Every child needs the loving guidance of at least one adult whose caring and attention can truly change that child's life. We all need a Nellie Tanner.
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Nellie Tanner
© 2005 Lyrics by Bobbie Gallup ASCAP/Music by Rachel Kerr
She wore simple cotton dresses
Her hair was streaked with gray
And I 'member Nellie Tanner
Like it was yesterday
She canned the sweetest peaches
The good Lord ever made
We'd talk for hours on her front porch
Sippin' our ice cold lemonade
CHORUS:
I was just a scrawny no-count
White trash country kid
That nobody ever cared about
Like that blessed woman did
She read stories from the Good Book
Tears shining in her eyes
She’d answer all my questions
And never criticize
She lived what she believed in
Until the day she died
The time Miss Nellie spent with me
Man I was the luckiest kid alive
BRIDGE:
She was just a share cropper's daughter
But he brought her up proper
To love Jesus and the land
She'd sing as she picked cotton
In that dry dusty delta bottom
And Miss Nellie was my first real friend
CHORUS:
I was just a scrawny no-count
White trash country kid
That nobody ever cared about
Like that blessed woman did
So don’t let nobody tell you
You can’t change the world
Miss Nellie, she done changed the life
Of this one little backwoods girl
CHORUS: repeat