Carl and I fell in love when I was 18 and he was 23, and like all great love stories, they never end,” she wrote about the ballad.

Dolly Parton, tragically, is entering a new phase of her life: She announced earlier this week that Carl Dean, her husband of nearly 60 years, died at 82 years old. Dean was there for the overwhelming majority of Parton’s life, and now she’s honoring Dean with a new song, “If You Hadn’t Been There.”