Last week, we reported that Dolly Parton’s husband Carl Dean passed away on Monday, March 3. He was 82 years-old at the time of his death, and he had been married to Parton for nearly 60 years. In his honor,

"I wouldn't be here/ If you hadn't been there," the country icon sings on the song dedicated to her partner of 60 years, who died this week at age 82.

Like all great love stories, they never end,” Parton wrote on Instagram before releasing the ballad “If You Hadn’t Been There.”