Chords for Shania Twain - The 25-Year Retrospective of The Woman In Me

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_ _ [G] _ _ That's as in tune as we're going to get it.
Okay.
Okay, let's start from the top.
[F] Who's bed have your boots bedding under?
And who's heart makes you seek your wonder?
[Dm] _ This time, did it feel like thunder, [G] _ baby?
[F] And who [G] did _ [N] _ you_
Joining us now is [Gm] none other than Shania Twain.
She's been staking [E] her claim not just at the Saloon, but in Nashville and across North America.
_ In the very beginning when I first went to Nashville, it was sort of a classic story
of, you know, I had my [Gbm] demo [Bm] cassettes [Em] of my [E] songwriting in my pocket and every chance
I got I was playing my own original music to the A&R at [Gbm] the label and [E] to producers.
They _ weren't accepted in the beginning [A] as being anything that _ they were [D] willing to [A] record,
that they were going [E] to allow me to record.
Of course, it was their budget they were paying.
I understood that I needed to pay [Bm] my dues.
I accepted [E] that and I know I needed to be [A] patient.
Well, and if I [Dm] hadn't been and I had been too cocky about it, I just would have been
_ replaced, you know, because it's very competitive in Nashville. _
_ So patience paid off.
[A] I did the best I could [Bm] with other [A] people's music, other people's writing, [D] but I [G] finally
got my chance, you know, to [Gb] prove myself with my own songs.
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] Okay, one more time.
And when [N] we go to that turnaround, give it a couple extra_
Thankfully, it worked and everybody was happy. _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ In Man of Mine, [Am] Shania Twain.
Who's been ever good to me? _
Fame!
Shania Twain.
In Man of [Em]
Mine.
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_ _ _ [N] _ I'd _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
like to start with the two people that [Bb] have worked _ harder than anyone to get me where
I am today _ and that are my parents.
They aren't with us anymore, but they [Abm] _ sacrificed the most to [Eb] get me where I am today. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ If _ _ _ _ _ I had to choose a favorite song off the Woman in Me album, it is God Bless the Child.
_ I wrote it, I was outside just walking out on a bush road and I heard a bear [Ab] crying in
the distance that had obviously either been shot and wounded or caught in a [Eb] trap.
_ I just really felt _ connected to [N] the helplessness of the bear, _ _ trapped, sad. _
Nobody could help this bear.
_ That was shortly after my parents [Cm] died and I just felt really like I [Ab] was that bear somehow,
_ you know, lost.
_ [F] Nobody could really help me through [Ab] that sorrow.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ Obviously it was a very, very difficult [Dbm] time.
_ But it was also [Ab] a turning point in my life that _ I _ think matured me, brought me up to
probably [Bb] where I should have been in the first place at that age.
There's hope, [Eb] hope, and faith, [Bb] and we must [Ebm] understand.
_ _ [Ab] As a songwriter, I always felt it was [Bb] very important to [C] show that contrast between _ representing
the independent, strong female [Bb] _ [Cm] and not _ abandoning my [F] own personal [C] _ femininity _ and whatever [Cm] that
feminine inner beauty is [C] aesthetically.
I was [Cm] being assertive with a sense [Bb] of humor and that is really just genuinely who I am. _
[Cm] Contrast to me is always very, very [F] important.
Initially I was releasing music in [C] the country genre solely.
[G] There was definite [C] pushback in how I presented myself [G] fashion-wise and image-wise.
[C] And I was surprised by that because I was used to just watching videos.
I mean, that could have been any genre.
So I didn't think it was really much to go brawless in a dress or [G]
to show my midriff.
[Cm] And so I did get a lot of pushback there. _ _
[F] _ [Eb] _ [Bb] But I did it anyway. _ _
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[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ think you're the first songwriter [Fm] I've ever heard that uses the words bad hair [Ab] day in a song. _
I'm certainly not the first woman.
My style icons at the time, I was in love with [Eb] Herbert and his work.
[Bb] But I did love Madonna's styling, the way [Ab] she was captured most in the [Eb] Herbert's work.
[Bb] I just really was influenced by how nudity and [Ab] skin and [Bb] femininity could be [Ab] so _ glamorous.
[Bb] There was lots of hair, [Fm] _ skin [Ab] and beauty lighting.
So I was [N] very interested in the way fashion was captured almost even more than the fashion [Dbm] itself.
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[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] The very first photos and videos were made by John and Bo Derek.
And they were done primarily on their ranch _ where they bred horses.
_ Lucky me.
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_ _ _ _ So John Derek directed the video.
I remember we had a big argument during the making of the video [Ab] because he had his own ideas and so did I.
And I was already, I was just threatening myself.
I didn't even really know anything about making videos.
But I had a vision about how I wanted it to look and how I wanted to present myself.
So we were nose [Gb] to nose at one [Db] point arguing about this.
[Eb] And I just said, you know, I was using bad language, but I [Ab] basically said, you're not the boss of me.
_ And he respected me from that moment on more than I expected.
And we had a wonderful friendship after that.
_ _ [Eb] That was actually a really [Ab] tense moment.
I thought he was going to leave and quit _ the video at that point.
But _ _ he taught [Db] me a lot of things.
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[Db] _ One of my favorite photos of all [Ab] time was the one that Bo Derek took.
Me in a [Eb] tub with bubbles.
_ [Ab] And a paint horse sticking his head through the window.
The horse was trained to grab the towel to say yes, [Gb] you know, to nod yes [Db] and no.
So of course any man of [Eb] mine better be proud of me and basically better [Ab] listen to [Db] me.
And this horse was like, yes.
[E] _ _ [Db] So funny. _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ So if you're just discovering my [F] music now, I [Gb] hope you [Db] feel moved emotionally and [Eb] enjoy the roller coaster ride.
Whether it is that it picks you up, [Bb] whether it [B] is that it makes you fall in love.
_ Whether it [Gb] is that it makes you feel empowered and _ confident [Db] in the way you present [C] yourself.
[Db] Comfortable in your own skin.
I want my music to [Ebm] have that effect on you.
And I hope that [B] you feel that you are perfect just the way you are.
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