Album: Back Home Again

Grandma¡¯s Feather Bed

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 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