Vince Gill       "Thats Who I Am"

Written by Chris Weber

Only available on "Everybody Has A Story", the new CD for the benefit of Monroe 
Carel Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWbOQKiqYok

(intro)
2x
D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)(verse)
D (xx0232@1)               G (320003@1)            DGrew (xx0232@1)up in LA and I like to play baseball
    D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)                 AI'm (x02220@1)five years old and I don't have hardly anything at all
            Bm (x24432@1)                 A (x02220@1)
Except this little blue hat that goes with the bat
        G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)    AThat (x02220@1)my Momma gave me the very last time I saw her
  D (xx0232@1)                    G (320003@1)             DI (xx0232@1)live with a family and they don't even know I'm there
      D (xx0232@1)               G (320003@1)                  A (x02220@1)I can go for a walk ten city blocks and they don't even care
       Bm (x24432@1)                  A (x02220@1)I have imaginary friends who I pretend 
      G (320003@1)                     DWould (xx0232@1)play baseball 'till the very end
G (320003@1)                 AOf (x02220@1)the day, aww but thats ok

(chorus)
            G (320003@1)Thats who I am
            DThats (xx0232@1)all I have
              A (x02220@1)Thats where I stand
                    BmAnd (x24432@1)thats where I'm at
                 G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)Well thats all I have
            DThats (xx0232@1)who I am

(verse)
D (xx0232@1)                 G (320003@1)                DMoved (xx0232@1)in with a new family that had an older son
   D (xx0232@1)                           GHe (320003@1)became my big brother we were best friends with each other
   AWe (x02220@1)played ball till the setting sun
        BmThen (x24432@1)he had to go to war
      AAnd (x02220@1)I didn't know what for
  G (320003@1)I asked him not to go
      DAs (xx0232@1)he walked out the door
   G (320003@1)             AHe (x02220@1)said to me oh I have to leave

(chorus)
            G (320003@1)Thats who I am
            DThats (xx0232@1)all I have
              A (x02220@1)Thats where I stand
                    BmAnd (x24432@1)thats where I'm at
                 G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)Well thats all I have
            DThats (xx0232@1)who I am

(instrumental)
D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)D,  D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)A,  Bm (x24432@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)A (x02220@1)(verse)
  D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)          DA (xx0232@1)year went by and I tried not to think of him at all
                       GBut (320003@1)on Christmas Eve I started to believe
            AThere (x02220@1)was a knock at my bedroom door
            Bm (x24432@1)           AHe (x02220@1)said I'm not going back to Iraq
      G (320003@1)                      DAnd (xx0232@1)I want you to know exactly where I'm at
      G (320003@1)                  A (x02220@1)Cause theres no other like me big brother



(chorus)
            G (320003@1)Thats who I am
            DThats (xx0232@1)all I have
              A (x02220@1)Thats where I stand
                    BmAnd (x24432@1)thats where I'm at
                G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)And thats all I have
            BmThats (x24432@1)who I am
            G (320003@1)  AThats (x02220@1)all I have
            D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)D,   DThats (xx0232@1)who I am