Better Get To Livin' - Inspirational Words Of Wisdom From Dolly Parton

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Better Get To Livin' By Dolly Parton- Advice And Inspiration If You Are Feeling Down.

I have to confess that when I first heard Dolly Partons Better Get To Livin' on the radio, I didn't like it at all but, like most Dolly Parton music, it grows on you till you can't get it out of your head and you find yourself singing along to dolly partons latest song throught the day, its catchy, has a message andcontributes to making you feel better!

The video for 'Better Get To Livin' is one of the best Dolly Parton music videos I have seen, great costumes and it gets the message of the song over well, so if you haven't seen it yet be sure watch it.

Better Get To Livin - The Message? 

Don't you sometimes feel so down that you can't see where you are going to turn next? The words in the song suggest that we shouldn't wallow in our depression, we can do something about it!

I guess because she always looks good, is so upbeat and has such a bubbly fun personality the song starts with the words:
"People always comin' up to me and askin' Dolly, what's your secret?"

When always look happy and full of life, its in peoples nature to ask how you do it, how do you always seem so happy and optimistic?
Dollys message is not to wallow in your own misery but try to lift yourself up and try to make the changes needed to make things better!

Life is short so we all need to make the most of it while we can!
"The day we're born we start to die
Don't waste one minute of this life"


The full lyrics for Better Get To Livin' can easily be found by searching Google

Better Get To Livin' Music Video 

Listen to Better Get To Livin and watch the video here

In the first verse of this song there is a lyric which goes "Well I'm not the Dalai Lama" - I swear she is singing "I am not the Dolly Lama"! Quite a clever pun if she is :)
Listen and tell me what you think.

Dolly Parton - Better Get To Livin'

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Better Get To Livin Mp3 Download From Amazon 

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More Inspirational Words  

From Dolly Parton, one of the most inspriational people

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

"The magic is inside you. There ain't no crystal ball."

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose.".

Dolly Parton: Backwoods Barbie 

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Track Listing
1. Better Get To Livin'
2. Made of Stone
3. Drives Me Crazy
4. Backwoods Barbie
5. Jesus & Gravity
6. Only Dreamin'
7. The Tracks of My Tears
8. The Lonesomes
9. Cologne
10. Shinola
11. I Will Forever Hate Roses
12. Somebody's Everything

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Dolly Parton isn't just a great Country Singer, she has acted in some fantastic movies too.

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What Wikipedia Has To Say About Dolly Parton 

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated, Tony Award-nominated, and Emmy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, best known for her Category: wikt - :prolific|prolific work in country music.

In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she remains one of the most-successful female artists in the history of the country genre, with 25 number-one singles , and a record 41 top-10 country albums. She has the distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five decades and is the only artist to score a number-one country single in each of the past four decades.

She is known for her distinctive Tennessee-mountain soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, Category: wikt - :flamboyant|flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure.

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flighty02 wrote...

When I first heard this song I have to admit that it got on my nerves! However, it is one of those that grows on you.
In the first verse there is a lyric which goes "Well I'm not the Dalai Lama" I swear she is singing "I am not the Dolly Lama"! Quite a clever pun if she is :)
Listen and tell me what you think.

ReplyPosted June 23, 2008

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