Name: Dolly Parton Delivers Commencement Address at the University of Tennessee 2009!
Uploaded: 2013-03-13T16:41:50.000Z
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And I want to say congratulations to every single one of you.

That graduated today. I was listing to your names.

I&rsquo;ve been back there waiting for you to finish so I could start up.

Anyway, I know this is a big big day for you.

And I never dreamed, never ever ever dreamed that I would be a commencement speaker.

No problem, but making speeches I&rsquo;m a little nervous.

Nervous, because I know that I am suppose to say something meaningful to you.

Maybe some good advice for you to always remember.

But, what has worked for me may not work for you.

High heel shoes, five inch high heel shoes.

All I gotta say, take my advices some of you boys out there may find yourself on a little different career path.

And you girls better be careful too seriously.

I wanted to tell you that the way I look is a country girls idea of glamour.

There was a, what you call a town trollop in our town.

Well I thought she was the prettiest thing I&rsquo;d every seen when I was a little girl.

I&rsquo;d see her and I would say oh she&rsquo;s just so pretty.

And they&rsquo;d say oh she&rsquo;s just trash.

And I thought that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m gonna be when I grow up.

And I know that sometimes I look like it but hopefully I&rsquo;m a little more than that.

I&rsquo;d like to believe that there is a brain beneath all this hair.

But seriously this entire moment reminds me of the first time I ever got up to sing on stage

Now I was just a kid and I was nervous then too.

And I wasn&rsquo;t sure that I was going to be able to deliver what the audience wanted from me.

So I just started up and sang the same song again.

Cause I&rsquo;m not going to repeat this speech. I don&rsquo;t care how much you like it.

But, seriously I remember , you know, all of that.

They are as proud of you as they will probably ever be.

And they love you as much as they probably ever will.

Seems to me like a good time for you to ask them for a loan.

We got the smart bank up here. I&rsquo;m sure they could help you out with that.

You know several years ago I created the Dollywood foundation.

Now I know we wanted to do things to inspire kids.

But, like all good organizations we needed the right mission to guide us.

And in the end what we came up with was pretty simple.

Now when I was thinking about what I should say to you today.

Well those four simple things just kept coming back to me.

So I thought that I would use this as a way to share my thoughts with you.

Now Governor Bredensen said a whole bunch of things.

That I was going to say, but I didn&rsquo;t know he was going to say them.

So I&rsquo;m going to say what I have to say.

Cause he was right on the money with a whole lot of things he said about me.

Now when I was a kid I use to put a tin can on a broom handle.

I use stick it down in the crack out on the porch of our old cabin.

And of course in my mind&rsquo;s eye I was standing on a stage.

And those were not chickens out there in the yard.

It was a dress all a glitter with rhinestones.

Now the night I graduated from Sevier County High School.

We were all asked to stand up and talk about what we were going to do with the rest of our lives.

And when it came my time I stood right up there.

I said I&rsquo;m going to Nashville and I&rsquo;m going to be a star.