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Dolly Parton Releases Heartbreakingly Beautiful Tribute Song For Late Husband Carl Dean: ‘If You Hadn’t Been There’

Dolly Parton released a heartbreakingly beautiful tribute song in honor of her late husband Carl Dean on Friday (March 7), 'If You Hadn't Been There.'

So it’s perfectly fitting that following the death earlier this week of her husband of 60 years, Carl Thomas Dean, Parton paid tribute to her lifelong partner with a heartbreakingly beautiful musical testament to their endless love. As a swaying fiddle comes in and the beat picks up, Parton swells into her full voice while paying tribute to the famously attention-shy partner who she says was truly her other half. Parton met Dean the day she moved to Nashville at age 18 to pursue a career in music and they got married a short time later in in Georgia in 1966, two years after that first run-in at the Wishy Washy Laundromat.

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