Four Poster Bed Song Lyrics and Chords by Brenda Lee
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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cotton
A place to lay your body down
Was that
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bed
Daddy built it out of pine
Two
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days before the
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wedding
They say the neighbors cheered and hollered
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Till his face got
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red
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Mama brought the feather pillows
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And some handmade
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bedding
And they spent their wedding night
In that
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bed
That night they swore like that bed
Their
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love would last
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forever
And they'd ask no more of life
Than
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the simple things they
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had
So
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they planed there future
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they laid close to
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gether
And later I was born there
In that
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It was
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just some boards of rough cut pine
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cotton
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place to lay your
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body
down
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place to rest your
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head
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A field of fluffy mountains
For a little girl to
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hide
in
Clouds and chasing rainbows
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bed
I remember as a child waking up
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On a winter
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morning
With Sound of laughing voices
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the smell of baking
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bread
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running across that coal wood floor
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Jumping there with
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them
And Lord I felt so safe and warm
In that
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bed
The day that daddy died
He
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whispered something soft to
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mama
To this day she's never told a soul
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The words he
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said
She
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just smiled through her tears
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held his hand and
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nodded
And my daddy looked so much at rest
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Now time has dried up all the tears
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Here I stand a
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woman
Your arms reach out to touch my soul
Your
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sweet words turn my
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head
Darling
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won't you tell me first
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This will be
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forever
Before you lead me up the stairs
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bed
Cause only love has ever touched
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bed
FAQ
Who sang the the song Four Poster Bed?
- The song Four Poster Bed was sang by Brenda Lee.
Who is Brenda Lee?
- Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop and country music, she had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which has become a Christmas standard.At 4 ft 9 inches tall (approximately 145 cm), she received the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite" in 1957, after recording the song "Dynamite" when she was 12, and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following.In 1969, Lee returned to the charts with her recording "Johnny One Time" penned by A.L. "Doodle" Owens and Dallas Frazier. The song reached #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart and #41 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also earned Lee her second Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal. Later success came with a return to her roots as a country singer, with a string of hits through the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Lee is the only woman to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
