Big Four Poster Bed

"Big Four Poster Bed" is a song written by Shel Silverstein and performed by Brenda Lee featuring the Nashville Sound.^[1] The song reached #4 on the U.S. country chart and #2 on the Canadian country chart in 1974.^[2] It was featured on her 1974 album, Now.^[3]

Song story

A sentimental tale, the song -- as told through the eyes of a young woman -- tells the story of a bed her father built with his own hands; the bed's frame and headboard are made of rough-cut pine, and on it lay a patchwork quilt and feather-downed pillows her mother made shortly before their wedding. The song recalls the future the newly married couple made for their future and their future family, as well as the stories of the girl's relationship with her father.

Later, her father falls ill and, in his last days, recalls many fond memories with his family as they keep a bedside vigil. After he dies, the woman remarks how at peace her father appeared to be lying in the bed he (literally) made.

In the final verse, the woman (now an adult) is about to take her wedding vows and ask her husband to uphold the same values of fidelity and trust her parents did, before spending their first night together in the same four-poster bed her father built years ago.

References

↑ Brenda Lee, "Big Four Poster Bed" single release Retrieved June 21, 2014
↑ Brenda Lee, "Big Four Poster Bed" Chart Positions Retrieved June 21, 2014
↑ Brenda Lee, Now Retrieved June 21, 2014

Shel Silverstein

Books	Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back The Giving Tree Don't Bump the Glump!: and Other Fantasies The Missing Piece Runny Babbit

Poem collections	Where the Sidewalk Ends A Light in the Attic Falling Up Every Thing on It

Albums	Freakin' at the Freakers Ball Inside Folk Songs Twistable Turnable Man Where the Sidewalk Ends A Light in the Attic

Songs	"25 Minutes to Go" "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" "Big Four Poster Bed" "A Boy Named Sue" "The Cover of Rolling Stone" "Marie Laveau" "The Mermaid" "One's on the Way" "Sylvia's Mother" "The Unicorn" "Wrong Ideas"

Film soundtracks	Ned Kelly (1970) Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)

Screenplays	Things Change (1988)

Brenda Lee

Albums	Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang! Brenda Lee This Is...Brenda Emotions All the Way Sincerely, Brenda Lee All Alone Am I ..."Let Me Sing" Brenda, That's All Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends

Other albums	The Winning Hand

Singles	"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" "One Step at a Time" "Let's Jump the Broomstick" "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" "Sweet Nothin's" "That's All You Gotta Do" "I'm Sorry" "I Want to Be Wanted" "Emotions" "You Can Depend on Me" "Dum Dum" "Fool #1 "Break It to Me Gently" "Speak to Me Pretty" "Everybody Loves Me But You" "Here Comes That Feeling" "Heart in Hand" "It Started All Over Again" "All Alone Am I" "Your Used to Be" "She'll Never Know" "Losing You" "I Wonder" "My Whole World Is Falling Down" "The Grass Is Greener" "As Usual" "Think" "Alone with You" "When You Loved Me" "Truly, Truly True" "Is It True" "Jingle Bell Rock" "Too Many Rivers" "Rusty Bells" "Coming on Strong" "Johnny One Time" "Let It Be Me" "Always on My Mind" "Sunday Sunrise" "Wrong Ideas" "Big Four Poster Bed" "Rock on Baby" "He's My Rock" "Tell Me What It's Like" "The Cowgirl and the Dandy" "Broken Trust"

Other singles	"Hallelujah, I Love You So" "America the Beautiful"

Songs	"Fly Me to the Moon" "The Letter" "Our Day Will Come"

Related topics	Discography Connie Francis Skeeter Davis Ricky Nelson Lesley Gore Red Foley Muruga Booker

Book:Brenda Lee

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