Front porch sittin In an old rockin chair The sun is hot In the Texas sky Garden growin clothes Out on the line Dusty road When a car goes by Story tellin of days long ago And the only place She'd ever been Singin softly This world is not my home Memories take me back again Chorus: When I was young And Grandma wasn't old When she guided me As I watched life unfold Anything we didn't have We didn't really need to hold When I was young And Grandma wasn't old She'd throw a party And all of her friends Would gather around The quilting frames They'd always call out for me To come inside And give me nickels And dimes to sing It makes me happy That I can still go back My memories are so clear Of how it used to be When I never dreamed Of ever lookin back from here (Chorus) When I was young And Grandma wasn't old