Dolly Parton told Mojo magazine June 2008 that this is one of her favorite songs. She added: "When I wrote that - Lord, so many years ago, the mid-'60s, I guess - I knew a lot of young girls getting pregnant, and usually in the mountains people would pretty much turn you out: you were trash and a whore and your daddy and mama wouldn't let you come home, so you'd have to go to some home for unwed mothers or a relative would take you in. I'm touched by everything, and that used to bother me: how cruel and awful must that be, how lonely they must feel. That was great fodder for a song: it came to me as a story, like writing a movie."
This was relegated to an album track because RCA thought it was too controversial to get radio play as a single. Instead, "Daddy Come And Get Me" was the sole single from The Fairest Of Them All, Dolly's fifth studio album. It wasn't exactly light subject matter, either - it's about a distraught women who's put in a mental institution by her cheating husband.
There are towns called Dover in Delaware, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and in England's southeastern county of Kent. The song, however, is set in Dover, Tennessee.
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