Last Updated on 3 September 2026

The following list is a compilation of the 100 best songs by Dolly Parton.

I found 17 different ranked lists online of “best Dolly Parton songs” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation.  See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 17 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you may use to track which songs you've heard, followed by the ranked list.

Best Dolly Parton Songs - Listening ChecklistDownload
  1. Jolene
  2. I Will Always Love You
  3. Coat of Many Colors
  4. 9 to 5
  5. Here You Come Again
  6. Islands in the Stream
  7. Just Because I’m a Woman
  8. Two Doors Down
  9. The Bargain Store
  10. My Tennessee Mountain Home
  11. Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That
  12. Wildflowers
  13. Love Is Like a Butterfly
  14. Light of a Clear Blue Morning
  15. Down From Dover
  16. To Daddy
  17. Backwoods Barbie
  18. Little Sparrow
  19. Dumb Blonde
  20. The Seeker
  21. Eagle When She Flies
  22. Tennessee Homesick Blues
  23. Touch Your Woman
  24. Lonely Comin' Down
  25. Here I Am
  26. Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You)
  27. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
  28. Potential New Boyfriend
  29. Hard Candy Christmas
  30. My Blue Tears
  31. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
  32. Dagger Through the Heart
  33. The Bridge
  34. All I Can Do
  35. Sweet Summer Lovin'
  36. Joshua
  37. When Someone Wants to Leave
  38. Mountain Angel
  39. It's All Wrong, But It's All Right
  40. Sure Thing
  41. If You Hadn’t Been There
  42. The Pain of Loving You
  43. Baby I’m Burnin
  44. Shattered Image
  45. Yellow Roses
  46. But You Know I Love You
  47. The Grass Is Blue
  48. Poor Folks' Town
  49. It Must Be You
  50. Early Morning Breeze
  51. Traveling Man
  52. River of Happiness
  53. Heartbreaker
  54. Highlight of My Life
  55. Sugar Hill
  56. Applejack
  57. Your Ole Handy Man
  58. Randy
  59. Mule Skinner Blues
  60. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
  61. Stairway to Heaven
  62. Living on Memories of You
  63. You Can’t Make Old Friends
  64. Daddy
  65. She Never Met a Man (She Didn't Like)
  66. Just the Way I Am
  67. If I Lose My Mind
  68. Jesus and Gravity
  69. Busy Signal
  70. The Last Thing on My Mind
  71. The Way I See You
  72. A Better Place to Live
  73. The Man
  74. You’re the Only One
  75. He’s Alive
  76. Long As I Can See the Light
  77. The Mystery of the Mystery
  78. These Old Bones
  79. You Are
  80. Evening Shade
  81. Great Balls of Fire
  82. Romeo
  83. To Know Him Is to Love Him
  84. Those Memories of You
  85. Telling Me Lies
  86. Making Plans
  87. Not for Me
  88. Don’t Make Me Have to Come Down There
  89. Farther Along
  90. Hobo's Meditation
  91. I’ll Oilwells Love You
  92. Sing for the Common Man
  93. More Where That Came From
  94. My Dear Companion
  95. Rosewood Casket
  96. Appalachian Memories
  97. I Remember
  98. Shine
  99. Unlikely Angel
  100. Silver Dagger

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