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 ro

Ountain 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 mo

N 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 grandma's house

Every monthend or so

We'd chicken pie and country ham

¡®n homemade 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 the 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 grann'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



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



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 i'd trade them all plus the gal down the road

For grandma's 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



Words and music by jim connor


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