Dixie Lullaby

Album: Cannonball (2007)
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  • My father had skin like leather
    Hands like steel
    From a lifetime spent in the cotton fields
    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 op'ry out in the hall
    I'd sit and watch their shadows glide across the wall

    And they'd dance to a Dixie lullaby
    Picture of love beneath the southern sky
    Oh my, what a beautiful life
    Just like a Dixie lullaby

    I left home at eighteen
    In a hand me down Chevrolet
    Packed my mamas goodness and my old man's stubborn ways
    It was college, work, and love
    Then the babies came
    The youngest one's 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 I'd 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
    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 Writer/s: JUSTIN POLLARD, PAT GREEN, PATRICK DAVIS, RUSSELL DAVIS
    Publisher: CALHOUN ENTERPRISES, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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