Pat Green Dixie Lullaby Ukulele chords

Dixie Lullaby Ukulele by Pat Green

Dixie Lullaby
Pat Green

Key of G

Intro: G, C5, AM7, G x 2
G
My father had skin like leather
C
hands like steel
AM7                                              D
from a lifetime spent in the cotton fields
G
though he�d come home tired and dirty
C
almost every night
AM7                                                                              D
he found the strength to smile at me and hold my mama tight
C                                                                  D
while that old transistor radio would play the Opry out in the hall
C                                             D
id sit and watch their shadows glide across the wall

                                   C          G
and they�d dance to a Dixie lullaby
                 C                                    G
picture of love beneath the southern sky
            F                      C
oh my what a beautiful life
                 AM7     G
just like a Dixie lullaby


i left home at 18

in a hand me down Chevrolet

packed my mamas goodness and my old mans stubborn ways

it was college, work, and love

then the babies came

the youngest ones 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 simple beat


and id sing them a Dixie lullaby

hush baby don�t you start to cry

oh my what a beautiful life

just like a Dixie lullaby


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, we said our last goodbye

to a man we thought would never die

as I stood there in the fields of amazing grace

oh how the tears ran down my face.


and i sang him a Dixie lullaby

well meet again, by and by

oh my what a beautiful life

just like a Dixie lullaby


oh my what a beautiful life

just like a Dixie lullaby