美国国家公共电台 NPR--Songs of Remembrance: Dolly Parton's 'Dumb Blonde' was her grandmother's favorite

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Songs of Remembrance: Dolly Parton's 'Dumb Blonde' was her grandmother's favorite

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Kristin Ziegler of Denver, Colo., remembers her grandmother Elfriede Liselotte Matza Froisland. She died of COVID-19 in 2020.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19. And we are recalling some through the music they loved. Kristin Ziegler of Denver, Colo., lost her grandmother in 2020.

KRISTIN ZIEGLER: My grandmother's name was Elfriede Liselotte Matza Froisland. She had this massive blonde hair. She would wear big costume jewelry², huge earrings³, leopard⁴ print, bright red. You couldn't miss Elfriede in a room.

(SOUNDBITE OF DOLLY PARTON SONG, "DUMB BLONDE")

ZIEGLER: My grandmother's favorite song was Dumb Blonde by Dolly Parton.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DUMB BLONDE")

DOLLY PARTON: (Singing) Just because I'm blonde, don't think I'm dumb 'cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool.

ZIEGLER: It's a song about resilience and humor. It's a song about feeling maybe a little bit scorned, perhaps by ex-husbands, perhaps by the world. And I think that she really found a lot of empowerment in that song.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DUMB BLONDE")

PARTON: (Singing) When you left, you thought I'd sit, and you thought I'd wait, and you thought I'd cry. You called me a dumb blonde.

ZIEGLER: She was from Augsburg, Germany. She was born six years before Hitler's rise to power. So she was present in Germany during Nazi⁵ Germany. I think that the horrors and the atrocities⁶ of World War II and of Nazi Germany left a terrible scar and imprint⁷ on her. But through that all, she had such a lust⁸ for life, such a zest⁹ for life. And that was her way of overcoming things.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DUMB BLONDE")

PARTON: (Singing) Ah, but somehow, I lived through it. And you know if there's one thing this blonde has learned, blondes have more fun.

ZIEGLER: Life gets hard. And there are absolutely huge things that serve as barriers to our enjoyment¹⁰ of life. But through it all, life is still really worth living, especially if you make that fun for yourself. And she did a great job of doing that for 93 years. And I hope to do the same.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DUMB BLONDE")

PARTON: (Singing) Just because I'm blonde, don't think I'm dumb 'cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool.

INSKEEP: Kristin Ziegler remembering her grandmother, Elfriede Liselotte Matza Froisland. She died of COVID in 2020 at the age of 93.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DUMB BLONDE")

PARTON: (Singing) When you left, you thought I'd sit, and you thought I'd wait...