LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 03: Recording artist Dolly Parton performs onstage during the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/ACM2016/Getty Images for dcp)

Dolly Parton estimates that she has written close to three thousand songs in her life. But what was the first one?

She was interviewed by “Wired” and said, quote, “Well, the first song was actually before I started writing, before I could even write it down.  I was about five years old.

“I had a little cobb-doll that mama made me, and I named her Tiny Tasseltop, ’cause she had corn tassels for hair.

“So I wrote a little song, [it goes], ‘Little Tiny Tasseltop, I love you an awful lot . . . Hope you never go away, I want you to stay’ . . . Tada.”

Dolly also added that her first record was “Puppy Love“ when she was 10 years old.