I'm listening in 2024 with tears of joy. How powerful times and seasons can hold the symphony of mankind's curses and blessings. All the story told in one piece of a great melody ❤
We were so poor when we were kids. Our dad died when he was 37 from heart problems . I was 10 months old and my brother was 11 years old. I had 2 sisters that were 9 and 4 also. We never knew we were poor because momma raised a garden and chickens so we would have food. She worked as a waitress. She married a man several years later but they divorced. We got a sweet little sister though. After momma divorced him she just kept going. She worked until she couldn't anymore. She died when she was 41 from cancer. We fought to stay together after that. We're as close as sisters and a big brother could ever be. We lost our precious sister Marlene in 2012 from cancer. Now it's something I'm facing. I'm blessed to have a family to lean on. Some aren't as blessed. This song just brought back so many memories .
This songs always makes me tear up. Back in Jr High, my Dad was struggling to get his little construction company off the ground and we went through some hard times. My brother and I had to wear hand me downs and “knock off” Adidas shoes- Traxx I think? They had holes in em, we drank the yellow generic pop with black lettering at lunch. And we got laughed at & picked on-asked if we were poor, by the kids who got free government lunches yet came to school in brand new clothes and Nike’s or Adidas & got dropped off by their parents in Cadillacs while we had to walk. We weren’t rich but had a lot of love and faith that carried us in those days. It makes me appreciate everything I have now and realize love,faith and family are way more important than money or material things. Thanks Dolly for writing such a beautiful song.
Why does this song bring us to tears? Is it the connection we feel to our past and to our moms? Is it the sad, sweet story Dolly tells? Is it her heart wrenchingly beautiful voice? Maybe it’s all of the above. I’ve never had an emotional reaction to a song like this one.
Story of my life 😭 Growing up was so tough 2024 I am here crying listening to this song. Remembering how my momma struggled and hustle so hard to put food on our table. Sweet mother 😭
This song is so heartbreakingly beautiful; the lyrics tell the story, the simple, stark arrangement, and Dolly's one of a kind voice. Every time I hear it the tears come out; I am typing this through tears now. What a talent
God this is my fervent prayer, please bless me that I will give back to my mom what she denial herself with through the years just to take care of my Lil brother n I. Please give us long life n good health
It's so much of me I was very shy, I went with no foot wear to school sometimes ,my parent can't afford, yet I feel Bless 🙏😇, because I can message to this, meaning I can read an write, an this what matters😇🙏❤️
I just cried all through this song. So beautiful. This song still brings a tear to my eyes... I grew up in an orphanage and would had loved a mother like this! 2020 whose listen😻😻 2020 whose listen😻😻
Its hard for people to understand what love means because the world we live in has become so focused passing judgement on appearances. I am sorry for what you went thru as a child and altho my parents gave me the world ..the world saw it as a box of rags...Looking back I felt I had to equal up to those who had more but now I realize that I was trying to protect them and let them know I proud of all the colors they gave to me🤟🏽
Every time I hear this song I cry, I lost my mom three weeks ago 😢 I would give anything to hug her just one more time to tell her how much I love her.
When I was little I went to a Christian primary school and everyday they would start the day with a Bible lesson and I remember the story of Joseph and his coat of many colours and as a child I loved that he had a coat of many colours and I grew to love that Bible story and when I was 8 my mom played an old cassette that she had and this song was on it and I loved this song since then. My mom would sing it to me. It's been 10years since my mom passed and I listen to this song often and watch the movie of Joseph. This song will forever have a special place in my heart.
Almost 10 years without seeing my mom, due to being in another country, she just sent me a picture of a scarf she's knitting for me out of a few old yarns she had at home. I was quickly reminded of this song so I had to come listen to it once again. -Oh my scarf of many colours that my momma is making for me. Made only from old yarns but I'll wear it so proudly.
My Mom loved this song with her entire being... I ove it because of her reaction to it every time. She's late now, and I'm all alone but I shed a tear every time I hear it.
Yeah its kinda sad that being poor in a money sense these days just dont work :/ if ya dont have the money to get around and have a good life Life is kinda hell trust me im trying to sort everything out and its not fun
quick story that I feel like I need to share. I come form an under pillaged area in Kentucky. My family never really struggled financially, or not that I know of anyway. However, my mom loves sewing and used to make me things like coats. One of these was a really cute purple coat with little roses on it when I was in first or second grade. At the time, I'd not heard much if any Dolly Parton, maybe "9 to 5" but that would have been about it. One of my teachers, Miss S, asked me about that coat at recess one day and I told her my mom made it. She told me it reminded her of a song and sang this for me. I've only just rediscovered this song in college but wanted to write this out on the off hand chance she saw it, because that made my day then, and continues to years later whenever I'm having a hard time. So, Miss S, not that you remember that, I'm one of many kids form my area who went through your class with home made clothing, but thank you for lighting up hard times for years to come that you never knew you could when you sang this song for me.
Simplicity, Clarity, Relevance, Reality and Truth - no way to misconstrue the message. Poignant since the days of Noah, today and beyond. This gift stands on its own - no need for any comparison. Thank you Dolly! This isn't "Dolly gonna be a big star look what I can do and how wonderful I am" - this is Dolly thanking her mother, nakedly, unabashedly, for all the world to see, and telling her how much that patchwork coat of scraps meant to her. What a saintly thing to do.
