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A Christmas Tradition of mineThis is a mixture of joy, sadness,delight,and the humor between Dolly and Roddy are a hoot! But what it comes down to, is a Family broken by the death of a wife and Mother who knew and felt Christmas is for love, family and God. This isn't a Santa movie. It's about giving to recieve her wings. Bring tissues and yes, you men will like it too. The music is classic Dolly,but the song Unlikely Angel is what sums up the feelings of this once broken now healing FamilySubmitted by sunni50 (Herriman, Utah)Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
Her faith wasn't the only thing, as it turns out. This week, with the release of her memoir, Unlikely Angel, Smith admits that she earned Nichols' confidence by offering him a dip into her stash of crystal methamphetamine. Nichols, Smith says in the book, didn't know what ice was, or how to take it. You don't have to smoke it, she recalls telling him. You can hot rail it or snort it. She cut it up for him herself, using a plastic supermarket card and a $20 bill. Smith didn't tell police investigators, or the media, about the meth until months later.
The song itself is concise, a heartfelt tribute from an “undeserving man.” But the lyric is so straightforward that it wears thin after the first listen, the ultimate payoff settling for nothing more than the description of the subject as defined by the title. And although it is indeed touching to identify a lover as an unlikely angel, the fact that this lacks both a unique observation on the given relationship and a memorable hook keeps us from coming back for more.
It’s especially disappointing that the song fails to deliver any insight into who this unlikely angel is, or into what she does that frees the singer “from the Devil’s hold” (other than “sacrificing all she can”). We know nothing about either of these people beyond the story’s very generic outlining of a bad boy who is n“saved=” by a physically small good-girl with a big heart.
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