Denver John - Grandmas Feather Bed guitar tab

GRANDMA’S FEATHER BED

words and music: Jim Connor

sung by John Denver

[D] When I was a [G] little bitty boy [D] just up off-a [A7] floor

[D] We used to go down to [G] Grandma’s house [D] every month[A7]end or

[D] so

We’d chicken pie and [G] country ham ‘n’ [D] homemade butter on the [A7]

bread

But the [D] best darn thing about [G] Grandma’s house was her [A7] great

big feather

[D] bed. It was

Chorus: [D] nine feet tall and six feet wide [G] soft as a downy [D]

chick

It was[D] made from the feathers of forty ‘leven geese,

Took a [E7] whole bolt of cloth for the [A7] tick

It’d [D] hold eight kids ‘n’ four hound dogs and a [G] piggy we stole

from the [D]shed

We didn’t get much sleep but we [G] had a lot of fun on [A7] Grandma’s

feather [D] bed

After supper we’d sit around the fire the old floks’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 till the cobwebs filled my head

Next thing I’d know I’d wake up in the mornin’ in the middle of the old

feather bed. It

was

Chorus:

[D] for one bar, [G] for a bar, and [A7] for a bar, then:

[D] Well I love my Ma, I [G] love my Pa, I love [D] Granny and Grandpa

[A7] too

I been [D] fishin’ with my uncle, I [G] rassled with my cousins

I [D] even kissed [A7] Aunt [D] Lou

But if I ever had [G] to make a choice, I [D] guess it ought to be [A7]

said

That I’d [D] trade ‘em all plus the [G] gal down the road

For [A7] Grandma’s feather [D] bed

I’d trade ‘em all plus the [G] gal down the road.....[A7]

It was

Chorus: