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Grandma Lou prays at night to the Lord Almighty God
Looks so young and innocent with her flowered nightie on
She's real sweet without her teeth, but most the time she's mean
Pinches pennies so damn hard, Lincoln wants to scream
She's eighty-five, can't wait to die, she thinks it might be fun
Oh my Grandma Lou, skip to my lou, skip to my lou, my darlin'

Grandma Lou learned in life there's some people you should never trust
Blacks and Jews and Sicilians, and women with big busts
She believes everything she reads in the gossip magazines
Speaks at length about her bowels, bunions, and healing cremes
She's eighty-five, outright denies she's an octogenarian
Oh my Grandma Lou, skip to my lou, skip to my lou, my darlin'

Grandma, Grandma, I'm skipping cross the floor to you
with my little girl smile and my little girl shoes
Grandma, Grandma, I'm driving up to take you out to the store
Did you get what you need, had you wanted more?
Grandma, Grandma, someday I'll hear them calling my name
Will I look like her, will we be the same?
Grandma, Grandma, Grandma Lou...

Grandma Lou don't like to rock, but she sure does love to roll
Bread dough, pie dough, sweet dough, sour dough, any dough, don't you know
She buys that canned milk for Pets and puts it in her tea
Hoards her food in the bathroom hall expecting WW III
She's eighty-five, apple of her eye is Jesus ( my dad, her son )
Oh my Grandma Lou, skip to my lou, skip to my lou, my darlin'

Grandma Lou has tucks and pleats and creases in her skin
and when the light hits her right you can see her skeleton
She does her hair with special care on Sunday afternoons
But most the time it sticks out funny like a coconut macaroon
She's eighty-five but she'll survive 'til she's a-hundred-and-one!
Oh my Grandma Lou, skip to my lou, skip to my lou, my darlin'
Skip to my lou, skip to my lou, my darlin'
Skip, skip, skip to my lou.....

vocal, guitar: Les Sampou
fiddle, mandolin: Matt Leavenworth
upright bass: Tim Archibald
percussion: Paul Caruso
background vocals: Dawna Hammers
giggle: Christian Caruso

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