Simply Red

Grandma's Hands Clapped in Church on Sunday Morning
Grandma's Hands Played the Tambourine so Well!
Grandma's Hands Used to Issue out a Warning...
Michael 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 the Local Unwed Mother
Grandma's Hands Used to Ache Sometimes and Swell
Grandma's Hands Used to lift her Free And tell Her
Baby Grandma Understands
That You really Loved that Man
Put Yourself in the Spirit's Hands
Grandma's Hands Doh!
Oh yea Oh yea
Do Do Do Do Do
Oh yea
Oh yea Mmmm MMmmm Oh yea Mmmm MMmmm Yea
Grandma's Hands Used to Hand me a Piece of Candy
Grandma's Hands Picked me Up each time I Fell
Grandma's Hands, Boy, they Really came in Handy!
Nattie, Don't you Whip that Boy!
What d' 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!
Oh Yea, I'll be looking for her
MMmmm MMmmm
Do Do Do Do Do
MMmmmm Hea!
If I ever get Up There!
Ah, If I go Down There!
I'll be wandering around
I'll be lookin' for her
I'll be lookin' Up and North and South and West and East
And everywhere I go
Will be Grandma
Those Eyes! Those Hands! Those Smiles! Those Warm little loves I get from her, Oh!
Do Do Do Do Do
HHEeeeeee! Well I'll be singin' all about a....
Ha Hhooooommmm

Simply Red is a British soul and pop band. The first incarnation of the band was a punk group called The Frantic Elevators, whose seven-year run produced limited releases on local labels and ended in 1984 upon critical acclaim for their final single, “Holding Back the Years”.

By early 1985, Mick Hucknall and manager Elliot Rashman had assembled a band of local session musicians and begun to attract record company attention. The group adopted the name “Red” (after Hucknall’s nickname, denoting his hair colour) but then Mick decided it would sound better with the addition of the word ‘Simply.’

Since the mid 1980s, the band has sold more than 50 million albums.

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Montreux EP

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Montreux EP (1992)

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