Grandma's Feather Bed

Album: Back Home Again (1974)
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  • When I was a little bitty boy just up off the floor
    We used to go down to grandma's house every month end or so
    We'd have chicken pie, country ham
    Homemade butter on the bread
    But the best darn thing about grandma's house
    Was the great big feather bed

    It was nine feet high and six feet wide
    And soft as a downy chick
    It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese
    Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick

    It could hold eight kids and four hound dogs
    And a piggy we stole from the shed
    We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
    On grandma's feather bed

    After supper we'd sit around the fire, the old folks'd spit and chew
    Pa would talk about the farm and the war
    And granny'd sing a ballad or two
    And I'd sit and listen and watch the fire till the cobwebs filled my head
    Next thing I'd know I'd wake up in the morning
    In the middle of the old feather bed

    It was nine feet high and six feet wide
    And soft as a downy chick
    It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese
    Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick

    It could hold eight kids and four hound dogs
    And a piggy we stole from the shed
    We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
    On grandma's feather bed

    Well, I love my ma and I love my pa, I love granny and grandpa too
    I've been fishin' with my uncles, I wrestled my cousin
    I even kissed Aunt Lou, ew!
    But if I ever had to make a choice I guess it oughta be said
    That I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road
    For grandma's feather bed
    I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road

    It was nine feet high and six feet wide
    And soft as a downy chick
    It was made from the feathers of forty 'leven geese
    Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick

    It could hold eight kids and four hound dogs
    And a piggy we stole from the shed
    We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
    On grandma's feather bed
    We didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
    On grandma's feather bed Writer/s: Jim Connor
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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