The Economic Times

As a child, Dolly Parton was mocked for wearing a coat made from rags. Years later, she turned that painful humiliation into one of her most famous songs

Dolly Parton, who died at 80 in Nashville on August 25, came from a poor Tennessee family and often drew from her childhood experiences in her music. One of her most personal memories was being mocked at school for wearing a coat her mother had made from scraps of fabric. Years later, Parton turned that painful experience into Coat of Many Colors, a song about family, love and finding richness in what money cannot buy.