I always cry whenever I hear this song. It reminds me of my mother. She was always a very nice person who would do anything to help her only son. She absolutely loves me with all of her heart. But yet when I was a bratty kid, I treated like her crap. I would say rude things about her, yell at her for no resson, and sometimes even make fun of her. But then one day she had to go to the emergency room after suffering a heart attack. Thankfully she lived and remains alive and well to this day. But that tragic experience many years ago is what woke me up. Seeing my mom helpless and looking like she was about to die really got to me. It taught me a valuable lesson about the importance of family and how I should never take my mother's love for granted. It showed me how short life really is. I had an epiphany the night that tragedy happened. I thought about how awful it would be if the final words I ever spoke to my beloved mother were something disrespectful. That night was a night that changed my life for the better. It allowed me to realize how important it is to respect the ones we love while we still have them because for all we know, they could be gone in a flash. This song about a mother's love brings back those memories of how much of a terrible son I once was. How could I have ever treated such a generous, loving, kindhearted, sweet person with such disrespect? I was a total monster back then and I feel so bad about it.
I laid my father to rest yesterday & he wanted this song playing - it used to reduce him to tears as it reminded him of his mother & being a child at the end of the war with nothing. Such a beautiful song & something that makes you infinitely grateful later on in life when you start to see what your parents ever did for you in their own way
I am still listening to this wonderful song with many stories it has taught me over the years of 69 years of age of life. In the Year of Our Lord, July 29th. 2023, Saturday, at 5:00pm, on a wonderful afternoon. 😂😂😂 🎉🎉🎉 ❤❤❤ God Bless You All!
+Marco T. Villegas Salas Mother Love. Just like the love a Daddy who is so busy working trying to put food on the table and isn't home enough. He works because he LOVES. It usually takes years for kids to understand that kind of love.
This is the first time I'm actually listening to her songs and gosh I wish I had done so very long ago. I absolutely fell in love with this song. My parents work so hard for everything I have ever had and now I pay all my own things and help them with groceries and bills. It feels so good to give back to them after all they have done for me.
When I was around 6/7, I was a stuck up horrible posh little child. My mum and dad were both from rural areas but they worked there butts off for money for the best for there kids, I thought I had it all growing up - a big house, fancy cars and I lived in a very posh village. I used to slag the not so rich areas when I was young then...my life crashed and I ended up living in one of those areas and my mum and I had nothing at all, we lived on love and other peoples kindness. This song always makes me think about my mum giving me her all to make sure I was safe and I am now so much humbler and hope that nobody will ever think they way I thought, because I and my mum were a lot happier with no Money and strong relationships than when we were rich 💙 #stayhumble
So beautiful! To be honest life is about finding and giving love to everyone and everything, not running after money your whole life till you realize that you've wasted what can not be compensated; your life has no meaning and now it's too late to LIVE it..
Heather Janet tears to my eyes i was a self made millionaire by 23 years old . and thought I was better than everyone else I had the hottest car house wife fancy European vacations . my tounge against others was poison I was a hypocritical egotistical snob.then my wife cheated I became a drug user and a heavy gambler spent all the money and everyone saw my public fall of epic proportion .im.glad that it happened it was an experience that made me see money is nothing it's family friends children I have 2 beautiful son's I struggled to.give them a better life I too am now humble and gently and have love for.humanity ✌✌
Heather Janet tears to my eyes i was a self made millionaire by 23 years old . and thought I was better than everyone else I had the hottest car house wife fancy European vacations . my tounge against others was poison I was a hypocritical egotistical snob.then my wife cheated I became a drug user and a heavy gambler spent all the money and everyone saw my public fall of epic proportion .im.glad that it happened it was an experience that made me see money is nothing it's family friends children I have 2 beautiful son's I struggled to.give them a better life I too am now humble and gently and have love for.humanity ✌✌
There's power in giving. Hardly would the giver of the box of rags know that the gift she gave those many decades ago would be cherished and become a significant object in this beautiful masterpiece by Dolly Parton! Thanks Dolly Parton for sharing your story and giving hope to the world through it.
This song is Christmas ! it's not about your worth based on what your Bank account is. it's the Love you show that our savior taught us. God is Love, we are a shining reflection by showing it also.
And it is Christmas 2019 I'm listening to it. Sending you joy & blessings at Christmas. My husband & I haven't given each other a Christmas gifts you can unwrap this year. We've given each something far far better. Time spent together. No gift could be better as that which the lord himself gave us. The gift of love.
Spent over an hour reading some of the comments, obviously not them all. I recognise a reoccuring theme which is "moved to tears" and not understanding why, I think that many of us were brought up and lived through difficult times, perhaps with limited income for our parents, this song (for me) reminds me of such times where we had very little money and material items, but we had an abundance of love and were seldom left to go without the essentials. My emmotions kick in when I think of my dear Mother bringing up the 4 of us on her own and doing her level best, we had no TV, play stations or food treats like chocolate or ice cream, but like I said, we had LOVE and plenty of it. Another observation from the comments - not a single negative can be found, how wonderful is that in this day and age?
