Aunt Mattie's Quilt Lyrics - Little Ol' Cowgirl - Dixie Chicks

Aunt Mattie bent a thousand times down the long black rows 

Then battled with the angry weeds so little seeds could grow 

Come summer Mattie pulled the snow from cruel and cutting bolls 

She was patient pale and slender and was only eight years old 

Round 'n round the spinning wheel beneath Aunt Mattie's boot 

She recalled the soil and cotton seeds and summer's hopeful shoots 

Two winters spun out summer's threads in rich and creamy folds 

And she had a bolt of cotton cloth when she turned ten years old 

If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds 

If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs 

If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl 

We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world 

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Indigo and lavender made up Aunt Mattie's sky 

Remembering her childhood days she made the rustic dye 

The hour before the day would end it fed young Mattie's dream 

She made indigo and lavender when she turned just fourteen 

If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds 

If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs 

If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl 

We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world 

Aunt Mattie bends a thousand times down each patchwork row 

Piece by piece and stitch by stitch in fading candle glow 

The valley of the shadow cannot call her from her seams 

Until finishing her lifetime's work she dies at seventeen 

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If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds 

If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs 

If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl 

We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world