Song: "Grandma's Hands"
Album: Decoration Day, Volume 2 (by Mason Jar Music & Friends)
Artist: Josh Garrels
[NOTE]
This song was written in the 1970s by Bill Withers. Mason Jar Music & Friends
covered it with Josh Garrels in 2013. Josh Garrels may have changed the lyrics of the
original song to some small extent (mainly dialectal changes).
[INTRO]
Am Am Am Am
[VERSE 1]
Am
Grandma's hands clapped in church on Sunday morning
Am E
Grandma's hands played the tambourine so well
Am
Grandma's hands used to issue out a warning
E D
She'd say, “Baby, don't you run so fast
E D
Might fall on a piece of glass
E D
Might be snake there in that grass”
Am Am
Grandma's hands
[VERSE 2]
Am
Grandma's hands sooth the local unwed mother
Am E
Grandma's hands used to ache sometime and swell
Am
Grandma's hands used to lift her face and tell her
E D
She'd say, “Baby, Grandma understands
E D
That you really loved that man,
E D
But put yourself in Jesus' hands”
Am Am
Grandma's Hands
[INSTRUMENTAL]
Am Am Am Am E D E D E D Am Am
[VERSE 3]
Am
Grandma's hands used to hand me piece of candy
Am E
Grandma's hands picked me up each time I fell
Am
Grandma's hands, boy, they sure did come in handy
E D
She said, “Mattie why'd you whip that boy
E D
What'd you want to spank him for?
E D
He dun' drop no apple core”
E D
But I don't have Grandma anymore
E D
If I get to heaven I'll look for
E D
If I get to heaven I'll look for
E D
If I get to heaven I'll look for
Am Am
Grandma's hands
[OUTRO]
Am Am Am Am
Um, mm, mm (fades)
03/15/17
David Codington