Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiine, Im begging of you please go in my arm, he sang, while playing guitar and describing the virus as beyond compare with spiky bursts of auburn hair that Covid, that corona emerald green.
The lyrics were written by the linguist Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language.
She said she wrote the lyrics in part because the song Jolene, about one woman begging another not to steal her man, has the same desperate feel that the pandemic has instilled in so many people.
Now Ms. McCulloch is hoping Ms. Parton might release her own vaccine song, she said.
If Dolly Parton wants to record a vaccine P.S.A. to the tune of Jolene, she said, I think everyone would be very pleased.read more
Dolly Parton: Singer, Songwriter, Pandemic Savior?
