Dixie Lulaby

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Verse One: 
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My father had skin like leather, hands like steel 
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From a lifetime spent in cotton fields 
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And though he'd come home tired and dirty almost every night 
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He found the strength to smile at me and hold my mama tight 
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While that old transistor radio would play the Opry out in the hall 
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I'd sit and watch their shadows glide across the wall 
 
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And they danced to a Dixie lullaby 
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A picture of love beneath the southern sky 
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Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby
 

Verse Two: 
I left home at eighteen in a hand-me-down Chevrolet 
Packed with my momma's cooking and my old man's stubborn ways 
It was college, work and love and then the babies came 
The youngest one 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 

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I sang them a Dixie lullaby 
Hush baby don't you start to cry 
Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby 

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Verse Three: 
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, I said my last goodbye 
To a man I thought would never die 
And as I stood there in that field of amazing grace 
Oh how the tears ran down my face 

Chorus Three: 
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 
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Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby 

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