Dixie Lullaby Chords by Pat Green

[F#] _ _ [G] _ [D] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ [Am] _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ My [G] father had skin like leather
[Am] _ hands like steel
[C] from the lifetime
spend the [G] cotton feed
[D] _ [C] [G] No, he'd come home tired and dirty [Am] almost every night
[C] He found a strength to smile at me
[G] _
[D] Hold my mama tight
[Am] while that old transistor radio
[Em] Would later I'll be out in the hall
[C] I didn't watch the shadows glide [D] across the [G] wall and they dance to [Am] a Dixie The [G] _ _ picture
[Am] _ _ _ [C]
[G] Sky
Oh my [F] what a beautiful [C] life
Just like a [Am] Dixie I
[G] _ left _ home at 18 _
[Am] Hand me [Em] down Chevrolet
[C] Back with my mama's go
[G] my old man [D] stubborn way
[G] His college work love
[Am] Then the babies came
_ _ [C] Youngest one got his [D] granddaddy's name
_ [Am] And then the early morning hour
[Em] When my children could not sleep
[C] Rock him in my [G] arms to a [D] general B
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[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _
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[G] Oh
My father [C] _ [Am] _ [G] _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] was a mountain of a man
[Am] That was [G] description that I gave
[C] Morning every lady [G] in his grave
[D] There [G] was my mama by his side
[Am] Said the last goodbye
[C] to a man
Thought would [D] never die
As [Am] I stood there in the field [Em] of amazing grace
[C] Oh how the tears
Ran down [D] my face
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[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ Just [F] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ like a Dixie _ _
[G] _ _ _ Whoa
[F] _ Just [C] _ _ like [Am] a Dixie _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [G] _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
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