Date: 12/22/97; 1:43:37 PM
From: "Christensen, LeonW" <LeonW_Christensen@ATK.COM>
Subject: Grandma's Feather Bed by John Denver

Grandma's Feather Bed
Recorded by John Denver
Lyrics and music by Jim Connor

C            F  
When I was a little bitty boy,
C               G7
just up off the floor
   C                  F
We used to go down to Grandma's house,
C           G7     C
every month end or so
       C               F
We had chicken pie and country ham,
    C                       G7
and home made butter on the bread
        C                     F
But the best darn thing about Grandma's house
        C         G7      C
was her great big feather bed

Chorus:
       C                  
It was nine feet tall and six feet wide,
F               C
soft as a downy chick
                       
It was made from the feathers of forty-leven geese,
       D7                          G7
took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
     C
It'd hold eight kids and four hound dogs
      F                       C
and a piggy we stole from the shed
                    C7           F 
We didn't get much sleep, but we had a lotta fun
    G7               C
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 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 mornin'
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 been fishin' with my uncle, I rassled with my cousin
and I even kissed Aunt Lou - ooh!
But if I ever had to make a choice
I guess it oughta be said
that I'd trade 'em all plus the gal down the road
for Grandma's feather bed

Repeat chorus