This file includes poems, quotes and page ideas about Hands, Fingers, and Thumbs. Also see Feet and Shoes, Father Poems and Pretty is as Pretty Does. Note: Songs lists with the words hands, fingers, thumbs are at the bottom of the page.

Hands

Page Toppers and Quotes

• All Join Hands
• Clap Your Hands
• Daddy's Hands
• Grandma's Hands
• Hand in Hand
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
• Hands of a Working Man
• Hands are for Holding
• A Helping Hand
• I Wanna Hold Your Hand
• Little Hands
• Mama's Hand
• A Man's Hands
• My Mother's Beautiful Hands
• Put Your Hand in Mine
• Put Your Hands Together
• These Hands, Small But Mighty
• Walking Hand in Hand
• With His Hand in Mine
• Your Hand in Mine

Quotes and Facts

• Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. (Audrey Hepburn)
• The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. (Fred Dehner)
• The hands that help are better than the lips that pray. (Robert Green Ingersoll)
• His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch. (Sophie Jordan)
• Hold a true friend with both hands. (African proverb)
• I have a hand, And you have another;
  Put them together and we have each other.
• In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
• The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Left-Handers Unite!

• One in four Apollo astronauts were left-handed--250% more than the normal level.
• Four of the five original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed.
• Everyone is born right-handed; only the greatest can overcome it!
• Everyone is left-handed until they commit their first sin!
• God created a few perfect people, the rest are right handed!
• I may be left-handed, but I'm always right!
• If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handed people are in their right minds.
• Left-handers do it right.
• Lefties have rights too!
• Lefty and proud of it!
• Of course there are more right-handers than left-handers; you need to create many rough drafts before the masterpiece.
• Proud to be a Southpaw.

Little Hands

(author unknown)

My little hands play patty-cake
They peek-a-boo and wave . . .
They catch me while I learn to walk
And splash me as I bathe . . .

My little hands reach up to you
For hugs before I sleep . . .
And fold together when I pray
The Lord my soul to keep . . .

My little hands are tiny now
But yours will serve to guide me . . .
And when I'm grown I'll still reach out
And know you're right beside me.

My Handprints

(author unknown)

Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am very small
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls.

But everyday I'm growing . . .
I'll be all grown-up someday,
And all the tiny fingerprints
Will surely fade away.

So here's a real hand print
Just so you can recall,
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small.

Tiny Hands

(author unknown)

Tiny hands grow so fast
Their awkward groping soon will clasp
A ball, a book, a sweetheart's hand
A diploma, briefcase, wedding band.

Tiny hands grow so strong
It doesn't take them very long
To snap a shirt, to paint, to draw
To labor hard, to drive a car.

Tiny hands grow to be
A person that is quite unique
A wonderful mix of so many things
With his own feelings, thoughts and dreams.

Tiny hands grow to rely
On his parents to bring him up just right
His parents pray that when he's grown
He'll say their job has been well done.

Tiny hands are ours to love
The sweetest gift from God above
A miracle that never is surpassed
How sad they grow up way to fast.

These Little Hands

(author unknown)

These little hands can wave hello
Or put smudges on the wall.
They can fold in prayer, throw a kiss,
Or reach up and say "So tall!"
They will clasp your hand for an autumn stroll,
Or shape a dinosaur from clay,
But most of all, they will stay with you
When I'm grown and far away.

My Hand Can Hold

(Modwena Sedgwick)

My hand can't hold the moonlight.
Can yours?
My hand can't hold a sunbeam.
It's gone
When I carry it indoors.

My hand can't hold the rushing wind
From the moors.
My hand can't hold night silence
So still.
But my hand can hold yours.

This is to remind you
When I have grown so tall
That once I was quite little
And my hands were very small.

another Hand Poem

(author unknown)

The promise of tomorrow
And the hope of dreams come true,
A reminder of the childhood
That is still a part of you.

The wonder of a miracle
From which this love began
There is so much found
In the touch of a child's hand.

