1171 – Bill Withers – Grandma's hands (1971)

Escrita por Bill Withers, foi gravada e lançada em maio de 1971 no disco Just as I am e fala sobre a avó dele. O produtor foi Booker T. Jones. Quando lançada em compacto, que tinha Sweet Wanomi como Lado B, chegou ao número 42 dos charts pop americanos. Chegou também ao número 37 dos charts canadenses.

Teve Al Jackson Jr. Na bateria e Duck Dunn no baixo, na gravação.

Foi regravada por Al Jarreau, Gladys Knight, Barbra Streisend, Simply Red e Everlast, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

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

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

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

If I get to Heaven I'll look for
Grandma's hands

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