Dixie Lulaby

Intro Verse One: My father had skin like leather, hands like steel From a lifetime spent in cotton fields And though he'd come home tired and dirty almost every night He found the strength to smile at me and hold my mama tight While that old transistor radio would play the Opry out in the hall I'd sit and watch their shadows glide across the wall And they danced to a Dixie lullaby A picture of love beneath the southern sky Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby Verse Two: I left home at eighteen in a hand-me-down Chevrolet Packed with my momma's cooking and my old man's stubborn ways It was college, work and love and then the babies came The youngest one got his granddaddy's name And in the early morning hours when my children could not sleep I'd rock them in my arms to a gentle beat Chorus Two: I sang them a Dixie lullaby Hush baby don't you start to cry Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby Break Verse Three: My father was a mountain of a man, that was the description that I gave The morning that we laid him in his grave There with my mama by his side, I said my last goodbye To a man I thought would never die And as I stood there in that field of amazing grace Oh how the tears ran down my face Chorus Three: And I sang him a Dixie lullaby We'll meet again by and by Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby Outro Chords