This sorrowful tune is the flipside to "Here You Come Again," the hit title track to Dolly Parton's pop breakthrough album. In this one, a little girl who was abandoned by her mother and neglected by her drunken father shows up on someone's doorstep with her little dog, Andy, in tow. She and her furry friend are given a warm bed for the night but both of them die in their sleep. On a more positive note, they reunite in heaven so they can always be together.
While critics dismissed the tune for being too maudlin, the Tonight Show audience gave Dolly lots of love when she performed it during her debut appearance on January 19, 1977 - which also happened to be her 31st birthday.
Dolly admitted this was an odd little number for a pop album, but she wanted to include some of her own compositions on the record, which include tracks by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ("Here You Come Again"), Kenny Rogers ("Sweet Music Man"), John Sebastian ("Lovin' You"), and Bobby Goldsboro ("Cowgirl & The Dandy").
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