for Darlene Knowing your rear from a hole in the ground According to Grandma was about what Really was up what goes down where your butt Is and mine when our butts are on the line Is what I mean the common sense between Yes never tougher ever were than her No nonsense for the Iron Grandmother And her honor was bound by what she found Then passed to me when she was history Her story when she passed through then past me Into the future now a mystery At least to me how she passed through it all Yes never tougher ever were than her No nonsense for the Iron Grandmother Tough but not bitter bighearted nor small And if not deep at least not cheap and good For the Iron Grandmother understood Making it up to the boy honor bound To last from the past as what was the best Yes never tougher ever were than her No nonsense for the Iron Grandmother Yes from no even when no one could know What got us through but never mind the rest Making it up to the boy even so Making it up through the boy all around And I am the boy today so I say Yes never tougher ever were than her No nonsense for the Iron Grandmother +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXII