"My Tennessee Mountain Home" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton. Using imagery from her rural childhood in Tennessee (holding hands on a porch swing, enjoying nature, walking home from church), the song served as the centerpiece of her 1973 concept album My Tennessee Mountain Home. It was released as a single in December 1972, and reached number 15 on the U.S. country singles chart.^[1]

Personnel

• Dolly Parton — vocals
• Jimmy Capps, Jimmy Colvard, Dave Kirby, Chip Young, Bobby Thompson — guitars
• Bobby Dyson — bass
• Jerry Carrigan — drums
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins — piano
• Pete Drake — steel guitar
• Don Warden — dobro
• Charlie McCoy — harmonica
• Johnny Gimble, Mark McGaha — fiddle
• Buck Trent — banjo
• Mary Hoephinger — harp
• June Page, Joe Babcock, Dolores Edgin, Hurshel Wiginton — background vocals^[2]

Other versions

The song has become one of Parton's best known compositions,^{[citation needed]} and was later covered by Maria Muldaur on her 1973 eponymous solo album, and by Elisabeth Andreassen on the 2005 album Short Stories.^[3] Dolly Parton herself re-recorded the song on her 1994 live album Heartsongs.

A cover version named "Ett bättre liv" (A Better Life) was recorded in Swedish by Lasse Stefanz and a children's choir. The song appears on the 1986 album Den lilla klockan, with lyrics by the pseudonym "Mackan".^[4]

Chart performance