HANDS YOU'RE HOLDING NOW, THE
(Marty Robbins)


Kitty Wells - 1958
Ernest Tubb - 1960
Skeeter Davis - 1961
Marty Robbins - 1962
Marion Worth - 1965
Melba Montgomery - 1965





The hands you're holding now, if you remember
Are the very hands that gave you your first rose
They're reaching out for one last dying ember
In the ashes of a love that's lost its glow

I can't forget the first time that I kissed you
It's the sweetest feeling I have ever known
But ev'ry dream they say must have an ending
And you leave the hands you're holding for so long

Did God mean I could keep you for a lifetime
Or did he mean for just a year or two
If it's meant that I should have to lose you
Then what's these hands you're holding gonna do

But if you don't want me, I won't try to keep you
But there's just the smallest chance you may be wrong
Until you're sure, I hope you'll never let go
Of the hands that you've been holding for so long






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2012)