(Put on a page with a family photo and handprint cut outs of mother, father and baby overlapped)

Handprint Page Ideas

• One of my customers saw a page my daughter did in which she drew around her daughter's hand and used the quote "children hold their mother's hand for a short time but their hearts forever"
  My customer copied her little girls hand on a copy machine. It was so cute that I took my grandchildren to Office Depot to copy their hands--I did mine first to be sure it didn't hurt. A color copier would be even better but we have no self-service color copiers around where I live. I have taken a lot of odd things to Office Depot to be copied and they have never said anything. But I don't know what they would think if I handed one of my granddaughters across the counter and asked them to copy her hand!
• Another thing I did was take close up photos of each of my granddaughters holding their mothers hand. We took some pieces of fabric that coordinated with the colors she is using in their albums and they put their hands on it. The photos are wonderful--they show very clearly that the little one is very small and delicate for her age, that the middle one bites her nails and that the oldest one inherited her grandfathers long fingers. If you have never done photos like that I highly recommend it. The photos I took for my ABC album focusing on their eyes, ears, etc. are so much fun to look at. My favorite was when I lined them up barefooted and took a photo of just their feet for the "T" page (thirty tiny T******** toes)
• I recently saw a page where someone had color copied the back of a child's hands. Then they cut them out and put them on a page in such a way that it looked like they were holding a large red heart with a poem written on it. I just tried an experiment using my scanner. It worked really great. Here are a couple of tips. Be sure the hand is laying lightly on the glass and not pressed down hard; put a piece of white paper or cloth on top of the hand to shield out some of the light; and be sure to clean the glass well after you get done.
• Mary W. has a customer who does a handprint page each year of her daughter with this poem:
  This is the hand
  You used to hold
  When I was only
  ____ years old.

Handprint Poems

(author unknown)

You wash my prints from walls and doors,
For I am not careful where I play.
But here is a print you'll want to keep.
It's made for you this Mother's Day.

Hands

(Grace Noll Crowell)

My hand is large and his is small,
And there is nothing on earth at all
More important than the task
That lies ahead of me, I ask
For wisdom, Lord, that I may lead
This child aright; his every need
Depends on me. Be Thou my guide
That I, in walking by his side,
May choose the right paths for his feet.
The days are swift, the years are fleet,
Mark me alert in deed and word
As we go forward, blessed Lord:
His precious clinging hand in mine,
With always, Lord, my hand in Thine.

(Carolyn Woodie suggests using this poem with a closeup picture of a father's hand holding a newborn's hand.)

What is beauty as it pertains to hands?

Perhaps this question will never be answered in a way to satisfy everybody. Probably there cannot be a standard of beauty for hands, because hands will always be judged by what they have done. It is so with the artist's hands. It is so with a mother's hands. Somebody once wrote with deep meaning of his mother's hands:

Such beautiful, beautiful hands!
They're neither white nor small;
And you, I know, would scarcely think
That they are fair at all.

I've looked on hands whose form and hue
A sculptor's dream might be;
Yet are those aged, wrinkled hands
More beautiful to me.

Beautiful Hands

(from Capper's Weekly 1982)

"Beautiful hand," the young man said as he pledged his love that spring.
He kissed each finger tenderly; on one, he placed a ring.
"Beautiful hands, my sweet young bride!" He laughed as he brushed the soil
that clung to her hands from the garden plot where she'd spent long hours of toil.

"Beautiful hands, my darling wife, like yours, my precious pearl,"
he whispered softly, holding close his new-born baby girl.
The years went by, the work was hard. The children grew and wed.
"I'm growing old, with ugly hands," his aging bride now said.

"Beautiful hands," he teased, as she kneaded their daily bread
and worked about the kitchen 'til time to go to bed.
Thru summer, fall and winter snow, she worked beside her man.
She milked and mowed, baked and cleaned. She always said, "I can."
And then one night in early spring an angel softly said,
"It's time we took you home, my dear." That morning she was dead.

"Beautiful hands, my beautiful bride," he said as he place a rose
in the fingers of those work-worn hands folded now in repose.
He kissed each gnarled knuckle and softly shed his tears
for his beautiful bride and her beautiful hands, and all those beautiful years.

Your Hand

(author unknown)

When my world falls down around me,
And the ground is sinking sand;
When peace can't be found on this earth,
I reach out for your hand.

Then when your hand wraps 'round my own,
A strength pours from your soul;
It brings me to a quiet calm,
Till once again I'm whole.

A peace beyond all reason,
A rest there in your touch;
Something in your quiet words,
My heart yearns for so much.

