Chords for Tammy Wynette- INDUCTION TO HALL OF FAME

_ _ Tonight, four new members are being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Three legendary performers and a man who's made tremendous contributions to the industry behind the scenes.
And here's the first of this year's honorees.
_ _ [Ab] _ [A] I don't [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ want [A] to be crying.
_ _ _ _ [E] I've watched mommy [D] and daddy.
[A] And if [E] that's the way [A] it's done, I don't _ [D] _
_ want to be crying.
It makes me _ [A]
cry.
_ _ _ _ Cause [E] when she played house, my daddy said goodbye.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] Ladies and gentlemen, Pam Timmons.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _
Thank you.
[Bb] _ _ Tammy Wynette, [Eb] the first lady of country music, had an incredible 30 [Ab]-year career and sold more than 30 million [Eb] records.
She was one of [Ebm] the most adored [Ab] women in country music.
She was born on a Mississippi farm [Db] and spent her early days picking [Dm] cotton and [Cm] dreaming about singing country songs like her [Bbm] idols Hank Williams and Jim Reeves.
She married at [Bb] 17, but a few years [Bb] later found herself alone [Eb] with three baby girls.
So every weekend she [Ab] knocked on doors on Nashville's Music Row, trying to [Eb] get someone to hear her sing.
Finally, a [Db] producer and songwriter named Billy Sherrill heard something [Eb] very special in that voice.
And with his [Ab] help, she recorded the first of her many number [Eb] one hits.
_ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ Because you're good, girl's gonna go bad.
_ _ I'm gonna be the [G] sweetest thing you've [C] ever had.
And if you like to [F] paint it up, [Bb] _ _ [F] then you [Bb] ought to be glad.
[F] Cause you're good, [Bb] girl's gonna [F] go bad.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, Lori Morgan. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ Another marriage failed and Tammy did what she always did.
She put her personal life to music.
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Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E _ [Ab] becomes final _ [Db] today.
_ Me and little J-O-E _ [Eb] will be going [Ab]
away.
I _ [Db] love you, but this will be your H [Gb]-E-L [Ab] _
[Db]-L for me.
Oh, [Gb] I wish that we could stop this D-I-V [Ab]-O-R-C _ -E.
[Db] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
Then, Tammy met the great George Jones, a man she'd admired from a distance for many years.
They were married in 1969 and the public couldn't get enough of Tammy and George.
_ [Bb]
We're going [Gm] home.
_ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ We're going _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ home.
We're going home _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
to each [F] _ [Bb] other. _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ After Tammy and George broke up, she wrote a song with George Ritchie that [Gb] expressed not only her pain, but her determination to get over it. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'll [Db] need time to _ _ [B] _
get you off my [Gb] mind.
_ And I may [B] sometimes bother you, [Gb] try to be in touch with you, [Db] even ask too much of you from [Gb] time to time. _ _ _
_ _ _ But till [Db] _
then, _ _ [B] don't you know I'm going _ [Gb] _ _ _ to get [B]
used to using you.
Let [Gb] me keep on [Db] using you _ till I can make it [B] on my [Db] own.
_ _ [Gb] _ _
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_ _ _ [F] Tammy found the happiness she'd been searching for when [Bb] George Ritchie became her manager, protector, [F] and husband for the rest of her life.
[C] _ _ _ _ [F] _
Stand by [A] a man, _ [Bb] _
give him two arms to [F] cling to, and [D] something warm to come [G] to _ when [C] nights are cold and [F] lonely.
Stand by [A] a man _ [Bb] _
and show the world you [F] love him.
_ Keep [C] giving all the love [A] you can.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ Stand [C] by _ [F] a _ [Bb] man.
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[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ [Gb] Tammy Wynette passed away early this year, but that towering, one-of-a-kind [Db] voice will always be remembered,
because as she herself said many times, [Abm] I've lived every one of my songs.
_ [Db] _ Ladies and gentlemen, [Gb] we're very proud to announce that the [B] newest member of the Country Music Hall of Fame [Gb] is the great Tammy Wynette,
and to accept [Db] the award, here's George Ritchie.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [A] Good evening.
First, I must say I [F] so wish Tammy Ritchie and I to [Am] accept this award, [D] instead of me accepting [G] on her behalf.
As the First Lady of Country Music, her contributions to the [C] world's music are [G] immeasurable and _ unsurpassed.
On behalf of [D] myself and our six children, I thank the Country Music Association for their recognition [C] of this most remarkable woman.
And to you, sweetheart, I told you this [A] would be your year, and it is.
[Am] May you sleep peacefully until I see [B] you again.
Thank you, [Am] and God bless us all.
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dbm] _