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(CNN) --
You may have to wait 23 years to hear this new Dolly Parton song.
The iconic singer shared during an appearance on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" that seven years ago she recorded a top-secret song and buried it in a time capsule that would open in 2045.
"You have no idea what's upset me," Parton said.
"I really want to dig it up. It's a very good song."
The tune was written and recorded for the 2015 opening of his Dollywood DreamMore resort.
The plan is to keep the song in the time capsule until the resort's 30th anniversary, by which time Parton will be (fingers crossed) 99 years old.
He joked that he didn't "know whose damn idea it was."
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"They didn't expect me to be there at all and I probably won't be," Parton said.
"It might be in there, who knows. I figure it'll probably disintegrate and no one will ever hear it, that's what bothers me, if it rots in there before they open it."
Parton also recently spoke to ET Canada about another secret she's keeping: how she's remained happily married to her husband, Carl Dean, for 56 years.
He said it depends on them giving each other space, noting that with their busy schedule, "we're not in each other's faces all the time."
"He's not in the business, so we have different interests, but also the things we like to do together," she explains.
"So he was meant to be, I guess. He was the one I was meant to have and vice versa."
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