This song reminds me of a sweater my mom stitches for me when i was a kid. I was so proud of wearing it with an image of an apple neatly hand crafted in the front which i like it so much. I remember proudly telling "my mom stitched it for me". Thanks for reminding me of mother wonderful love.
Dolly, you have always made my life very sweet, listening to your gospel and country music. Though I may never get a chance to see you, just know I feel you in the music. You give me very much hope and happiness. May God surely bless you and the ones who sing along with you.
I'm a 66 year old woman. Tears are flowing as I remember my own MAMA making me a vest blazer for me just the same way. Was treated the same way...but I was rich too instead of poor because the LOVE MAMA SEWED BY HAND IN EVERY STITCH. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Who's with me 2019 and still feel the same way they felt the first time you listened....... Even being a man I have a soft heart ♥ and still fell like crying 😢 just like the first time I listened too
This song has such beautiful memories for me my mum always played this to me a s a child when my mum passed away last year we played this song on the way out at her funeral I cryed so hard and wished I could have my mum sing it just one more time to me Thank you mum for leaving me a beautiful song that will alway have me thinking of are time together And thanks to dolly too 🌸
My father introduced this song to me in 2018 when I had a new law firm and making little money. He told me to concentrate on making impact and I'd never be poor. He said true wealth is not in the money we make. This gave me so much confidence to continue. My law firm is 6 to 7 years old and I continue to do better every year and I am financially stable.
I am 31 years old...My Grandfather was a tailor .....I was 8.He made me a coat of many colors...And i was made fun f for it...So this song hits the spot!...I was so proud to have it and wear it!..But they could not understand...Thank you Dolly:)
My mom loves this song this is such a good song and little sparrow I get the song a girl in pain sees a sparrow that Flys so high but didn't fell no pain at all the as songs are good I agree with Dorothy Bennett
I love listening to it with my seven year old son who told me about it. His music teacher told him about the song.We listen to it every night before we go to bed and have also sent the link of the song to our dear ones. It makes us cry.good song.
My mom made all my clothes while I was growing up. I got picked on all the time about it cos we couldn't pay "store bought" clothes. My mom sewed very well and made clothes for a lot of our "neighbors". So this song hits home for me. I still make a lot of my own clothes. Something very satisfying when you say "I made it" and folks look surprised.
aww me2 my mum made some of my clothes cuz she liked sewing & knitting we weren't dirt poor tho... I took up making clothes in my 20's made both my wedding dresses (yes 2 marriages)... good hobby to have... :)
This song is really makes me recall my memory when I was you as being a poor child in our mountain village. It still feels in to my heart deeply. Very good song she has sung.
as a young child this was my favorite song out of all of her songs this is the best one in my opinion and I will always love Dolly Pardon forever she is my hero
I have always loved this song without understanding it, but today I read the lyrics and fell in love with every line. This song is evergreen and resonates with everyone who has known hardship and most of all love and affection.
Who is listening in 2021? This song never gets old. Reminds me every time about my mom and how much she sacrificed to make me who I am today. Let’s appreciate our momma always ❤️❤️❤️
Wow wow wow! I had never heard that song before today. Those lyrics are absolutely beautiful! There are many Nashville stars, but Dolly truly is an artist.
OMG! This song is so meaningful and just struck a nerve in my heart! Wow! Very simple melody and accompaniment but the words are so powerful! Thank you for the music, Dolly Parton!
The song moves every heart even the rich once they faced some hardships in life and such song is from the Bottom of a true heart , it makes me shade Tears
Growing up we were poor, but we were ritch we had love that worth more then money or anything in the world. We were always loved by mom and family. She worked her fingers down to the bone to support us, she worked 5 to 6 jobs to try to make it. I proud of my mother and I love her. This song is what she would always play.
This song is my childhood memory of my mother... when I was real young and before the drugs got her. I only wish my brothers and sister had the same memories I have of when there actually was good times. they are only old enough to remember the bad but I remember when she was happy and singing along to this and dolly’s other greatest.. myself I listen to rock and heavy metal but Dolly Parton is the only artist that can bring to tears. 👊👍
I did not have a "coat of many colors" but I did have a skirt knitted by my mum. Being a poor immigrant family, mum would buy jumpers from the opportunity shops and I would help unravel the jumpers and roll into balls ready to be knitted into something different, like jumpers or skirts. as a six year old, I remember my favourite item mum made me was a skirt with braces over the shoulder. The skirt was black but had round rows of different colors. I loved this skirt and would wear different blouses with it. Years later when I first heard singer Dolly Parton’s song “Coat of Many Colors”, it strongly reminded me of that skirt.
I remember being about 8 years old riding the bus with my portable CD player listening to this and it made me thankful for what i got and not what I don't kids need music like this
I think this is one of the most heartfelt songs ever. Its about love and God and thankfulness of our blessings we have and sometimes we forget how lucky we truly are. And it is a true story written by Dolly who has wrote many songs.Best song ever!
