Grandma's Hands

(album: Hello Like Before: The Songs Of Bill Withers - 2018)

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, "Tony don't you run so fast
Might fall on a piece of glass
Might be snakes there in that grass"
Grandma's hands

Oh, grandma's hands
Soothed a local unwed mother
Grandma's hands
Used to ache sometimes and swell
Grandma's hands
Used to lift her face and tell her
She'd say "Baby, Grandma understands
That you really love that man
Put yourself in Jesus hands"
Grandma's hands

Oh, no-no, grandma's hands
Used to hand me piece of candy, oh
Grandma's hands
Picked me up each time I fell
Oh, grandma's hands
But used to really came in handy
She'd say, "Matty don' you whip that boy
What you want to spank him for?
He didn' drop no apple core"
But I don't have Grandma anymore

And I get to heaven I'm goona look for
Grandma's hands