God only gave me two hands. The rest he gave to the Indians.

[Baker, John]

        I've found that it is not at all unusual for little-known older
songs to have no g-hits on their lyrics, and if the lines are from a
song, I think it's safe to say that it would have been a little-known
older song.

        I've also found that it's extremely easy to get lyrics slightly
wrong, making it difficult to search for them.


John Baker



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Subject: Re: God only gave me two hands. The rest he gave to the
Indians.

At 6:59 PM -0400 8/4/08, Andrea Morrow wrote:
>Maybe this is from an old song?
>
>God only gave me two hands
>The rest he gave to the Indians
>
>Both lines could be put into a 3/4 meter.  And "hands" could certainly
>be made to rhyme with "Indians."
>
>Andrea

Maybe, but as noted there are no g-hits for the couplet, which would be
somewhat unusual for song lyrics.  Maybe a really obscure, unpopular
song?

LH

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