Grandma's Hands

Grandma's hands clapped in church on Sunday morning

Grandma's hands played a tambourine so well

Grandma's hands used to issue out a warning

She'd say, "Baby sister, don't you run so fast

You might fall on a piece of glass

Might be snakes there in that grass"

Grandma's hands

Grandma's hands sooth the local unwed mother

Grandma's hands used to ache sometimes and swell

Grandma's hands used to lift her face and tell her

She said, "Baby, Grandma understands

That you really loved that man

Put yourself in Jesus' hand"

Grandma's hands

Grandma's hands used to hand me a piece of candy

Grandma's hands picked me up each time I fall

Grandma's hands, boy they really came in handy

She'd say, "Eva, don't you whip that child

What you wanna spank her for?

She didn't drop no apple core"

But I don't have my grannie anymore

If I get to heaven I'm gonna look for

Grandma's hands

Yes, I will

Ooh, grandma

Where are you, grandma?

Need you

Yeah

She said, "Oh, Eva, don't you whip that child

Now, what you wanna spank her for?

She didn't drop no apple core"

But I don't have my grannie anymore

If I get to heaven I'm gonna look for

Grandma's hands

Yeah, yeah, grandma

Don't you know I need you

Right now, grandma?

Yeah, grandma

Grandma (Grandma's hands)

We'd go to church on the Sunday morning

(You're not my father, you're not my mother)

(You're not my sister, you're not my brother)

We'd go to church on the Sunday morning

(Grandma's hands)

Where are you when I need you?

(You're not my father, you're not my mother)

Grandma

(You're not my sister, you're not my brother)

Grandma, oh

(Grandma's hands)

We remember

(You're not my father, you're not my mother)

(You're not my sister, you're not my brother)

(Grandma's hands)