If I but rest my worries,
Upon your shoulder there;
The strength that pours forth from your soul,
Will wash away each care.

Like a cool, sweet taste of water,
For a tired and thirsty man;
My heart finds peace, my soul is calm,
When I reach out for your hand.

Fingers

Page Toppers

• The Evidence Speaks for Itself (sticky fingerprints)
• Five Little Fingers
• I've Got My Fingers Crossed
• My fingers may be small, but I can still wrap daddy around them
• Snap Your Fingers
• Ten Tiny Fingers and Ten Tiny Toes
• Tie a String Around Your Finger

Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake

(Vicki Kuyper)

Ten tiny little fingers that always want to play,
That never stop exploring the wonder of today.
Ten tiny little fingers that from the very start,
Will reach out to tomorrow, yet always hold your heart.

Fingerprints

(Wendy Lyn)

I know you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls.

But everyday I'm growing
I'll be all grown-up someday,
And all the smudgies that I did
Will surely fade away.

So here's another bunch of them
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small.

Fingerprints

(author unknown)

Sometimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small
And always get my fingerprints
On furniture and wall.

But here's a final fingerprint
Just so you will remember
Exactly how my fingers looked
In 1972...December.

from Pittypat and Tippytoe

(Eugene Field)

All day long they come and go...
Pittypat and Tippytoe;
Footprints up and down the hall,
Playthings scattered on the floor,
Finger-marks along the wall,
Tell-tale smudges on the door...
By these presents you shall know
Pittypat and Tippytoe.

Oh the thousand worrying things
Every day recurrent brings!
Hands to scrub and hair to brush,
Search for playthings gone amiss,

Many a wee complaint to hush,
Many a little bump to kiss;
Life seems one vain, fleeting show
To Pittypat and Tippytoe!

On the floor and down the hall,
Rudely smutched upon the wall,
There are proofs in every kind
Of the havoc they have wrought,
And upon my heart you'd find
Just such trade-marks, if you sought;
Oh, how glad I am 'tis so,
Pittypat and Tippytoe!

Thumbs

Page Toppers

• All Thumbs
• I'm Thumbody Special!
• Thumbody Loves Me
• Two Thumbs Up

Thumb-Sucker

(Shel Silverstein)

Oh, the thumb-sucker's thumb
May look wrinkled and wet
And withered and white as the snow,
But the taste of the a thumb
Is the sweetest taste yet
(As only we thumb-suckers know).

Songs about Thumbs

• Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico - Johnny Rodriguez (1973)
• Ridin' Thumb - It's a Beautiful Day (1973)
• Thumb and Shoes - Hal Willis (1965)
• Thumbin' a Ride - Jerry Reed and Chip Young (2000)
• Thumbs Up - Jimmy Capps and Chip Young (2000)
• Under My Thumb - The Rolling Stones (1966)

Songs about Hands

• All Join Hands - The Ides of March (1972)
• Angel Hands - Little Roy Wiggins (1957)

• By My Own Hand - Jack Sundrud (2005)

• Careless Hands - Jan Howard (1961)
• Clap Your Hands - The Dartells (1965)
• Clappin' and Shoutin' - Bobby Nunn (1951)
• Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap), The - Shirley Ellis (1965)
• Clinging to a Saving Hand - Connie Smith (1970)
• Come Give Me Your Hand - Jennifer Rush (1984)
• Come Take My Hand - Slim Whitman (1970)

• Daddy's Hands - Holly Dunn (1986)
• Delicate Hands - George Highfill (2007)
• Don't Bit the Hand That Feeds You - Kim Wilson (1994)
• Don't Fight the Hands That Need You - Hamilton, Frank, Dennison (1976)
• Don't Put Your Hands on Me - Lorene Mann (1967)

• Eatin' Out of Your Hand - Mitch Harrell (2000)
• Empty-Handed - Bucky Covington (2007)

• Forever We'll Walk Hand in Hand - Warner Mack (1965)

• Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands - Bill Anderson (1980)
• Give Me a Helping Hand - Bobby Marchan (1955)
• Give Me Your Hand - June Simon (2005)
• Grandma's Hands - Jeff Lorber (2007)

