Chords for TAMMY WYNETTE - 1991 LIVING LEGEND AWARD

[D] _ Well, this is the [G] Crooked Case Show.
By the way, when you [Em] are visiting the museum,
one place you certainly want to see is the store.
Because in there, if you're a country music fan,
they have [E] all kinds of music, all kinds of videos.
One series in particular to look for,
the Legend Series.
I have a DVD here of one of our favorites, Tammy Winnett, just like Brenda Lee.
She is in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
And she also had the distinction of being voted by the
fans, the 1991 Living [Am] Legend at the Music City News Country Awards.
Take a look.
[N] _ Tonight's Living Legend Award is about firsts.
25 years ago, your votes named her first
most promising female artist.
And you were so right.
She went on to become the first lady
of country music.
Let's look back on her career of 1991, your Living Legend, Miss Tammy Winnett. _
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_ [Ab] _ [Bbm] _ [Ab] _ Her childhood was spent as a Mississippi, Alabama [D] farm girl,
picking cotton on her grandfather's farm as a young child.
_ And Harold Reed, you know, [G] he's the goofy bass [Ab] singer with the Statler [D] Brothers.
[Gbm] He once [Bm] told me that if [Gm] Johnny Cash, [D] Charlie [A] Pride, and [G] myself had picked as much cotton as
we said we had, there'd be no [D] more left [Bm] to pick.
[Gm] _ [Gbm] But I think I [A] picked my share.
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Innocent of the music business and against all odds, she moved to Nashville,
a single parent who just knew she wanted to sing.
And she found people who wanted to hear.
35 number one hits followed her first [C] single. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ Soon, two Grammys and an impressive collection of awards [D] would be heard.
_ _ [E] She teamed with George Jones for popular duet recordings.
_ And as a gifted songwriter,
she became known for her emotional honesty in her music.
And it came along the time when I really believed in what I was writing. _
So this song is very special to me.
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[E] earned the admiration of established entertainers.
On your first award show, you named her [Fm] most promising.
[Eb] She has fulfilled that promise.
And [C] tonight becomes your [F] 1991 living [Cm] legend.
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_ [Db] _ [C] my pleasure [Dm] to present [C] you [F] with your first lady of country music,
[A] _ your 1991 [Bb] legend, Miss Tammy Wynette. _ _ _ _
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You know, I've been _ I've been lucky enough to have won
_ _ every award anybody could ever wish for.
And I never thought I'd ever win another.
_ And this feels like 1968 all over again.
And I just want to say thank you to _ _ you.
First of all, the fans, Billy, Cheryl, Alan Gallico, CBS Records.
I have been there for 25 years.
Thanks to George Jones for making some wonderful duets. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Thanks to my wonderful family for putting up with me all these years,
never being there when when they had a birthday party.
But _ most of all, I want to say _
thank you to my mother for falling in love with my father and _ bringing forth something with lungs
as loud as mine.
I'm not the best, but I am loud.
And I love you so much. _ _ _ _