From a lifetime spending a cotton fee
And though he'd come home
He found the strength to smile at me
While that old transistor radio
Would play the opry out in the hall
I'd sit and watch their shadows
And they danced to a Dixie lullaby
A picture of love beneath a southern sky
Oh my, what a beautiful life
It's just like a Dixie lullaby
And I handed me down a Chevrolet
Packed with my mama's cooking
My old man's stubborn ways
And it was college work and love
An d in the early morning hours
when my children could not sleep
I'd rock them in my arms to a gentle beat
And sing them a Dixie lullaby
Say, hush baby, don't you start to cry
Oh my, what a beautiful life
It's just like a Dixie lullaby
My father was a mountain of a man
That was the description I gave
The morning we laid Him in His grave
There with my mama by His side
To a man I thought would never die
And as I stood there in that field
as I sang him a Dixie lullaby
Daddy will meet again, by and by
Oh my, what a beautiful life
It's just like a Dixie lullaby
Oh my, what a beautiful life
Yes, it's a Dixie lullaby
