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(June 29, 2019:) Several months ago there was a thing going around the internet, wouldn’t it be funny if the narrator of Dolly Parton’s famous song “Jolene” kept describing her and just got more and more terrifying? I loved the idea of recording a twisted cover, but figured someone already had -- but after asking around on Twitter and hearing a couple rough things that weren’t quite what I was looking for, Dan Abbott reached out about collaborating. We met for a few hours and compiled lyrics (Dan writing 3 new verses, the rest coming from Tumblr; I’ve done my best to credit those here) to describe an utterly terrifying scene, and he recorded guitar and vocals including some screaming and moaning that almost made me bust out laughing. I layered some more vocals, cello, cello banjo, field recording of crows in my neighborhood, to make the atmosphere appropriately chilling.
Definitely join Dan’s patreon! He made a really terrific concept-EP of his own alternate history WWI story and just posted the final track today.
www.patreon.com/professorplague/posts
Since it’s impossible to clear copyrights for a song like this, I’ll never officially release this -- but it’s subscriber-only here & patreonfor about a week, and then I’ll make it public on patreon until someone sues me to take it down. Share as you like.
lyrics
Reference:
animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/177698525912/butts-for-days-blad-the-inhaler
lyrics
[Original by Dolly Parton:]
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene
I’m begging of you please don’t take my man
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene
Please don’t take him just because you can
[Dan Abbott:]
The flock is screaming in the barn
The wind itself attempts to warn
The living of the coming of Jolene
The beasts that creep and swim and fly
Flee before the baleful eyes
Of that before which death must die Jolene
[blad-the-inhaler:]
He screams about you in his sleep,
And when he wakes does naught but weep
In terror of the one they call Jolene
(Original chorus)
[Dan Abbott:]
Sigils scratched into the earth
Do naught to slow or stay the birth
Into this world the end of mirth Jolene
[butts-for-days:]
Blackening the summer skies,
With burning wings and countless eyes,
We tremble at the thought of you, Jolene.
[New chorus by Erica Mulkey & Dan Abbott:]
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene
I offer up this gift to you, my man
Jolene, Jolene , Jolene, Jolene
Please take him ere your darkness ends this land
[prettyokayray:]
Your teeth are sharp, your mouth agape
Your claws rend flesh, there’s no escape
From judgement of the Eldritch One, Jolene
[animatedamerican I think? I'm too old to understand Tumblr:]
We cower here beneath your gaze
That sets the earth and sky ablaze
Have mercy at the end of days, Jolene
(New chorus)
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