Date: 4/12/99; 3:39:07 PM
From: Adam Tilford <telejon14@yahoo.com>
Subject: Montgomery/Gentry  "Self Made Man"

Artist-Montgomery/Gentry
Song-"Self Made Man"
Album-Tattoos & Scars
Label-Columbia Records
Songwriters-Jay Knowles,Wynn Varble

Intro G C G C
G
I could say it's all her fault
G
She never had any patience at all
      C
I'm a complicated guy
                           G
And she didn't try to understand

G
I could claim i had nothing to do
G
With the fact i'm lonesome and blue
         C                  D
But that wouldn't be true
D               G
I'm a self made man

(chorus)

     C                G
Yeah i'm the one that fooled around
    C               G
And let the one who loved me down
C               G                 Dsus D
She had more of me than she could stand
C             G
I blamed everyone but me
    C                 G
But now that it's too late i see
  C              G              D
Nobody helped me get to where i am
                G              C
I'm a self made man


G
I could blame it on the way i was raised
G
Or i could say i was just to afraid
   C                                G
To lay my heart in somebody else's hands

G
I could always make one more excuse
G
But in the end what's the use
  C                     D
I might as well face
D                G                
I'm a self made man

(repeat chorus)

Dsus D  C            G  
woooooo i blamed everyone but me
    C               G  
But now that its to late i see
  C               G             D
Nobody helped me get to where i am
                G       C
I'm a self made man
          G         C
Self made man
          G
Self made man
(spoken)     C                     G
Ahhh i cant blame anybody but me