I'm listening in 2024 with tears of joy. How powerful times and seasons can hold the symphony of mankind's curses and blessings. All the story told in one piece of a great melody ❤
I fell in love with it 22 years ago , it's 2024 and m still playing it
Hello
Anyone listening in 2024❤❤
Same here
Yes, old is gold😚🌼
Singing this song for winter festival
Me❤
Me I love my dollyyyyo😅🎉
We were so poor when we were kids. Our dad died when he was 37 from heart problems . I was 10 months old and my brother was 11 years old. I had 2 sisters that were 9 and 4 also. We never knew we were poor because momma raised a garden and chickens so we would have food. She worked as a waitress. She married a man several years later but they divorced. We got a sweet little sister though. After momma divorced him she just kept going. She worked until she couldn't anymore. She died when she was 41 from cancer. We fought to stay together after that. We're as close as sisters and a big brother could ever be. We lost our precious sister Marlene in 2012 from cancer. Now it's something I'm facing. I'm blessed to have a family to lean on. Some aren't as blessed. This song just brought back so many memories .
strong my brother
keep on fighting 💪
I am so sorry
Shirley D ...so touching
Crying out loud😂😂😂😂😂😂
2024 anyone?
July 1: thank y’all for the likes!
Hi there.... ❤
2024 june still listening 😊
hello
July 15th ❤
@@remiralte4441 hello thx for replying
This songs always makes me tear up. Back in Jr High, my Dad was struggling to get his little construction company off the ground and we went through some hard times. My brother and I had to wear hand me downs and “knock off” Adidas shoes- Traxx I think? They had holes in em, we drank the yellow generic pop with black lettering at lunch. And we got laughed at & picked on-asked if we were poor, by the kids who got free government lunches yet came to school in brand new clothes and Nike’s or Adidas & got dropped off by their parents in Cadillacs while we had to walk. We weren’t rich but had a lot of love and faith that carried us in those days. It makes me appreciate everything I have now and realize love,faith and family are way more important than money or material things. Thanks Dolly for writing such a beautiful song.
Feel you on that one man xx
aw man, this is why all kids should get lunch at school... glad u came out of that well! kids can be si cruel
Totally feel you on all that Man!
GOD BLESS Us All !
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Aww..this made me cry. I can relate to it in some ways. I'm glad you're okay now.
Peace be with you
This song makes me cry over memories that aren't my own
Same here!
Same me
I like this song... Make me to remember my mom
Same 😢
Oh damn. That's serious
Why does this song bring us to tears? Is it the connection we feel to our past and to our moms? Is it the sad, sweet story Dolly tells? Is it her heart wrenchingly beautiful voice? Maybe it’s all of the above. I’ve never had an emotional reaction to a song like this one.
Story of my life 😭
Growing up was so tough
2024 I am here crying listening to this song. Remembering how my momma struggled and hustle so hard to put food on our table. Sweet mother 😭
Money is worth nothing.
Love is worth everything.
God bless you Dolly Parton, and everyone else here, Amen.
Thank you
Amen 🙏
Thanks
Amen
No she a thif
I can never get one minute into this song without crying. Unbelievable.
Same here I'm weeping
Me either ... music with soul ALWAYS takes me at the knees 🥰❤️.
Yep it's true 😀😀 dear
This song is so heartbreakingly beautiful; the lyrics tell the story, the simple, stark arrangement, and Dolly's one of a kind voice. Every time I hear it the tears come out; I am typing this through tears now. What a talent
Me too 🥺
God this is my fervent prayer, please bless me that I will give back to my mom what she denial herself with through the years just to take care of my Lil brother n I. Please give us long life n good health
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
In her biography she said this is her favorite sang she wrote. I never knew and now i can 100% see why.
110% I feel the same . It really speaks volumes today.
True
@VeteranCape
Oh. Who did?
@VeteranCape yeah she did 100% write this. She's expressed loads that its her favourite one she's written
It's so much of me I was very shy, I went with no foot wear to school sometimes ,my parent can't afford, yet I feel Bless 🙏😇, because I can message to this, meaning I can read an write, an this what matters😇🙏❤️
Anyone listening in 2021? 🤩
Me its February
Me
Me ,April
No
And you
I just cried all through this song. So beautiful.
This song still brings a tear to my eyes...
I grew up in an orphanage and would had loved a mother like this!
2020 whose listen😻😻
2020 whose listen😻😻
Take heart my friend. Much love and affection from me here in Kenya, Africa. In the Bible, Psalms 27:10 for you please...
Stalking ass bitch
same here
Its hard for people to understand what love means because the world we live in has become so focused passing judgement on appearances. I am sorry for what you went thru as a child and altho my parents gave me the world ..the world saw it as a box of rags...Looking back I felt I had to equal up to those who had more but now I realize that I was trying to protect them and let them know I proud of all the colors they gave to me🤟🏽
Dollyismyfanilovehersongsilovesingingb
Every time I hear this song I cry, I lost my mom three weeks ago 😢 I would give anything to hug her just one more time to tell her how much I love her.
I feel your pain. So sorry for your irreplaceable loss.
I feel your pain ivy . mother's never die, they live
Stay strong … the pain will never finish but it will get easier
@@patrickmurphy7780 💕 thank you
@@maryarmstrong1085 💕 thank you
2020 whose listen😻😻
Meee
Mee
Me all the time
I'm also all night
My favorite ❤️
When I was little I went to a Christian primary school and everyday they would start the day with a Bible lesson and I remember the story of Joseph and his coat of many colours and as a child I loved that he had a coat of many colours and I grew to love that Bible story and when I was 8 my mom played an old cassette that she had and this song was on it and I loved this song since then. My mom would sing it to me. It's been 10years since my mom passed and I listen to this song often and watch the movie of Joseph. This song will forever have a special place in my heart.
