Country music legend Dolly Parton changed the words to her 1973 hit song “Jolene” to encourage people to get the covid-19 vaccine.

Parton received the vaccination in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday. She posted the new version of “Jolene,” on Instagram.

“Well, hey, it’s me, I am finally going to get my vaccine. I am so excited. I have been waiting awhile. I am old enough to get it and I’m smart enough to get it. So I am very happy that I am going to get my Moderna shot today. I wanted to tell everybody that you should get out there and do it too. I even changed one of my songs to fit the occasion.”

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“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, I’m begging of you please don’t hesitate. Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, because once you’re dead then that’s a bit too late.

I know I am trying to be funny now but I am dead serous about the vaccine. I think we all want to get back to normal, whatever that is and that would be a great shot in the arm wouldn’t it.”

Parton is 75. Last year, she donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville for coronavirus research.

She said on Instagram, “Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine.”

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