Chords for LORETTA LYNN SURPRISES CHARLEY PRIDE

_ _ _ _ _ You know last year the living legend winner was Willie Nelson
Tonight Willie is on the road and that road happens to be Hawaii
Filling in for Willie is a lady who received this award in
1986 and she really is a living legend ladies and gentlemen miss [A] Loretta [Dbm] Lynn
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_ _ _ _ Welcome, I'm Paula
George _ _ _ Jones something else.
I mean, I love him _
There's been a lot of country music history on this stage tonight
George Randy Bill Anderson Johnny Paycheck and the new history makers like Lori Morgan Ricky Skaggs and the Alan Jackson
tonight the living legend award winner has been a big part of that history for over 30 years and
he's still selling records and still selling out them shows and
Here on this tape is a little bit of the history of the man himself
This year's living legend award my buddy and my friend Charlie Pratt _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ Charlie [Bb] Pratt was born in Sledge, Mississippi [C] on March the 18th 1938
[F] He was the fourth of 11 children born to Mac [Am] and [F] Tessie Pratt
_ [C] Mac tuned in to the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night [F] and turned Charlie Pratt on to country music
But [Bb] it was his mom Tessie who taught [C] him the things that stayed with him through [F] all his life
[Dm] I walked up to her and said mama.
I [D] said
If [Em] I had a million [A] dollars I could buy that
Car for you, and she stopped
[D] She [Em] stopped washing [D] and she said she _ _ [G] said that's right.
[D] She said you could buy that car
If you had a million [Bm] dollars
She said but there's a lot of people got a million [D] dollars would give a lot for what you got
She got five fingers on that [G] hand
Five fingers on your left hand you can see [A] you can run
She said [E] you're healthy now at that [A] time.
I was [Bm] small you know
But what I consider then she was [E] planting seeds so
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[N] There's a lot of people give all that million and a whole bunch of the millions [E] for all of that
Charlie began his career in pro baseball as a pitcher in the old Negro American League
And that's when he met [B] his wife to be Rosene
[B] [A] After being drafted he married [E] Rosene while still in the army
Then after his discharge they settled [B] in Montana so Charlie [A] could work construction and play baseball
[E] He also sang a little _
[Dbm] Country singer read [E] some vine heard him and encouraged him to go to Nashville [Gbm] and cut some [A] songs
Chet Atkins heard them and the next thing Charlie knew he was on [Gb] RCA record and [B] baseball was a thing [E] of the past
Post I got with the majors though
[Gm] Well really getting to the major was with the [Gb] California Indians in 1961 so I've [Ab] got long enough to get a couple copies
But I think we made the right [C] choice
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_ Charlie made some hits sold some [G] records and in
[C] 1969 [G] won the first of five straight music city news male vocalist awards and in
[Dbm] 1971 received the CMA's male [D] vocalist and [Bb] entertainer of the [G] year awards
The entertainer of the year
[Abm] Yeah, he's [Gm] do ladies [Ab] and gentlemen.
My buddy was Charlie cry
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_ _ [C] _ [Bm] Throughout his career Charlie pride [C] has sold a lot of records over 35 million albums
_ [G] He's also written a best-seller book
And [C] he's done it all his way.
I'm proud to be able to
[N] Be an American to be born in a [Db] land [N] like this that you can
Make it from the cotton fields of Mississippi to here to be talking to you
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[C] Charlie and Rosene have been [Bb] married for over 40 years [C] and has raised a beautiful family
[Dm] And if a man is judged by how many friends he has [Bb] Charlie is one of the richest man [Gm] in this world
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_ Thank you so much
That's beautiful.
Ladies and gentlemen.
I
Had no idea.
I I don't know what to say right now, but I'm happy and
I was
sitting down there and
Rosene said to me said
Probably gonna be George when they saw the legend of living legend of work.
I said no probably said Loretta's yet.
I don't I
Don't know what to say.
But thank you.
I love you and Loretta
Although thank you so much
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