Sorry for your loss
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you made me cry
Hello how are you doing today..??
11 years later I am still here getting the best of this song. Mark yourself if you are here February 2020
That's the song and I danced with my mom on my wedding. Very powerful message.
February 2021
6/7/2021 just cos 💙💯
Anyone listening in 2024?
I here 🥰
Yes oo ❤
Yes❤
Me😮
Yed
Almost 10 years without seeing my mom, due to being in another country, she just sent me a picture of a scarf she's knitting for me out of a few old yarns she had at home. I was quickly reminded of this song so I had to come listen to it once again. -Oh my scarf of many colours that my momma is making for me. Made only from old yarns but I'll wear it so proudly.
My Mom loved this song with her entire being... I ove it because of her reaction to it every time. She's late now, and I'm all alone but I shed a tear every time I hear it.
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Be strong ❤
Me too😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I just cried all through this song. So beautiful.
RealItalianKitchen I feel the same and need advise from dolly right now
RealItalianKitchen I'm crying already
RealItalianKitchen btw I looked at your vids.....they make me hungry....too hungry...gahhh
Really.
Well Dolly Parton is rich now
"One is only poor only if they choose to be". This part is enough to energize you no matter what you are passing through at the moment.
Yes, I wept shamelessly too.
If there's a song I allow myself to cry to it's gotta be this.
Same!
Absolute same.
Same here
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww❤️
I said no money buys riches I could be in my coat of many colors my mama made for me
One is only poor only if they choose to be. Such a true quote right there
I think what she meant was being content.
Yeah its kinda sad that being poor in a money sense these days just dont work :/ if ya dont have the money to get around and have a good life
Life is kinda hell trust me im trying to sort everything out and its not fun
IT KEEP KINDA BREAKING ME UP
Julie W. MAY THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY JESUS CHRIST
BLESS, HEAL, DELIVER, ENCOURAGE, UPLIFT AND SAVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
IN HIS NAME,
AMEN AND AMEN!
Fckin quotes bro
what a great woman ♡ she's got all the money in the world, but she never forgets where she's from
Exactly I love Dolly .
lexalina132 actual
@@davidkuria3816 lk
My son birthday today 28 of may 1993
quick story that I feel like I need to share. I come form an under pillaged area in Kentucky. My family never really struggled financially, or not that I know of anyway. However, my mom loves sewing and used to make me things like coats. One of these was a really cute purple coat with little roses on it when I was in first or second grade. At the time, I'd not heard much if any Dolly Parton, maybe "9 to 5" but that would have been about it. One of my teachers, Miss S, asked me about that coat at recess one day and I told her my mom made it. She told me it reminded her of a song and sang this for me. I've only just rediscovered this song in college but wanted to write this out on the off hand chance she saw it, because that made my day then, and continues to years later whenever I'm having a hard time. So, Miss S, not that you remember that, I'm one of many kids form my area who went through your class with home made clothing, but thank you for lighting up hard times for years to come that you never knew you could when you sang this song for me.
2023 i am still crying listening to this master piece ❤❤
All time favorite country song. We all have a coat of many colors whether it be physical or spiritual.
yeah,this is tru!
that's absolutely true
warrior1975ify can u explain for me
Blue Kentucky girl
So lovely an so true my dear
Simplicity, Clarity, Relevance, Reality and Truth - no way to misconstrue the message. Poignant since the days of Noah, today and beyond. This gift stands on its own - no need for any comparison. Thank you Dolly! This isn't "Dolly gonna be a big star look what I can do and how wonderful I am" - this is Dolly thanking her mother, nakedly, unabashedly, for all the world to see, and telling her how much that patchwork coat of scraps meant to her. What a saintly thing to do.
It's 2023 and I'm still listening 🎧
Anyone there ?❣️
Yes , it's 2024 and m still listening 😊
This song always brings tears to my eyes. Our kids need love and patience more than material things.
Exactly , they need to acknowledge love above materials
Hello Jessica how are you doing today..??
I always cry whenever I hear this song. It reminds me of my mother. She was always a very nice person who would do anything to help her only son. She absolutely loves me with all of her heart. But yet when I was a bratty kid, I treated like her crap. I would say rude things about her, yell at her for no resson, and sometimes even make fun of her. But then one day she had to go to the emergency room after suffering a heart attack. Thankfully she lived and remains alive and well to this day. But that tragic experience many years ago is what woke me up. Seeing my mom helpless and looking like she was about to die really got to me. It taught me a valuable lesson about the importance of family and how I should never take my mother's love for granted. It showed me how short life really is. I had an epiphany the night that tragedy happened. I thought about how awful it would be if the final words I ever spoke to my beloved mother were something disrespectful. That night was a night that changed my life for the better. It allowed me to realize how important it is to respect the ones we love while we still have them because for all we know, they could be gone in a flash. This song about a mother's love brings back those memories of how much of a terrible son I once was. How could I have ever treated such a generous, loving, kindhearted, sweet person with such disrespect? I was a total monster back then and I feel so bad about it.
