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Grandmas Feather Bed Lyrics

Artist: John Denver
Album: Back Home Again

This song appears on twelve albums, and was first released on the Back Home Again album. It has been released on the Greatest Hits Vol 2, Favourites, Changes, The Country Roads Collection and Rocky Mountain Holiday albums. Live versions also appear on the An Evening With John Denver, Live In London, Country Classics, The Very Best of John Denver (2 CD), The John Denver Collection - Rocky Mountain High and Live At The Sydney Opera House albums.

When I was a little bitty boy
Just up off-a floor
We used to go down to Grandmas house
Every monthend or so
Wed chicken pie and country ham
N homemade butter on the bread
But the best darn thing about Grandmas 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
Itd hold eight kids n four hound dogs
And a piggy we stole from the shed
We didnt get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
On Grandmas feather bed

After the supper wed sit around the fire
The old folksd spit and chew
Pa would talk about the farm and the war
And my Grannd sing a ballad or two
Id sit and listen and watch the fire
Till the cobwebs filled my head
Next thing Id know Id wake up in the morning
In the middle of the old 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
Itd hold eight kids n four hound dogs
And a piggy we stole from the shed
We didnt get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
On Grandmas feather bed

Well I love my Ma, I love my Pa
Love Granny and Grandpa too
Been fishing with my uncle, I rassled with my cousin
I even kissed Aunt Lou
But if ever had to make a choice
I guess it ought to be said
That Id trade them all plus the gal down the road
For Grandmas 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
Itd hold eight kids n four hound dogs
And a piggy we stole from the shed
We didnt get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
On Grandmas feather bed

Words and Music by Jim Connor

Comments/Interpretations
by buttercup on 7/15/2008 7:49am Anyone know what John Denver mumbles about "the gal down the road" after the 3rd verse?
by rlj on 8/2/2008 8:03am lol yeah i have the same question... i cant hear what he says.
by issie on 9/21/2008 11:04pm I first heard this song recently on You Tube on Bluebeardits channel. His version is wonderful also! Thanks for posting the lyrics!
by big Red on 9/26/2008 1:15pm so cool this song.My lifestyle still mirrors the words,the song represents my life, at least now I know the the right words. Thankyou.
by nifty on 11/7/2008 5:12am if it's a live version you're talking about he says "well,maybe I better reconsider about the gal down the road"...hope that's what you're after
by cool on 11/13/2008 5:19pm i like the piggy part!
by jdhbusser on 9/11/2009 5:34pm I think it is "I'd trade them all plus the gal down the road"
by babs on 10/22/2009 6:19am "Maybe I'd better reconsider about the gal down the road"

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