The house stands too silent with weeds overgrown the windows are broken and bare But he holds all the mem'ries my childhood has known For my own sweet grandma lived there And when I was lonely to grandma I'd run and she'd hold me close for a while One flick of a kiss she could turn on the sun and dry all my tears with one smile My grandma's old rocker still stands in the hall of the house that's so shabby and old But in that humble house between those battered walls Was more happiness than it could hold Then when I grew older it came grandma's time to leave all the world and its care He needed a grandma and so he took mine to love all those children up there The porch now is saggy the paint is all gone it stands all alone without care But it holds all the mem'ries my childhood has known For my own sweet grandma lived there