Same dude. Same. Kids are just stupid, but luckily we had the opportunity to realize our wrongs and mature before it was too late. Much love
I just had the same ephany
Ya found out in time n made things right♥️🤘
We thanks God for transforming you,let many turn away from rebellion
So glad you got a turning point mate all love❣️
I laid my father to rest yesterday & he wanted this song playing - it used to reduce him to tears as it reminded him of his mother & being a child at the end of the war with nothing. Such a beautiful song & something that makes you infinitely grateful later on in life when you start to see what your parents ever did for you in their own way
I am still listening to this wonderful song with many stories it has taught me over the years of 69 years of age of life.
In the Year of Our Lord,
July 29th. 2023, Saturday, at 5:00pm, on a wonderful afternoon.
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🎉🎉🎉
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God Bless You All!
One of the most beautiful songs ever made in human history!
+Marco T. Villegas Salas Mother Love. Just like the love a Daddy who is so busy working trying to put food on the table and isn't home enough. He works because he LOVES. It usually takes years for kids to understand that kind of love.
+Suzu M pure love. Greetings!
:)
won't to searh for stand by your man
Want to see karake with lyics
This is the first time I'm actually listening to her songs and gosh I wish I had done so very long ago. I absolutely fell in love with this song. My parents work so hard for everything I have ever had and now I pay all my own things and help them with groceries and bills. It feels so good to give back to them after all they have done for me.
Daniela awwwwwww u are so sweet and u are right to pay them in that way , God bless u dear one
Hello Daniela....
Hello Daniela how are you doing today..??
When I was around 6/7, I was a stuck up horrible posh little child. My mum and dad were both from rural areas but they worked there butts off for money for the best for there kids, I thought I had it all growing up - a big house, fancy cars and I lived in a very posh village. I used to slag the not so rich areas when I was young then...my life crashed and I ended up living in one of those areas and my mum and I had nothing at all, we lived on love and other peoples kindness. This song always makes me think about my mum giving me her all to make sure I was safe and I am now so much humbler and hope that nobody will ever think they way I thought, because I and my mum were a lot happier with no Money and strong relationships than when we were rich 💙 #stayhumble
So beautiful! To be honest life is about finding and giving love to everyone and everything, not running after money your whole life till you realize that you've wasted what can not be compensated; your life has no meaning and now it's too late to LIVE it..
Heather Janet tears to my eyes i was a self made millionaire by 23 years old . and thought I was better than everyone else I had the hottest car house wife fancy European vacations . my tounge against others was poison I was a hypocritical egotistical snob.then my wife cheated I became a drug user and a heavy gambler spent all the money and everyone saw my public fall of epic proportion .im.glad that it happened it was an experience that made me see money is nothing it's family friends children I have 2 beautiful son's I struggled to.give them a better life I too am now humble and gently and have love for.humanity ✌✌
Heather Janet tears to my eyes i was a self made millionaire by 23 years old . and thought I was better than everyone else I had the hottest car house wife fancy European vacations . my tounge against others was poison I was a hypocritical egotistical snob.then my wife cheated I became a drug user and a heavy gambler spent all the money and everyone saw my public fall of epic proportion .im.glad that it happened it was an experience that made me see money is nothing it's family friends children I have 2 beautiful son's I struggled to.give them a better life I too am now humble and gently and have love for.humanity ✌✌
Steve Adams that's so sweet ❤️ hope you are living a fab life now with your family 👨👦👦
Bless you Steve x
There's power in giving. Hardly would the giver of the box of rags know that the gift she gave those many decades ago would be cherished and become a significant object in this beautiful masterpiece by Dolly Parton!
Thanks Dolly Parton for sharing your story and giving hope to the world through it.
Thank dolly
This song is Christmas ! it's not about your worth based on what your Bank account is. it's the Love you show that our savior taught us. God is Love, we are a shining reflection by showing it also.
Lovely message. "We love because He first loved us" 1 John 4:19
And it is Christmas 2019 I'm listening to it. Sending you joy & blessings at Christmas. My husband & I haven't given each other a Christmas gifts you can unwrap this year. We've given each something far far better. Time spent together. No gift could be better as that which the lord himself gave us. The gift of love.
Dollys songs always put a smile on my face anyone else?
Yes I love her. My favorite white woman 😁
This one could make me cry.
They put a smile and a tear on my face 🙂💧
Smiling and crying😊
Every child should have to grow up listening to this at least once
Spent over an hour reading some of the comments, obviously not them all. I recognise a reoccuring theme which is "moved to tears" and not understanding why, I think that many of us were brought up and lived through difficult times, perhaps with limited income for our parents, this song (for me) reminds me of such times where we had very little money and material items, but we had an abundance of love and were seldom left to go without the essentials. My emmotions kick in when I think of my dear Mother bringing up the 4 of us on her own and doing her level best, we had no TV, play stations or food treats like chocolate or ice cream, but like I said, we had LOVE and plenty of it. Another observation from the comments - not a single negative can be found, how wonderful is that in this day and age?
This song reminds me of a sweater my mom stitches for me when i was a kid. I was so proud of wearing it with an image of an apple neatly hand crafted in the front which i like it so much. I remember proudly telling "my mom stitched it for me".
Thanks for reminding me of mother wonderful love.
