Back in 1969, Dolly Parton penned one of the most personal and emotional songs of her career. She described in her 1994 memoir that, while traveling on tour, the lyrics came to her when she had no paper to write them down. Parton then took note of them on the back of a dry cleaning receipt she found.

That song went on to become a hit when she recorded it in April 1971, as the lead single of her album of the same name: Coat of Many Colors.

“So with patches on my britches/And holes in both my…