Dixie Lullaby Pat Green Key of G Intro: G, C5, AM7, G x 2

^GMy father had skin like leather ^Chands like steel ^AM7from a lifetime spent in the cotton fields ^D ^Gthough he'd come home tired and dirty ^Calmost every night ^AM7he found the strength to smile at me and hold my mama tight ^D ^Cwhile that old transistor radio would play the Opry out in the hall^D ^Cid sit and watch their shadows glide across th^De wall

and they'd dance to a Dixie lullaby^C ^G picture of love b^Ceneath the southern sky ^G oh my what a^F beautiful life ^C just like a Dixie^AM7 lullaby^G

i left home at 18 in a hand me down Chevrolet packed my mamas goodness and my old mans stubborn ways it was college, work, and love then the babies came the youngest ones 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 simple beat and id sing them a Dixie lullaby hush baby don't you start to cry oh my what a beautiful life just like a Dixie lullaby 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, we said our last goodbye to a man we thought would never die as I stood there in the fields of amazing grace oh how the tears ran down my face. and i sang him a Dixie lullaby well 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

Pat Green - Dixie lullaby