Dolly, you have always made my life very sweet, listening to your gospel and country music. Though I may never get a chance to see you, just know I feel you in the music. You give me very much hope and happiness. May God surely bless you and the ones who sing along with you.
carlook such lovely words you seem to love her
I'm a 66 year old woman. Tears are flowing as I remember my own MAMA making me a vest blazer for me just the same way. Was treated the same way...but I was rich too instead of poor because the LOVE MAMA SEWED BY HAND IN EVERY STITCH. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Whoever is listening to this song in 2023,may God fight all the battles you do not tell anyone about. I love you❤
Who's with me 2019 and still feel the same way they felt the first time you listened....... Even being a man I have a soft heart ♥ and still fell like crying 😢 just like the first time I listened too
Aww ❤️
🙋
Just coz your a man doesn't mean you can't have a soft heart ♥
Aren't men permitted 2 av soft heart?
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I can't tell you what my mother, and others, have giving up for me, or made possible....God Bless!
I did my best, as did she
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When you grow up lacking so many things in life. You really get to feel and appreciate the song.too much love❤️here
Hello Kimberly. How are you doing?
@@michaelwatson5201 hi. I'm good
@@kimberlylorett5169. Nice to meet you here!
"The older I get, the truer it is, it's the people you love not the money and stuff that makes you rich" ~Alan Jackson.
Love is everything ❤
This song has such beautiful memories for me my mum always played this to me a s a child when my mum passed away last year we played this song on the way out at her funeral
I cryed so hard and wished I could have my mum sing it just one more time to me
Thank you mum for leaving me a beautiful song that will alway have me thinking of are time together
And thanks to dolly too 🌸
Same😢❤❤❤❤
First line of this song and I start crying... every time!
sorry my dia
Let's get together and cry while wearing a coat of many colors.
nebojsa1976
nebojsa1976. I feel the same
Shirley Celia
I know it's a touching song
Oh sweet mother...I love every Mother.... tears in my eyes ....thank u Dolly ❤️... God bless every Mother..
My father introduced this song to me in 2018 when I had a new law firm and making little money. He told me to concentrate on making impact and I'd never be poor. He said true wealth is not in the money we make. This gave me so much confidence to continue. My law firm is 6 to 7 years old and I continue to do better every year and I am financially stable.
That has got to be the biggest tribute to one's mother that ive ever seen. What a love song to a parent.
I am 31 years old...My Grandfather was a tailor .....I was 8.He made me a coat of many colors...And i was made fun f for it...So this song hits the spot!...I was so proud to have it and wear it!..But they could not understand...Thank you Dolly:)
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I was also raised by my grandparents and was very poor but with the love of God and country music I am doing the best today
My mom loves this song this is such a good song and little sparrow I get the song a girl in pain sees a sparrow that Flys so high but didn't fell no pain at all the as songs are good I agree with Dorothy Bennett
You did in ur arse
Yaa
I first heard this song 25years ago in china and tears came into my eyes right away.
i still remember
yong gary awesome my mom used to sing this to us n she sounds great memories that will last forever
Such a Goldie!!! She told the story in such a touching manner. Makes me even think of my own mother and what she did to give us all we wanted! Pure!
I dont know a soul who doesn't love Dolly❤
Its 2019 june 2nd ...i stil😿 listening...it make me cry😍
Who listen this song in 2019??
SuperLol2234 me and my mom was just saying
I love listening to it with my seven year old son who told me about it. His music teacher told him about the song.We listen to it every night before we go to bed and have also sent the link of the song to our dear ones. It makes us cry.good song.
Who is still listening in January of 2020?
Hi
This song will never age.Beautiful.Phil-Belfast.
I love this song
ME :) I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF THIS SONG
Listening with my daughter. Trying to teach some history and understanding of how life is different now.
Woken up today thinking of the past i shared with my mama played this song and i cried alot God bless my momma wherever she is❤
Same❤
My mom made all my clothes while I was growing up. I got picked on all the time about it cos we couldn't pay "store bought" clothes. My mom sewed very well and made clothes for a lot of our "neighbors". So this song hits home for me. I still make a lot of my own clothes. Something very satisfying when you say "I made it" and folks look surprised.
What a cool story. :-)
Thank you.
aww me2 my mum made some of my clothes cuz she liked sewing & knitting we weren't dirt poor tho... I took up making clothes in my 20's made both my wedding dresses (yes 2 marriages)... good hobby to have... :)
Mary Phillips Well, now it's a point of pride to have something handmade, isn't it?
QuirkyGirl10 yes it is. I enjoy making clothes that I want.
I grew up in an orphanage and would had loved a mother like this!
Elizabeth45 my aunt wrote this song about her life it got stolen but she died before she could find him but if I could of I bet u would of loved her
Thank you for thinking of me! God bless you and your family...
Ur welcome merry Christmas
Elizabeth45 she sounds like a perfect mother
Alyssa Sample I you telling us Dolly stole your auntie song. You must go and see a doctor, Miss Dolly wrote this song about her poor childhood
This song is really makes me recall my memory when I was you as being a poor child in our mountain village. It still feels in to my heart deeply. Very good song she has sung.
Hello Sainum how are you doing today..??
