Grandma's Feather Bed

 

When I was ____a little bitty boy________just up offa 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

CHORUS

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.

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.

REPEAT CHORUS

Well, I love my ma, I love my pa_____I love granny and grandpa too

I've been fishin' with my uncles, wrestled with my cousins____I even kissed Aunt Lou (oo!)

But if I ever had to make a choice_____I guess it oughta be said

I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road____for that great big feather bed

Yes I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road____mumble: "well maybe I'd better reconsider_____about the gal down the road")