A-Sleeping At the Foot of the Bed-"Little" Jimmy Dickens/W.Williams

[ti:A-Sleeping At the Foot of the Bed] [ar:"Little" Jimmy Dickens] [al:Gaucho Serenade] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A-Sleeping At the Foot of the Bed - "Little" Jimmy Dickens/W.Williams [00:06.58]Did you ever sleep at the foot of the bed [00:09.67]When the weather was a whizzin' cold [00:11.80]When the wind was a whistlin' round [00:14.23]The house and the moon was yellow as gold [00:16.52] [00:17.09]You give your good one mattress [00:19.76]Up to aunt Lizzie and uncle Fred [00:21.69] [00:22.59]Too many kinfolks on a bad night [00:25.38]So you went to the foot of the bed [00:27.22] [00:28.55]I could always wait till the old folks [00:31.10]Had an eating believings with grace [00:32.76] [00:33.83]The teacher could keep me after school [00:36.43]I'd still have a smile on my face [00:38.63] [00:39.18]I could wear the big boys worn out clothes [00:42.01]And let sister have my sled [00:43.68] [00:44.39]But I'd always did get my nanny goat [00:47.07]To sleep at the foot of the bed [00:48.92] [01:11.77]Was fine enough when the kinfolks come [01:14.52]And the kids brought brand new games [01:16.25] [01:16.88]You could see how fat all the old folks [01:19.44]Was and learn all the babies names [01:21.50] [01:22.26]Had biscuits and custard and chicken pie [01:25.04]We all got Sunday fed [01:26.59] [01:27.50]But I'd know darn well when nighttime come [01:30.45]I was heading for the foot of the bed [01:32.55] [01:33.60]They say some folks don't know [01:35.87]What it is having company all over the place [01:37.87] [01:38.94]To wrestle for cover on a winter night [01:41.86]With a big foot sitting in your face [01:43.80] [01:44.32]Or a cold toenail just a scratching your back [01:47.07]And the foot boards grabbing your head [01:49.03] [01:49.65]I'll tell the world you ain't lost a thing [01:52.44]Never a sleepin' at the foot of the bed [01:54.36] [02:17.21]I've done it over and over again [02:19.54]In this land of the brave and the free [02:21.68] [02:22.34]And in this awful battle of life [02:25.07]It's left it's mark on me [02:26.86] [02:27.73]For I'm always a struggling around [02:29.99]At the foot instead of forging ahead [02:32.23] [02:33.09]And I don't think it's caused from a dog [02:35.69]Gone thing but a sleepin' at the foot of the bed