• Hand Don't Fit the Glove, The - Jay and the Jaywalkers (1967)
• Hand in Hand - Jerry Riopelle (1994)
• Hand in Hand with Love - Brian Collins (1973)
• Hand in My Pocket - Alanis Morissette (1995)
• Hand of Kindness - Richard Thompson (2006)
• Hand That Held the Hand, The - Lewis Pruitt (1961)
• Hand That Rocks the Cradle - Steve Wariner and Glen Campbell (1987)
• Hand to Hold on to - John Mellencamp (1982)
• Hand You're Holding Now, The - Skeeter Davis (1961)
• Hand-Holdin' Music - Dennis Day (1949)
• Hands - Jewel (1998)
• Hands Across the Table - Fats Domino (1962)
• Hands Can Say a Lot - Johnny Bush (1978)
• Hands Clean - Alanis Morissette (2002)
• He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - Raffi (1982)
• Hands of a Working Man - Ty Herndon (1999)
• Hard and Calloused Hands - Slim Dusty (1992)
• Healing Hands - Sonny Isaacs and Dolly Parton (2000)
• Heart, Hand and Teardrops - Vic Dana (1963)
• Heart in Hand - Brenda Lee (1962)
• Helping Hand - Amy Grant (1994)
• His Hands - Janis Ian (1993)
• Hold My Hand - Don Cornell (1954)
• Hold Out a Hand - Edwin McCain and Maia Sharp (2005)
• Holding on With Both Hands - Eddie Floyd (1968)

• I Wanna Hold Your Hand - The Boston Pops Orchestra (1971)
• I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles (1964)
• I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water - Stonewall Jackson (1965)
• I'll Hold Out My Hand - Randy Shaw (1969)
• In the Palm of Her Hand - George Hamilton IV (1977)
• It's in Your Hands - Diane Renay (1964)
• It's Out of My Hands - David Kersh (1998)

• Just a Hand to Hold - Gary Wright and Leah Weiss (2003)
• Just Hold My Hand - Johnny and Joni Mosby (1969)
• Just to Hold My Hand - Clyde McPhatter (1957)

• Keep Your Hands on the Wheel - Ram Jam (1977)
• Keep Your Hands Off Her - The Soul Blues Boys (1982)
• Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - Little Eva (1962)

• Left-Handed Woman - John Hartford (1967)
• Let Me Hold Your Hand - The Midnighters (1957)
• Let's Hold Hands - Jack Grayson (1979)
• Let's Shake Hands and Come Out Lovin' - Kenny O'Dell (1978)
• Little Hands - Jonathan Edwards (2000)
• Lonely Hands - Roy Hamilton (1960)
• Lovely Hula Hands - Alfred Apaka (1997)

• Mama's Hand - The Lynn Morris Band (1996)
• Man's Hands, A - Victor Lundberg (1967)
• My Mother's Beautiful Hands - Bradley Kincaid (1933)

• Old Calloused Hands - Hazel Dickens (1980)
• On Her Hand a Golden Ring - Phil Ochs (1976)
• On the Other Hand - Randy Travis (1986)
• Our Hearts Are Holding Hands - Loretta Lynn and Ernest Tubb (1965)
• Out of My Hands - Harley Allen (1996)

• Put Your Hand in Mine - Tracy Byrd (2000)
• Put Your Hand in the Hand - The Lewis Family (1971)
• Put Your Hands Together - The O'Jays (1974)

• Raise Your Hand - Eddie Floyd (1967)
• Reach Out Your Hand and Touch Somebody - Tammy Wynette (1972)
• Right Here in the Palm of My Hand - Garnet Mimms (1978)
• Right in the Palm of Your Hand - Mel McDaniel (1981)
• Right Left Hand, The - George Jones (1987)
• Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands - Lee Greenwood (1982)

• Shake a Hand - The Four Lovers (1957)
• Shake Hands and Come Out Crying - The Newbeats (1966)
• Shake Hands and Come Out Dancing - Dennis Edwards (1984)
• Shake Hands with a Loser - Don Winters (1961)
• She Held My Hand - Steven Delopoulos (2007)
• Slow Hand - Conway Twitty (1982)
• Southpaw Rag - Colin Hodgkinson (1999)
• Step By Step, Hand in Hand - The Monitors (1968)
• Stretch My Hands to You - Chris Kenner (1966)
• Stronger Hand to Hold, A - Diana Trask (1970)

