I love DOLLY PARTON! A lot of the people in this singing her songs should NOT have done it they sounded that terrible and horrible. The only ones who sounded good singing DOLLY's songs were CAM, KACEY MUSGRAVES, and MILEY CYRUS. The people who sang with these three sounded terrible and horrible. DOLLY sings her song that she wrote and sang first "I Will Always Love You" best. Somebody in YOUTUBE comments started a debate with me on this saying Whitney did. Whitney sang it okay but not as good as DOLLY. Whitney sang it for a movie soundtrack and she did not have the emotion or the feelings or any of that to go with it when she sang it. To Whitney it was just a cover song she did for a movie soundtrack. Dolly wrote this song about a real life experience of hers to help her and another deal with this real life experience. Dolly started on the Porter Wagoner Television Show. DOLLY and Porter were the best of friends, very close, nothing romantic but very close. When DOLLY was ready and wanted to leave to start and or continue a solo career Porter was not angry at all but he was extremely saddened and upset and broken hearted naturally and DOLLY knew this so the last thing she did was write her song " I Will Always Love You" for him and she sang it to Porter Wagoner and it was extremely emotional and painful and had all those different feels and everything in there when she sang it to him. If you were to ask DOLLY PARTON about this she will tell you the same true story and there is even an old video showing her singing this to him on his show. DOLLY said it was her way of saying goodbye but she would always love him.