Key: C major
Verse 1
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F
When I was a little bitty boy
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G
just above the floor
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G
C
every month and or so
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G
homemade butter on the bread
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C
was a great big feather bed
It was nine feet high, six feet wide,
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C
soft as a downy chick
It was made from the feathers
of forty -eleven geese
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G
Took a hole for the clock for the tick
four -and -a -half dogs
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C
And a piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep,
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C
On Grandma's feather bed
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G
The old folks would spit and chew
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F
Pa would talk about the fire
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C
sing a ballad or two
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till the cobwebs filled my head
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C
in the middle of the old feather bed
It was nine feet high, six feet wide,
of forty -eleven geese,
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G
took a whole board of cloth for the tick
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C
and a piggy we stole from the shed
We didn't get much sleep,
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C
on Grandma's bed -a -bend
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C
G
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G
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F
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Well,
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F
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I love my Ma,
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I've been fishin' with my uncle,
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G
C
I even kissed Aunt Lou.
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G
I guess it ought to be said,
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F
I'd trade them all for the gal on the road
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C
for Grandma's feather bedded.
Yes, I'd trade them all for
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for Grandma's feather bedded.
It was nine feet high, six feet wide,
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soft as a dowdy chick.
It was made from the feathers of forty -lit,
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used to go home on a clock with a tick.
of four hound dogs
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and a piggy -meat stolen from the shed
We didn't get much sleep,
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C
on Grandma's Featherbed
We didn't get much sleep,
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C
on Grandma's Featherbed
Outro 1
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