Dixie Lullaby Lyrics - 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 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 

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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 

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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