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Freak
08-12-2005, 10:15 AM
When I was a little bitty boy, just up off-a floor.
We used to go down to grandma’s house
every month-end 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 old feather bed

It was nine feet high, 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, four hound dogs a piggy we stole from the shed.
We didn’t get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
on grandma’s old 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 gran’d sing a ballad or two.
I’d sit and listen and watch the flames,
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, 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, four hound dogs a piggy we stole from the shed.
We didn’t get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
on grandma’s old 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..... Ewwwww,
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 old feather bed.

It was nine feet high, 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, four hound dogs a piggy we stole from the shed.
We didn’t get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
on grandma’s old feather bed.

We didn’t get much sleep but we had a lot of fun
on grandma’s old feather bed

rommel
08-12-2005, 10:42 AM
quaint.................. :)

STEViE
08-12-2005, 11:01 AM
Think you'll find that on this album


http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/d/Denver/denver_backhome.jpg

Freak
08-12-2005, 11:03 AM
Think you'll find that on this album


http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/d/Denver/denver_backhome.jpg

and about 11 others STEViE
Will ya do a cover of it at our custom show ;)

STEViE
08-12-2005, 11:40 AM
and about 11 others STEViE
Will ya do a cover of it at our custom show ;)
If I've got it on either of his greatest hits albums that I've got then yes maybe even for 14th Jan :D

Already do a version of Leavin' On A Jet Plane occasionally round a fire.

That said, I can't stand Country Roads. Everywhere, an' I do mean everywhere, we used to play in Germany we'd get folks comin' up an' askin' for it. Playedit the first few times we went over there with Kane & Co. 'cos I didn't have to sing it but when we went over with Cactus Jack an' I was handlin' a majority of the lead vocals I said no way. Dunno what it is about that song but every fecker wants to hear it over there.

STEViE
08-12-2005, 12:08 PM
Got it. Took some findin' amongst my albums tho ....


http://www.vinylparadise.com/5pop_eng/2/john_dr4.jpg

Freak
08-12-2005, 12:11 PM
BRILLIANT
:D :D :D :D

Just in case anydody else was wondering, Tick - a light mattress.

STEViE
08-12-2005, 12:30 PM
OK, the chorus is sorted 'cos I can remember that but I'll have to get the record on later to hear how the verses go :D


Right I'm out of here.

STEViE - Gone to the dogs.

Santa
08-12-2005, 02:54 PM
Got it. Took some findin' amongst my albums tho ....


http://www.vinylparadise.com/5pop_eng/2/john_dr4.jpg





I take it that's a single, not an album! :D :D

STEViE
08-12-2005, 03:56 PM
I take it that's a single, not an album! :D :D
Good one Santa :p :D

Bosun
08-12-2005, 06:56 PM
there was me thinking freaks next project was a triton
http://www.unityequipe.com/html/products.html

critch
08-12-2005, 07:19 PM
i have an old featherbed im stuffing an 8 valve rickman triumph motor in it at present :)








bugger didnt see fayjis thread and thought i was being clever :(

Freak
08-12-2005, 07:24 PM
See.. you both fell into my trap :p :D

Bosun
08-12-2005, 07:57 PM
See.. you both fell into my trap :p :D


cuse you country bumkins with wire snares

STEViE
09-12-2005, 12:12 AM
curse you country bumkins with wire snares, I'd have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for that pesky Freak :D

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