• Take Hold of My Hand - Carl Dobkins, Jr. (1958)
• Take My Hand - Lee Mallory (2002)
• Take My Hand for a While - Buffy Sainte-Marie (1968)
• Take My True Love By the Hand - The Limeliters (1960)
• Take Your Hands Off My Heart - Ray Pillow (1965)
• There's Poison in Your Hand - Connie Hall (1960)
• These Gentle Hands - Julie Rogers (1966)
• These Hands - Hank Snow (1956)
• These Hands, Small But Mighty - Bobby 'Blue' Bland (1964)
• Third Finger, Left Hand - Martha and the Vandellas (1967)
• This Bottle in My Hand - David Allan Coe and George Jones (1985)
• Till I Felt Your Hands - Jason Sellers (1999)
• Touch a Hand, Make a Friend - The Oak Ridge Boys (1985)
• Touch of Her Hand, The - Don McLean (1989)
• Touch of Your Hand, The - Gordon Jenkins (1952)
• Touch the Hand - Conway Twitty (1975)

• Wait Til I Get My Hands on You - Wynn Stewart (1985)
• Walk Hand in Hand - Roy Hamilton (1966)
• Walk Hand in Hand with Me - Tony Martin (1956)
• When I Get My Hands on You - Diana Trask (1974)
• When I Hold the Hand of the One I Love - Mel Carter (1965)
• Who's Gonna Hold Your Hand? - Robin Luke (1959)
• Whole World Holding Hands, The - Freddie Hart (1970)
• With His Hand in Mine - Jean Shepard (1971)
• With Pen in Hand - The Hesitations (1968)
• With These Hands - Tom Jones (1965)
• Woman's Hands, A - Joe Tex (1967)

• You Held My Hand - Manix (2008)
• You Need Hands - Eydie Gorme (1958)
• Your Hand in Mine - The Sherrys (1962)
• Your Hands - Leslie Phillips (1996)
• You're Lily White Hands - Johnny Carver (1968)

Songs about Fingers

• Boney Fingers - Renee Armand and Hoyt Axton (1974)
• Burned Fingers - Wade Ray (1953)
• Butterfingers - Raymond Lefevre (1958)
• By the Circle on Your Finger - Mack White (1973)
• Does My Ring Burn Your Finger? - Lee Ann Womack (2000)
• Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger? - Charley Pride (1967)
• Fake Fingernails - David Fredrick Lochelt (2005)
• Finger Poppin' Time - The Clinch Mountain Boys (1960)
• Fingerprint - Eddie Dean (1955)
• Fingers and Toes - Buck Ryan and Smitty Irvin (1965)
• Fingertips - Stevie Wonder (1963)
• Five Little Fingers - Bill Anderson (1964)
• I Had My Fingers Crossed - Wayne Raney (1951)
• I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You - Andrews Sister (1949)
• I'm Gonna Tie a String Around Your Finger - Mervin Shiner (1949)
• I've Got My Fingers Crossed - Teresa Brewer (1961)
• Keep My Fingers Crossed - Dave Prater (1972)
• Keeping My Fingers Crossed - Shirley Collie (1961)
• Mark Round My Finger - Hawkshaw Hawkins (1953)
• Paintin' Her Fingernails - Mary Kay Place (1977)
• Put a Ring on My Finger - Jaye P. Morgan (1965)
• Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands - Lee Greenwood (1982)
• Ring on Your Finger - Glenn Sutton (1962)
• Shake and Fingerpop - Junior Walker and the All Stars (1965)
• Snap Your Fingers - Ronnie Milsap (1987)
• Take My Ring Off Your Finger - Jeremy Castle (1999)
• Ten Little Fingers - Carroll Baker (1973)
• Ten Long Fingers - Groovey Joe Poovey (1958)
• Third Finger, Left Hand - Martha and the Vandellas (1967)
• Tie a String Around My Finger - The Marvelettes (1963)
• Tip of My Fingers - Eddy Arnold (1966)
• Tips of My Fingers, The - Steve Wariner (1991)
• You Twisted My Heart Around Your Finger - Fields (1947)
• You've Got Me Wrapped Around Your Finger - Cotton (1947)