Key: G major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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When I was a little
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bitty girl just up off the floor
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We used to go down to grandma's
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house every month end or so
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and homemade butter on the bread
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But the best darn thing about grandma's
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house was the great big feather bed
Verse 2
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and soft as a downy chick
It was made from the feathers of 40–11 geese,
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took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
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It could hold eight kids, and four hound dogs,
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and a piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep,
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but we had a lot of fun on grandma's feather bed
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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After supper, we'd sit around the fire,
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the old folks would spit and chew
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Pa talked about the farm and the war,
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and granny would sing a ballad or two
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'til the cobwebs filled my head
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I'd wake up in the morning in the middle of the old feather bed
Verse 4
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and soft as a downy chick
It was made from the feathers of 40–11 geese,
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D
took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
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It could hold eight kids, and four hound dogs,
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G
and a piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep,
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D
G
but we had a lot of fun on grandma's feather bed
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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Well, I love my ma and I love my pa,
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I love granny and grandpa too
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I've been fishin' with my uncles, wrestled my cousin,
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and I even kissed Aunt Lou (ew)
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But if I ever had to make a choice,
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I guess it oughta be said
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That I'd trade them all and a pickup
Verse 6
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and soft as a downy chick
It was made from the feathers of 40–11 geese,
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G
It could hold eight kids, and four hound dogs,
C
G
and a piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep,
C
D
but we had a lot of fun on grandma's feather bed
C
D
G
but we had a lot of fun on grandma's feather bed
Outro 1
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ChordsG C D A
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