Chords for TAMMY WYNETTE - DEAR DAUGHTERS

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_ _ _ Three years ago, _ I was blessed with my first grandchild. _
[Ab] Three and a half months [Bbm] ago, I was blessed with [Ab] my second grandchild.
[Db] Now [Ab] I know why they're called grand.
[Bb] _ I [Eb] was on the road working when Sophia and [Db] Christina both were born.
[Ab] _ _ [Bbm] It seems I was always on the [Ab] road working _ and gone from home when my girls were growing up. _
[Bb] _ But somehow, they [Cm] always made it right for me.
_ [F] And years [Gm] ago, when all my girls were very, [Fm] very young,
_ [Bbm] I sat down [Bb] one day and wrote [Bbm] them a letter.
_ _ [Eb] _ [Cm] Now in the letter, I talk about my oldest [Fm] daughter being 16.
She is now 25. _
I talk [Cm] about my youngest daughter being [F] 6, and she is now soon to be [C] 16.
_ So [Bbm] it's been a long time since I wrote the [Bb] letter,
_ and it's [Bbm] amazing how fast they grow [Eb] up.
_ _ _ [Ab] Where are [Cm] you going, my [Bbm] little one, little [Eb] one?
_ [Bb]
Where [Cm] are you going, my baby, [Bbm]
my own?
[Ab] Turn around and you're [C] tiny.
[Db] Turn around and [Gb] you're grown. _
[Cm] Turn around and you're a young [F] one [Bbm] with [Eb] babes of your own.
[Ab] Turn around, [Cm] turn around, [Db] turn around,
and you're [Cm] a young [F] wife with babes of your [Ab]
own.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _
Dear daughters, _ [Fm] Gwen, you're my oldest.
You're [Bb] quite a lady.
You're my only [Ab] blue-eyed girl.
[Bb] And you turned 16 in April, [Gm] and you sure made a change in my [Eb] world.
_ I'm [A] sorry I missed the [Bb] big evening, your first date, [Gm] and I wasn't [Eb] around.
Save all the secret [F] things you did [Dm] and tell me when I get to [G] town.
And on your [Cm] graduation, I wanted pictures [Ebm] to look back on,
but then [Dm]
I wasn't there to take them.
[Cm] As usual, [F] I was gone.
_ You've had to grow [A] up much too [D] quick, [Gm] and you've done it on your own.
_ [Eb] You did it without Mama because [F] _ Mama wasn't home.
_ [G] _ _ [Cm] And Jackie, [Ebm] you're quite a lady [Bb] too, just [D] one year [G] younger than Gwen.
_ [Cm]
And there's [Eb] so much that I'm [F] missing by being [Bb] Mommy, only now and then.
[Eb] Now, I remember the day you cooked your [Bb] first meal.
You were [Eb] nine.
[Bb] You cooked biscuits and [D] ham, [G] _ and you called [Gm] to say how good it was
[F] because [Bb] I was out [Cm] of town.
_ [Bb] And at the party for [Gm] mothers and daughters, _ [G] well, [E] I know you [F] felt out of place.
_ [Bb] And even the pretty dress I bought [Ebm] couldn't fill that empty [Bb] space.
And the time when you got [Ebm] sick and the [Bb] doctors turned you down,
_ [C] they said they [Cm] couldn't treat [Eb] you with your Mama [Bb] out of town. _ _ _
And Tina, _ [Eb] you're such [Gm] a pretty girl with [Cm] big almond [F] eyes of brown.
[Bb] And they voted you homecoming queen [A] when I was out [D] of town.
[Gm] Now, I [Ab] know you were a beauty [Bb] because your sisters [Eb] dressed you right.
And you said [A] it didn't matter that [D]
I [Gm] was out of town that night.
_ [Bb] _ And the day [Bb] that you joined the cheerleading team, boy, [B] nothing could hold you down.
And you yelled hip, hip, hooray _ over the [Gb] phone because I was out [Bb] of town. _ _ _
And [Eb] Tamela Georgette Jones, you simply [Bb] take my breath [Eb] away,
_ born [Bb] just six [Eb] short years ago [Bb] and named for your Daddy and [Eb] me.
_ Going [Eb] to sleep on Meemaw's [Bb] arm, listening to her hum,
[Bb] _
drifting off to [F] fairyland while [Cm] sucking on Ethan.
[F]
Why, just yesterday you pulled a [B] tooth.
Boy, you sure are brave and strong.
_ _ I wish I could have been [Bb] there, _ but as usual, _ _ I was gone.
_ _ _ What _ [Eb] a difference you've made in [Gm] my life.
What [Ab] a difference you've made in my [A] life.
[Eb] You're my sun, _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Fm] _ baby.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ [C] And you _ light up my _ life.
And you give me [A] _ hope to [Dm] carry on.
[F] _ _ _ [G] _
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_ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _
[E] And it keeps [Am] the ride [D] _ _
[C] on smooth. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] And all of you _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [G] light up [G] _ my _ life.
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