Family Hands

Intro: D, G/B, D, G/B, A7
 D                                 
 Last Sunday we got in the car and 
   G
we drove
        A7                      
 To the town you were raised in, 
      D            G/B   A7
your boyhood home
 D                            G
 The trees were just turning, up on 
the ridge
     A7                        D  
 And this was your valley when you
             G/B    A7
 were a kid
 D                              
 You showed me the railroad that 
      G
your daddy worked on
       A7                        
 As we neared the old house where 
      D                G/B    A7
your granny lives on
 D                              
 She's nearing ninety years now, 
          G
with her daughters by her side
     A7                          
 Who tend the places in the heart 
           D               Bm7
where loneliness can hide



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 Bm7           A9          
 Raised by the women who are 
  G        A7       D
stronger than you know
 Bm7         A9              Em7 
 A patchwork quilt of memory only
                  A7
 women could have sewn
 D                                 
 The threads were stitched by 
         G
family hands, protected from the 
moth
 Em7                      G       
 By your mother... and her mother,
     A7              D        G/B
 the weavers of your cloth
      A7

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 (2nd verse, same chords)
 Your grandmother owned a gun in 
1932
 When times were bad just 
everywhere, you said she used it too
 And the life and times of everyone 
are traced inside their palms
 Her skin may be so weathered, but 
her grip is still so strong
 And I see your eyes belong to her 
and too your mama too
 A slice of Virginia sky, the 
clearest shade of blue

 Repeat Chorus

 (3rd verse, same chords)
 And a rich man you might never be, 
they'd love you just the same
 They've handed down so much to you 
besides your Christian name
 And the spoken word won't heal you 
like the laying on of hands
 Belonging to the ones who raised 
you to a man

 Repeat Chorus