Pat Green - Dixie Lullaby guitar chord

Dixie Lullaby

Pat Green

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Verse One:

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My father had skin like leather, hands like steel

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From a lifetime spent in cotton fields

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And though he'd come home tired and dirty almost every night

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He found the strength to smile at me and hold my mama tight

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While that old transistor radio would play the Opry out in the hall

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I'd sit and watch their shadows glide across the wall

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And they danced to a dixie lullaby

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A picture of love beneath the southern sky

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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

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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

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Verse Three:

My father was a mountain of a man, that was the descr i ption 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

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Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a dixie lullaby

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