Grandma's Feather Bed
Group 1: Sing the PLINKA....PLINKA ...PLINK at the beginning of the song Group 2: Sing the words at the beginning of the song Lyrics: When I was a little bitty child, 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 the great big feather bed It was nine feet tall 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 and four hound dogs And a piggy we stole from the shed Didn't get much sleep but we had a lot of fun On grandma's feather bed After supper we sit around the fire, the old folks spit and chew. Ew! 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'