Whitney Houston – Greatest Love Of All

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Whitney Houston
Release Year
1986
Suggested Capo
Fret 2

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Whitney Houston – Greatest Love Of All
Key: A Major BPM: ♩ = 65 Time: 4/4
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   I believe the children are our future,  teach them well and let them lead the way
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   Show them all the beauty they possess inside,          give them a
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 sense of pride to make it easi- er,  let the children's laugh-ter  remind us how we used to be

|A           Aaug                |A6               A7                |
   Everybody searching for a hero,  people need someone to look up to
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   I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs,       a lonely
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 place to be, and so I learned to depend on me

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   I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow
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   If I failed, if I succeed, at least I lived as I believed
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No matter what they take from me, they  can't take away my  digni- ty,  because the

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 great-est    love of all is happening to me,                  I found the
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 great-est    love of all inside of me

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The greatest love of all            is easy to    achieve,               learning to
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 love yourself, it is the greatest love of all

|A               Aaug                   |A6                    A7                   |
   I believe the children are our future,  teach them well and let them lead the way
|D                   Daug                 |D6   -  Daug   D          |
   Show them all the beauty they possess inside,          give them a
|C#m7     F#m7            |Bm7   -  E         E/D       |C#m7  F#m7  |Bm7            D/E       |
 sense of pride to make it easi- er,  let the children's laugh-ter  remind us how we used to be

|D           A/C#    |Bm7              D/E            |
   I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow
|D                 A/C#         |Bm7              D/E       |
   If I failed, if I succeed, at least I lived as I believed
  |D                A/C#              |24Bm7               |44D/E    -  -   D        |
No matter what they take from me, they  can't take away my  digni- ty,  because the

|C#m7  F#m7  |Bm7     -      E    E/D    |C#m7  F#m7  |Bm7   -   E     E/D    |
 great-est    love of all is happening to me,                  I found the
|C#m7  F#m7  |Bm7           D/E    |A   |
 great-est    love of all inside of me

            |F#m7    Bm7   |Em7   -    A    A/G   |F#m7  Bm7   |Em7   -  A   A/G    |
The greatest love of all            is easy to    achieve,               learning to
|F#m7     Bm7            |Em7      G/A    |D   -     E     E/D        |
 love yourself, it is the greatest love of all,  and if by chance that
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 special place          that you've been dreaming of,                     leads you to a
|C#m7   F#m7  |Bm7       D/E        |
 lonely place, find your strength in

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 love