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Happy birthday (I only missed it by half an hour) to Edgar Allen Poe and Dolly Parton

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Once upon a midnight weary, I had woken, blinking, bleary,

For my love had startled me awake from jumbled anxious dreams.

He tossed and turned beside me, and his voice had petrified me;

Softly cried he, but I heard it loud as any fearsome scream—

Just one word sat me upright, holding back a bottled scream—

When he called her name: Jolene

Oh!

The name I'd tried forgetting, from the night I was regretting;

It was my suggestion to go out and shake up the routine.

The bar was loud and smoky, thick with booze and karaoke,

Crowded with all kinds of folk; we got a beer and watched the scene;

Watched a woman take the mic and in a moment steal the scene—

Watched the room hush for Jolene

So distinctly I remember; she, her hair as red as embers,

Warm as firelight in December, with a lustrous auburn sheen—

As she danced, she seemed