Nickel Creek – The Hand Song (Guitar)

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INTRO: G C Em D G C Em D G C Em D VERSE 1:
    B                   C
The boy only wanted to give Mother something

    G                      D
And all of her roses had bloomed.

B                     C
Looking at her as he came rushing in with them

G                        D
Knowing her roses were doomed,

Am            B               Em
All she could see were some thorns buried deep

    Am              B            Em         D
And tears that were cried as she tended his wounds
CHORUS:
        G           C    Em  D
And she knew it was love

       G             C          Em  D
It was one she could understand

       G           C
He was showing his love,

    Em            D         G  C  Em  D
And that's how he hurt his hands.
VERSE 2:
B                        C
He still remembers that night as child

G               D
On his mother's knee

B                            C
She held him close and she opened her bible

    G                   D
And quietly started to read,

    Am       B          Em
And seeing a picture of Jesus he cried out,

Am           B        Em              D
"Momma, he's got some scars just like me."
CHORUS:
       G           C    Em  D
And he knew it was love

       G            C          Em  D
It was one he could understand

       G           C
He was showing his love,

    Em            D         G   C  Em  D
And that's how he hurt his hands.
VERSE 3:
B                              C
Now the boy's grown and moved out on his own

 G                     D
When Uncle Sam comes along.

  B                         C
A foreign affair, but our young men were there

    G                     D
And luck had his number drawn.

   Am          B              Em
It wasn't that long till our hero was gone

   Am        B                Em             D
He gave to a friend what he learned from the cross.
CHORUS:
         G           C    Em  D
And they knew it was love

       G              C          Em  D
It was one they could understand

       G           C
He was showing his love,

    Em             D         G   C  Em  D
And that's how he hurt his hands.