(audience applauding)
You look incredible!
Well, thank you! I got all dressed up for you
Yes!
In my tie-dye
This is...
To represent my Hippie songs that I've been doing.
Sure, oh yeah you look amazing though.
Well, thank you!
It's been so gloomy here but immediately,
you've brought sunshine into our lives.
Well, I know you love green
'cause you're Irish. Yes.
So I thought I'd kinda use that too.
And how are you folks doing?
(audience cheering)
These people are happy now.
Good, Well I'm happy too!
I love working.
Now, do you like, I mean, this is a question,
I wanted to ask you,
you're from smokey mountains, Tennessee
and you're here in the city, New York City.
And a lot of people say they love New York
but are you comfortable here?
I mean, it's so different from the way you grew up.
Well, I am now.
But the first time I was ever here was,
I guess it was in the late sixties early seventies.
And I had just started making a naming country music.
So of course our country girls want to go to the city.
So my girlfriend, Judy Lana who we thought,
we'll just go to New York.
So we came up here
and we didn't have any money at that time.
I was just beginning to make it.
And so, we checked in a hotel
and we've been friends since we were little.
So we just got one room,
and of course I look cheaper then than I even do now,
(audience laughing)
But anyway, and Judy didn't look any better.
So we checked in this hotel,
and they thought we were hookers.
(audience laughing)
So we went out looking around in the city,
and we come back to our room,
and they had our luggage out in the hall,
and they had us locked out,
'cause they thought we were turning tricks up there.
So they diminishment threw your luggage outta the room?
They threw us out,
and then we were waiting to get,
we didn't have reservations back home.
So we had our stuff,
we asked if we could please at least leave it in the lobby.
So we were out waiting around until time to leave,
and we were walking down.
We didn't know where to go.
What's the name of that street?
People always ask me these questions,
(audience laughing)
You should know.
Yeah, well I used 42nd street.
That's where we wound up accidentally,
and this guy thought that we were on the make,
and we was just trying to get home.
We was just killing time.
We didn't know where we were.
So at that time,
I didn't that was back.
I was a country girl from the mountains,
I had a gun in my purse.
What? wait a minute.
I love how you just throw that in there.
Well, of course I had a gun.
Well we came to New York,
That was back then,
and you're not country
girl's not going to.
So you had a gun in your purse?
I had a gun in my purse,
and this guy wouldn't leave me alone,
'cause he was just sure I was playing hard to get,
that I was really after it,
or he definitely was after it.
So I didn't know how to get him off me.
So I just pulled my gun out,
and I just said if you touch me one more time,
I'm gonna shoot you.
And so he backed off.
Well actually he did laugh,
and my friend Judy started laughing because she
thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen,
and so then he thought it was a joke.
Anyway, it was a long story...
When people in New York pull a gun,
they don't have it doesn't usually end up in giggling.
I know, but Judy thought it was funny.
That it, he thought then it really was a joke,
'cause he thought we were running in pairs,
anyway it's a long story.
This is not the story I expected from you,
(audience laughing)
Even use that line in nine to five when I said,
I'll turn you from a rooster to a hen with one shot.
That was from you.
Well I think they based it on that story that I told,
So it doesn't matter,
but I love New York now I've been coming here
(audience laughing)
Here is the other thing I've noticed about you,
you've managed to had so much sort of surreal amount
of success in your life,
and you're not just way this way in front of the camera,
the times I've talked to you off camera,
you're just a very humble person,
Very nice real person.
How do you keep yourself so grounded,
despite the fact that you've had
this enormous amount of success?
Well, that's a very good question
and thank you for the thought,
I love what I do
and I'm very grateful that I've made it,
I don't know how many people really get to live
to see their dreams come true,
but I have a good family,
a good support system,
One good example was years ago
One of the things that I was most proud of,
they put a statue, a bronze statue
of me in the courthouse yard of our hometown,
and I was so proud of that,
and I was just bragging, bragging,
just because I was proud not being conceited,
but I went on and on about it a little too much.
And my dad said,
I said, dad, don't you think that's great?
He said, yes I do.
I am very, very proud of you,
he said, because I know the two year fans,
you may be some sort of an idol,
but to the pigeons,
you're just another outhouse.
(audience laughing)
That kinda keeps it grounded for you.
That's nice they let you know, okay, this is good.
But let's not get crazy.
Now you have had to struggle with something that,
for some reason the tabloids and this has been,
for a long time they seized on you,
they just love to write about you,
and it's, some of it's a by-product of your popularity,
and it's a lot of it,
they just wanna have a Dolly Parton story,
they write the craziest things about you.
They do Lord.
I've just had everything wrote about me,
they are always talking about my boobs.
I don't know why
(audience laughing)
But they say so,
they're not that big.
It's just that I'm little,
and they're big in comparison to that,
well they are...
That's not true.
(audience laughing)
I'm right here, I'm telling you.
What they usually say though,
they tell all these freak stories about it,
that they are so big,
that I refuse to have
them reducing and they are so big
that they're ruining my life,
and my health and they're breaking my back,
and they'll have things in the tablets where
it says I'm flat in my back,
I can't move and I can't get up and down
because of the boob.
It's funny cause they do write all these stories that
Dolly can't even get out of bed,
cause her breasts are so big.
They do seem like they'd be heavy though,
(audience laughing)
Well they're heavy,
that's why I do so many Led Zeppelin songs.
(audience laughing)
But to be honest, if they get too heavy
I got some bongo stand,
I just go
(audience clapping)