Rockin’ Years
- Shine
- Islands in the Stream
- To Know Him Is to Love Him
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Heartbreaker
- I Really Got the Feeling
- Two Doors Down
- Coat of Many Colors
- Dumb Blonde
- Just Because I’m a Woman
- My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
- Joshua
- Touch Your Woman
- Love Is Like a Butterfly
- The Bargain Store
- My Tennessee Mountain Home
- Jolene
- We Used To
- The Seeker
- All I Can Do
- Here You Come Again
- I Will Always Love You
- It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right
- Please Don’t Stop Loving Me
- Jolene (1974)
- The Best Of Dolly Parton (Vol. 2) (1975)
- Something Special (1995)
- The Essential Dolly Parton (2005)
- Classic Country Gold (2005)
- The Very Best of Dolly Parton (2007)
- Whip It (Music From the Motion Picture) (2009)
- NOW That’s What I Call Legends [UK] (2014)
- NOW That’s What I Call 70s [UK] (2016)
- NOW That’s What I Call Country [UK] (2017)
- A Dona do Pedaço, Vol. 1 (2019)
- Country Music: The Soundtrack (2019)
- NOW 100 Hits Country [UK] (2020)
- Jolene
- 9 to 5
- Coat of Many Colors
- I Will Always Love You
- Just Because I’m a Woman
- Here You Come Again
- From Here to the Moon and Back
- Cracker Jack
- Girl in the Movies
- Dumb Blonde
- Rockin’ Years
- Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
- Little Sparrow
- Here I Am
- The Bridge
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls
- Two Doors Down
- Red Shoes
- When Life Is Good Again
- Me and Little Andy
- Hard Candy Christmas
- Eagle When She Flies
- Joshua