She'd given everything she could give  Twenty years of kindness made her sad  Kindness never made enough to live  So she sold the very last thing that she had    As she held her hand out to him  As he drove around the block  He mouthed through the window 'just hold on'  'I've held on many years now and I haven't found a lot'  Hold on, hold on to what?    Chorus  So hoid on to what? Hold on to what?  Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got  I'll need a pair of stilts if I'm to ever reach the top  So hold on! Hold on to what?    Many years of service with a smile  Up shit creek and down the Rhine  Gibraltar Rock and now the Emerald Isle  He'd shined every shoe that he could shine    And as he lay in his own blood  Screaming 'I ve been shot'  He heard the Major whisper 'just hold on'  'I've held on all these years now, now what medal have I got?'  Hold on, hold on to what?    Chorus  So hold on to what? Hold on to what?  Holding on is harder when it's something you've not got  I'll need a pair of stilts if I'm to ever reach the top  So hold on! Hold on to what?    Sixty years and hes looking his worst  Sitting in the park where she'd died  Running hands through his final hair  These are the words that he cried    To achieve the American dream  You need a trampoline  To achieve the counter effect  Get that whisky down your neck'  And hold on, hold on to what?    Chamberlain had his paper  Jesus had his cross  They held on  We held on to what?