Four Poster Bed
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Four Poster Bed
recorded by Brenda Lee
written by Shel Silverstein
 
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It was just some boards of rough cut pine 
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And a quilt of patch work cotton
                           
A place to lay your body down 
         D7              G
Was that big four poster bed
 
                      
Daddy built it out of pine 
    C               G
Two days before the wedding
                      
They say the neighbors cheered and hollered 
A7                D7
Till his face got red
 
    G
And Mama brought the feather pillows 
C                 G
And some handmade bedding
                         
And they spent their wedding night 
        D7              G
In that big four poster bed
 
 
That night they swore like that bed 
      C               G
Their love would last forever
 
And they'd ask no more of life 
    A7                      D7
Than the simple things they had
 
   G
So they planed there future 
   C                 G
As they laid close together
 
And later I was born there 
        D7              G
In that big four poster bed
 
       C
It was just some boards of rough cut pine 
                          G
And a quilt of patch work cotton
  C                 G
A place to lay your body down 
  A7                 D7
A place to rest your head
 
C
A field of fluffy mountains 
                     G
For a little girl to hide in
                          
Clouds and chasing rainbows 
         D7              G
Was that big four poster bed
 
 
I remember as a child waking up 
C           G
On a winter morning
 
With Sound of laughing voices 
    A7                  D7
And the smell of baking bread
 
    G
And running across that coal wood floor 
C                  G
Jumping there with them
 
And Lord I felt so safe and warm 
        D7              G
In that big four poster bed
 
 
The day that daddy died 
   C                           G
He whispered something soft to mama
 
To this day she's never told a soul 
A7           D7
The words he said
 
    G
She just smiled through her tears 
    C                 G
And held his hand and nodded
 
And my daddy looked so much at rest 
        D7              G
In that big four poster bed
 
  
Now time has dried up all the tears 
C              G
Here I stand a woman
 
Your arms reach out to touch my soul 
     A7                  D7
Your sweet words turn my head
        
        G
Darling won't you tell me first 
C            G
This will be forever
 
Before you lead me up the stairs 
        D7              G
To that big four poster bed
 
                      
Cause only love has ever touched 
     D7              G
That big four poster bed

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