Karaoké Dixie Lullaby Pat Green

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 Opry 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 mama's cookin' and my old man's 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 gentle beat

And I'd sing them a dixie lullaby

Hush baby don't you start to cry

Oh my what a beautiful life looks 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 that field 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