Grandma she don't really get around good anymore
In fact to get her out of the house is really quite a chore
But everyday somebody seems to find the time to stop
To see if grandma needs something from where they go to shop

You see love helps those who cannot help themselves
It cares about those hearts that's been put up on a shelf
It'll introduce a lonely soul to a lonely someone else
Love helps those who cannot help themselves

Mr Johnson has a small farm down in southern Tennessee
But one year he took ill before the time to plant the seed
And no one knows which neighbor planted or just won't tell
But he had his best crop ever by the time that he got well

You see love helps those who cannot help themselves...

A little helpless baby child was born into this world
She didn't have a daddy and her mother was just a girl
But there came a young man willing to give both of them a home
The girl he married the child he cherished as though she was his own

Cause you see love helps those who cannot help themselves...
Yeah love helps those who cannot help themselves