Many Happy Childhood Memories listening to Dolly Parton with my Auntie Helen such an inspiration XxxTracyXxx ❤️🌍🌈🎉🏴🌏🌈🎉❤️🥰🙏Amenxxx
Hello how are you doing?
as a young child this was my favorite song out of all of her songs this is the best one in my opinion and I will always love Dolly Pardon forever she is my hero
yes
+Lizzy “Liz” Senju Pardon??? Seriously? Its Parton not Pardon
+Anushka Narvekar no. it's pardon
Jaylene Harrington Its parton
+Anushka Narvekar oh yeah your right
Just the song leaving me in tears since I didn't enjoy mother's love when she is still alive
Every time I listen to this, I appreciate the kindness that God placed in my mothers heart. She is the best. Thanks Parton
I have always loved this song without understanding it, but today I read the lyrics and fell in love with every line. This song is evergreen and resonates with everyone who has known hardship and most of all love and affection.
😢😢😢😢😢😢 ❤
Amazing song my teacher told me about it... thanks master Muhammad for telling me am absolutely big fan of it ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇴🇲
Still listening Oct 2019,,who is with me
Not me heheeh😬
@@Takasugi_Kun ..but u replied that is you Re with me, hahaha
Me , very nice song
im with you
New Era movie am here
This song never grows old
right, cuz it's real..full of love and memories ♥
Dakota Rees
Right in dem feels
Ben nick ikr
When my dad introduced me to this song I fell In love with it instantly it's so inspirational❤❤
Its September 2020... Who's still loving this Tune
2024 I'm still here❤❤
I'm crying like a baby!!!! It is such a sad song, I glad Dolly sang this song it touches my soul every time I listen to the words and tunes!!!.
Its 2019 june 2nd ...i stil😿 listening...it make me cry😍
Makes me cry and smile at the same time
Who is listening in 2021? This song never gets old. Reminds me every time about my mom and how much she sacrificed to make me who I am today. Let’s appreciate our momma always ❤️❤️❤️
One of best songs ever. Listening to this song makes think of my youth spent without a mother to hug me..., love you Porton from Haiti.
Sending you love from out in the world, keep your head high 🤍🤍
Same😢
Wow wow wow! I had never heard that song before today. Those lyrics are absolutely beautiful! There are many Nashville stars, but Dolly truly is an artist.
This here is the greatest country song that inspired me on how to live when I was a little boy. God bless your kind heart Dolly......Nostalgia*
My mother so loved this song, 14years since she passed on and this song brings a lot of sad and happy memories.
I listened to this with my friend Michael and we both almost cried 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 God bless Dolly this song will never get old in my presence !!!!!!
OMG Speechless! TEARS..................this is me she is talking about!
Lovely song I lv it
Such a beautiful meaning behind this song :)
This is legitimately one of the greatest songs ever written.
Hello dear how are you doing today..??
OMG! This song is so meaningful and just struck a nerve in my heart! Wow! Very simple melody and accompaniment but the words are so powerful! Thank you for the music, Dolly Parton!
The song moves every heart even the rich once they faced some hardships in life and such song is from the Bottom of a true heart , it makes me shade Tears
True ❤️
TRULY ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS EVER!!!!!
I 60% agree
JK I 100000%agree
@@sike-ikhiangte8836 :)
Mothers love is the best..May God bless all mothers😍..2020
🙏💝💜♥️🇯🇲n in 2021 n beyond!
Growing up we were poor, but we were ritch we had love that worth more then money or anything in the world. We were always loved by mom and family. She worked her fingers down to the bone to support us, she worked 5 to 6 jobs to try to make it. I proud of my mother and I love her. This song is what she would always play.
wonder if people, especially young ones, know how cruel they can be and how emotionally thing will follow you all your life. thanks Dolly.
When i was a child i used to mock my sister for being heavily overweight. I didn't mean bad, I love my sister, but I was cruel for sure
Just know whatever you do with love is what makes you rich
A beautiful song for all time.
This song is my childhood memory of my mother... when I was real young and before the drugs got her. I only wish my brothers and sister had the same memories I have of when there actually was good times. they are only old enough to remember the bad but I remember when she was happy and singing along to this and dolly’s other greatest.. myself I listen to rock and heavy metal but Dolly Parton is the only artist that can bring to tears. 👊👍
I did not have a "coat of many colors" but I did have a skirt knitted by my mum. Being a poor immigrant family, mum would buy jumpers from the opportunity shops and I would help unravel the jumpers and roll into balls ready to be knitted into something different, like jumpers or skirts. as a six year old, I remember my favourite item mum made me was a skirt with braces over the shoulder. The skirt was black but had round rows of different colors. I loved this skirt and would wear different blouses with it. Years later when I first heard singer Dolly Parton’s song “Coat of Many Colors”, it strongly reminded me of that skirt.
I remember being about 8 years old riding the bus with my portable CD player listening to this and it made me thankful for what i got and not what I don't kids need music like this
love this song so much. always makes me feel better.
I love it too but it makes me sad
Kristen Seaver me too! 😊
Kristen Seaver
This song reminds me 10 year ago when I was a primary school kid and how life we lived then, true am proud as I was in my coat of many colors
I think this is one of the most heartfelt songs ever. Its about love and God and thankfulness of our blessings we have and sometimes we forget how lucky we truly are. And it is a true story written by Dolly who has wrote many songs.Best song ever!