Dixie Lullaby-Hit Crew Masters

[ti:Dixie Lullaby] [ar:Hit Crew Masters] [al:Southern Country Songwriter Favorites, Vol. 34] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dixie Lullaby - Hit Crew Masters [00:13.61]My father had skin like leather [00:17.35] [00:18.35]Hands like steel [00:19.76] [00:20.50]From a lifetime spent [00:22.83]In the cotton fields [00:26.42]Though he'd come home tired and dirty [00:28.92] [00:29.49]Almost every night [00:32.14] [00:33.00]He found the strength to smile at me [00:35.55] [00:36.34]And hold my mama tight [00:38.16] [00:38.97]While that old transistor radio [00:41.68] [00:42.64]Would play the opry out in the hall [00:44.95] [00:45.61]I'd sit and watch their shadows [00:47.92]Glide across the wall [00:49.84] [00:50.53]And they'd dance to a Dixie lullaby [00:55.23] [00:56.89]A picture of love beneath the southern sky [01:01.42] [01:03.21]Oh my what a beautiful life [01:08.88] [01:09.92]Just like a Dixie lullaby [01:15.03] [01:16.56]I left home at 18 [01:19.01] [01:20.19]In a hand me down Chevrolet [01:23.20] [01:23.91]Packed my mamas goodness [01:26.28]My old mans stubborn ways [01:29.54] [01:30.31]It was college work and love [01:32.20] [01:33.05]Then the babies came [01:34.90] [01:36.42]The youngest one got [01:38.30]His granddaddy's name [01:40.40] [01:42.52]And in the early morning hours [01:44.98] [01:45.52]When my children could not sleep [01:48.16] [01:49.11]I'd rock them in my arms [01:51.47]To a Jimmy beat [01:52.86] [01:53.77]I'd sing them a Dixie lullaby [01:59.18] [02:00.23]Hush baby don't you start to cry [02:05.46] [02:06.39]Oh my what a beautiful life [02:11.99] [02:13.06]Just like a Dixie lullaby [02:18.14] [02:32.38]My father was a mountain of a man [02:35.18] [02:35.89]That was the description that I gave [02:38.06] [02:39.52]The morning that we laid him in his grave [02:43.36] [02:45.12]There with my mama by his side we said our last goodbye [02:51.16] [02:52.11]To a man we thought would never die [02:56.24] [02:57.88]As I stood there in the fields of amazing grace [03:03.08] [03:04.47]Oh how the tears ran down my face [03:08.48] [03:09.17]And I sang him a Dixie lullaby [03:14.88] [03:15.92]We'll meet again by and by [03:21.27] [03:22.17]Oh my what a beautiful life [03:27.88] [03:28.64]Just like a Dixie lullaby [03:33.89] [03:34.81]Oh my what a beautiful life [03:40.39] [03:41.37]Just like a Dixie lullaby