![]() ![]() Parton has called the song "a world of things" and that "it teaches about bullying, about love, about acceptance, about good parents." In my coat of many colors my momma made for me Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be One is only poor, only if they choose to be The song concludes with Parton singing the moral of her story:īut they didn't understand it, and I tried to make them see The excited child, "with patches on my britches and holes in both my shoes", rushed to school, "just to find the others laughing and making fun of me" for wearing a coat made of rags.Īnd oh I could not understand it, for I felt I was richĪnd I told them of the love my momma sewed in every stitchĪnd I told 'em all the story momma told me while she sewedĪnd how my coat of many colors was worth more than all their clothes As she sewed, she told her child the biblical story of Joseph and his Coat of Many Colors. The song tells of how Parton's mother stitched together a coat for her daughter out of rags given to the family. (She explained in her 1994 memoir, My Life and Other Unfinished Business, because she could find no paper, as the song came to her, she wrote it on the back of a dry cleaning receipt from one of Wagoner's suits when the song became a hit, Wagoner had the receipt framed.) She recorded the song in April 1971, making it the title song for her Coat of Many Colors album. ![]() She composed the song in 1969, while traveling with Porter Wagoner on a tour bus. It was released in September 1971 as the second single and title track from the album Coat of Many Colors. " Coat of Many Colors" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Dolly Parton. Original song written and composed by Dolly Parton "Coat of Many Colors" ![]()
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