GRANDMA'S FEATHER BED

                Words and Music by Jim Connor
                From the album BACK HOME AGAIN - John Denver

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 chicken pie and country ham
And home made butter on the bread
But the best darn thing about Grandma's house
Was her great big feather bed

      It was nine feet high and six feet wide
      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'd hold eight kids 'n 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 my Granny'd sing a ballad or two
I'd sit and listen and watch the fire
til 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

      (Chorus)

Well, I love my Ma, I love my Pa
Love my Granny and Grandpa too
Been fishing with my uncle, I rassled with my cousin
I even kissed Aunt Lou - OOOOOH
But if I ever had to make a choice
I guess it ought to be said
That I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road
For Grandma's feather bed

      (Chorus)

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Alternate live lyrics:
{I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road}
  {spoken quietly: Maybe I'd better reconsider about the gal down the road}
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