Dixie Lullaby-Ameritz Tribute Tracks

[ti:Dixie Lullaby] [ar:Ameritz Tribute Tracks] [al:Dixie Lullaby - A Tribute to Pat Green] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dixie Lullaby - Ameritz Tribute Tracks [00:13.62]My father had skin like leather [00:18.32]Hands like steel [00:20.61]From a lifetime spent [00:22.92]In the cotton fields [00:26.69]Though he'd come home tired and dirty [00:29.76]Almost every night [00:33.13]He found the strength to smile at me [00:36.51]And hold my mama tight [00:39.21]While that old transistor radio [00:42.74]Would play the opry out in the hall [00:45.86]I'd sit and watch their shadows [00:48.03]Glide across the wall [00:50.77]And they'd dance to a Dixie lullaby [00:57.44]A picture of love beneath [01:00.39]The southern sky [01:03.71]Oh my what a beautiful life [01:10.00]Just like a Dixie lullaby [01:17.26]I left home at 18 [01:21.24]In a hand me down Chevrolet [01:24.19]Packed my mamas goodness [01:26.69]My old mans stubborn ways [01:30.35]It was college work and love [01:33.28]Then the babies came [01:36.73]The youngest one got [01:38.55]His granddaddy's name [01:42.61]And in the early morning hours [01:45.99]When my children could not sleep [01:49.26]I'd rock them in my arms [01:51.49]To a Jimmy beat [01:53.91]I'd sing them a Dixie lullaby [02:00.51]Hush baby don't you start to cry [02:06.46]Oh my what a beautiful life [02:13.19]Just like a Dixie lullaby [02:32.49]My father was a mountain of a man [02:36.07]That was the description that I gave [02:39.87]The morning that we laid him in his grave [02:45.55]There with my mama by his side [02:49.33]We said our last goodbye [02:52.16]To a man we thought would never die [02:58.12]As I stood there in the fields of amazing grace [03:04.52]Oh how the tears ran down my face [03:09.19]And I sang him a Dixie lullaby [03:16.22]We'll meet again by and by [03:22.20]Oh my what a beautiful life [03:28.89]Just like a Dixie lullaby [03:34.88]Oh my what a beautiful life [03:41.52]Just like a Dixie lullaby