Dixie Lullaby Tabs & Lyrics by Pat Green
Dixie Lullaby
guitar tabs lyrics
Dixie Lullaby
Pat Green
Key of G
Intro: G, C5, AM7, G x 2
G
My father had skin like leather
C
hands like steel
AM7 D
from a lifetime spent in the cotton fields
G
though he�d come home tired and dirty
C
almost every night
AM7 D
he found the strength to smile at me and hold my mama tight
C D
while that old transistor radio would play the Opry out in the hall
C D
id sit and watch their shadows glide across the wall
C G
and they�d dance to a Dixie lullaby
C G
picture of love beneath the southern sky
F C
oh my what a beautiful life
AM7 G
just like a Dixie lullaby
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
