Dixie Lullaby-Rustic Rousers

[ti:Dixie Lullaby] [ar:Rustic Rousers] [al:Modern Cowboys] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.03]Dixie Lullaby - Rustic Rousers [00:01.89]Written by：Davis Russell Patrick/Green Pat/Pollard Justin [00:03.53] [00:13.62]My father had skin like leather [00:16.85] [00:18.26]Hands like steel [00:20.20] [00:20.71]From a lifetime spent [00:22.95]In the cotton fields [00:25.61] [00:26.89]Though he'd come home tired and dirty [00:29.77]Almost every night [00:32.39] [00:33.24]He found the strength to smile at me [00:36.18]And hold my mama tight [00:38.62] [00:39.30]While that old transistor radio [00:42.79]Would play the Opry out in the hall [00:45.63]I'd sit and watch their shadows [00:47.95]Glide across the wall [00:49.80] [00:50.49]And they'd dance to a Dixie lullaby [00:55.98] [00:56.97]A picture of love beneath the southern sky [01:02.46] [01:03.22]Oh my what a beautiful life [01:09.03] [01:09.87]Just like a Dixie lullaby [01:15.16] [01:16.90]I left home at 18 [01:19.15] [01:20.20]In a hand me down Chevrolet [01:22.81] [01:23.94]Packed my mamas goodness [01:25.73] [01:26.38]My old mans stubborn ways [01:28.99] [01:29.90]It was college work and love [01:32.13] [01:33.22]Then the babies came [01:34.80] [01:36.47]The youngest one got [01:37.95]His granddaddy's name [01:40.41] [01:42.49]And in the early morning hours [01:45.01] [01:45.89]When my children could not sleep [01:48.19] [01:48.74]I'd rock them in my arms [01:51.44]To a jimmy beat [01:53.04] [01:53.70]I'd sing them a Dixie lullaby [01:59.17] [02:00.18]Hush baby don't you start to cry [02:05.63] [02:06.35]Oh my what a beautiful life [02:11.91] [02:12.95]Just like a Dixie lullaby [02:18.84] [02:32.38]My father was a mountain of a man [02:35.81]That was the description that I gave [02:38.36] [02:39.40]The morning that we laid him in his grave [02:43.20] [02:45.50]There with my mama by his side [02:47.84] [02:49.01]We said our last goodbye [02:50.96] [02:52.11]To a man we thought would never die [02:55.67] [02:58.06]As I stood there in the fields of amazing grace [03:03.71] [03:04.34]Oh how the tears ran down my face [03:09.20]And I sang him a Dixie lullaby [03:14.97] [03:15.91]We'll meet again by and by [03:21.38] [03:22.16]Oh my what a beautiful life [03:27.83] [03:28.64]Just like a Dixie lullaby [03:34.15] [03:34.84]Oh my what a beautiful life [03:40.57] [03:41.28]Just like a Dixie lullaby