TAMMY WYNETTE - THE STORY GOES.......

A few years ago, I wrote a dozen or so pieces based on the lives of famous people.  Here's one on Tammy Wynette who died on this day (6 April) at 55.

Tammy Wynette

Singer

The story goes ......

...... that when Tammy Wynette told her first husband 

she was taking the three kids and leaving him,

to drive their beat-up station wagon to Nashville, 

Euple Byrd (his real and comedy name) asked 

why she was going there. 

"To become a star." 

The chronic, scathing Byrd spat: "Dream on."

With a CV of church singing and harmonising, 

and a teardrop-sob in her voice, she made records, 

hits of love, loneliness, heartache, heartbreak, divorce,

of being a woman, standing by her man, her men.

When I was a child, I wanted to be a bus driver, 

a priest, an actor, maybe a writer when I grew up, 

but I was never damned with any tight-lipped sneering 

“Dream on” dripping with sarcasm. 

My mother and several others, but especially my mother, 

encouraged my dreams as mothers do,

even though I never drove a bus, wore a collar, trod the boards, 

dreams of writer’s fame long gone.

Years after splitting, Euple Byrd asked

the famous Tammy Wynette for an autograph. 

She wrote: 

“Dream on!”

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