Traveling Man (Dolly Parton song)
- Traveling Man (Dolly Parton song)
"For the Ricky Nelson song of the same name, see "Travelin' Man"."
Infobox Single
Name = Traveling Man
Artist = Dolly Parton
from Album = Bubbling Over
B-side = "I Remember"
Released = August 1973
Format = 7" single
Recorded = RCA Studio "B", Nashville; April 1973
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = RCA
Writer = Dolly Parton
Producer = Bob Ferguson
Last single = "My Tennessee Mountain Home"
(1973)
This single = "Traveling Man"
(1973)
Next single = "Jolene"
(1973)
"Traveling Man" was a song written and performed by Dolly Parton. In the song the narrator, a young girl, describes her affair with a traveling salesman, and how her mother forbade the relationship. She disregards her mother's orders, and frequently sneaks out to meet the traveling man, eventually making plans to run away with him. However, on the day they are to leave town together, she discovers that he has instead run away with her mother, whom he'd apparently also been seeing all along. (This is revealed in the final line of the last verse.) Parton used this device -- setting up a narrative, only to invert the story during the last verse -- in a number of her songs of this period ("To Daddy", "Chas", "Robert").
Parton initially recorded the song in 1971, and included it on her "Coat of Many Colors" album. She rerecorded it in 1973 for her "Bubbling Over" album. The 1973 recording was released as a single, reaching the top 20 on the U.S. country singles charts in October of that year.
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