My Story Chords by Tenille Townes

[Bm] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ I feel so grateful that I got to grow up surrounded by a community [A] of hardworking people, rooted
[Bm] in the value of family [Dm] and looking out for each other.
_ [G] I grew up surrounded by that.
It was [D] like a no-brainer to just wake up and do what you love [Bm] to do and make it work. _
I mean, I will carry that with me wherever I go. _ _
[Dm] I _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ [B] [Em] started writing songs and [D] imagining what it would be like to get to be a storyteller and play.
I mean, it [A] started locally.
This community was an anchor of where I sang for the [B] first time.
[Dm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[Dm] And _ I just had this [Bm] feeling in my gut [Dm] that I needed to start pouring [G] everything I had
into music and [D] finding a way to [Em] make it [G] happen. _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] At the [D] time, I had been playing for a few schools in our community and I had just loved
watching the look on all those kids' faces as they felt connected in that moment of sharing
music [Bm] in a gym.
It was [D] time to put together this school tour called Play It Forward _ [Gm] and had to figure out
a [D] way to put this mission of [B] getting out to the kids in school.
I had typed out a sponsor package [D] and Ron was, of course, one of the first people that
I wanted to stop by and visit.
So I started locally and I went to my local gas station and asked for fuel sponsorship
and I went to my local grocery store and said, we're going to need food.
It just sort of dominated like that.
I [Em] started asking and people started [D] saying yes.
And it was like, [A] OK, this [D] is supposed to happen.
It was incredible.
I mean, we spent 32 weeks in a [Gm] motorhome driving all across Canada.
After [Bm] she did the tour, [D] she said, now I need to go do [G] the writing.
I [D] did the performing.
I know what it's like to be on the road.
I [A] have those under [D] my belt.
[Bm] I need to write.
[D] My dad drove me 45 hours from Grand Prairie, Alberta, all the way to Nashville.
I always dreamed to end [Em] up here.
I [Bm] knew it wasn't going to be a cakewalk and it wasn't going to be easy [D] showing up here,
but I felt the courage from the people who believed in me and loved me to step up and
give it my best and put everything I have into it.
_ Here [G] for her grand old Opry Day [D] gig. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] Tonight was [G] magical.
I'm not sure that I [Bm] quite have the words to describe what [C#m] it felt like to look out at
[Bm] everybody in this church of country music.
It [G] was such an honor to get to share that with everyone here [Bm] tonight and especially
with my [Em] community.
[Bm] 140 of them that packed into a 737 airplane, landed in Nashville, [C#] flooded [D] down this escalator
and just like [G] embraced me with the biggest amount of love I could have ever asked for.
[Bm] It means the world to get to share this with all of them.
[G] And truly, [Em] these people have been a [G] part of this adventure from the beginning.
[D] They have [Bm]
been there always.
[C] They just show up.
It's who they are and it's what they do.
I feel like I'm in the place that I need to be, you know, and that house that built me
and the community that built me is like a part of the story and that they're on this
adventure with me. _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ I hope that people feel a sense of belonging to this music and I hope they feel empowered
to be who they are.
Because I think in all of us showing up and walking out our most authentic story, we give
each other courage.
_ Music is just something that takes off the walls and the boundaries around us and kind
of just [F] makes us [C] all come together in the same living room. _ _ _ _ _