Midway through his 1990 hit "The Dance" in Minneapolis Friday, Nov. 7, Garth Brooks noticed a sign.
Terry Shaw, a fan and cancer patient, was holding a sign for the country star to see: "Chemo this morning, Garth tonight, enjoying 'The Dance.'"
Brooks wasn't going to let it end there.
Shaw, as KARE-11 points out, was ushered to the front of the stage where her sign was picked up on the Target Center projectors. Brooks then walked over to the fan, who has been battling Stage 3 breast cancer since June, and serenaded her sweetly. The singer then gave Shaw his guitar and kissed her on the head.
Before the end of the song, Brooks commented on the sign in a truly powerful moment — see below.
"God just stuck his hand out and wrote this," he said about the sign. "You have all my strength, you have everybody's strength in here and you go kick cancer's ass!"
Shaw was originally just hoping to get her poster signed, but instead she received a memory and guitar that will help her through her battle with cancer.
"To give away something like that is just remarkable, and now if I ever have a bad day, I can always go look at his guitar and get inspiration," she said.
As Taste of Country noted, Brooks lost his mother and his sister to the disease.
Earlier in the day, the singer appeared on Good Morning America and performed a touching rendition of his new song "Mom" from his latest effort Man Against Machine.
"It's a beautiful song; I wish I'd written it," he said. "'The Dance' is my favorite Garth Brooks song ever, but if there was ever a song that could ever rival it — just because of the context of it ... You know I'm a mama's boy."
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