Grandma's Feather Bed - Live at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA - August/September 1974

When I was a little bitty boy
 Just up off the floor
 We used to go down to Grandma's house
 Every month end or so
 We'd have chicken pie and country ham
 And 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-eleven geese
 Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
 It'd hold eight kids and 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 supper, we'd sit around the fire
 The old folks'd spit and chew
 Pa would talk about the farm and the war
 And Granny'd sing a ballad or two
 I'd sit and listen and watch the fire
 'Til 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-eleven geese
 Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
 It'd hold eight kids and four hound dogs
 And a piggy we'd stolen 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
 I love Granny and Grandpa too
 I been fishing with my uncle, I wrestled with my cousin
 I even kissed Aunt Lou, ooh!
 But if I ever had to make a choice
 I guess it ought to be said
 That I'd trade 'em all plus the gal down the road
 For Grandma's feather bed
 I'd trade 'em all, plus the gal down the road
 (Well, a basic bed ain't 'bout the gal down the road)
 It was nine feet high and six feet wide
 Soft as a downy chick
 It was made from the feathers of forty-eleven geese
 Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
 And it holds eight kids and four hound dogs
 And a piggy we'd stolen from the shed
 We didn't get much sleep, but we had a lot of fun
 On Grandma's feather bed
 We didn't get much sleep, but we had a lot of fun
 On Grandma's feather bed