Dolly Parton's favorite "Heartstrings" episode nominated for Emmy

"These Old Bones" was the second episode of the first season of Heartstrings, released on November 22, 2019. In the 1940s, a determined young lawyer returns to her Smoky Mountain hometown to prove herself professionally when a mysterious mountain woman believed by some locals to be a fortune.. These old bones will tell your story These old bones will never lie These old bones will tell you surely What you can't see with your eye These old bones, I shake and rattle These old bones, I toss and roll And it's all in where they scatter Tells you what the future holds Oh, she lived up on the mountain Eleven miles or so from town With a one-eyed cat named Wink, A billy goat and a blue tick.

8. These Old Bones A mysterious mountain woman steps into the spotlight as a lawyer struggles to find her voice in this story of seeing, believing and everything between.. Parton tells the story of a clairvoyant old woman and her daughter in "These Old Bones". Parton was inspired by her mother to write this song. In 2018, Parton confirmed in an interview on the.