United Kingdom, May 8 -- Dolly Parton admits her husband would "expect" her to keep going after his death.

The 79-year-old music icon's beloved spouse Carl Dean died two months ago, and she has opened up about dealing with her grief in the weeks after his passing.

She told E! News: "We were together 60 years - dated tow years, and then we married. I met him the first day I moved to Nashville when I was 18 years old.

"So, it's been a lifetime - it's a hard one. But we move on, we work, and he'd expect that of me, and I'd expect that of myself.

"I'll always love him, I do miss him though."

She released new song 'If You Hadn't Been There' just days after her husband's death, reflecting on how much he meant to her.

The track will be inc...