Tammy was born on New Year's Day,
Her dad said to himself, "I hope I raise her well."
Trying every day to pass along his ways,
A dad can surely tell when he's asking God for help.

As time went by he tried his best,
To guide her heart to do the rest.
As years went on, his angel and his pride,
Continued what he'd taught until the day she died.

Who'd have known her courage for a friend,
Would take her from his life and see her's end?

CHORUS:
She wakes him every night, "Dad, what went wrong?
You know you taught me right, they didn't answer the call.
Dad, they let me down, it's got to change.
This thing with 911 can't stay the same,
So what's happened to me doesn't happen here again."

Daddy's little girl, an angel true,
She'd always been the one helping anyone.
Believe she'd be alive? Her parents do.
For as this has shown, there was no answer on the phone.

That night, so cold, for her warm heart, we are told,
Put her right between that gun and her friend and didn't run
For a hero can't be more than what Tammy did die for
But it didn't need to be this deadly tragedy.

All she was doing was what's right,
Tried to do good things with her life.

CHORUS:
She wakes him every night, "Dad, what went wrong?
You know you taught me right, they didn't answer the call.
Dad, they let me down, it's got to change.
This thing with 911 can't stay the same,
So what's happened to me doesn't happen here again."

Who'd have known her courage for a friend,
Would take her from his life and see her's end?

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