My father had skin like leather, hands like steel
From a lifetime spent in cotton fields
And though he'd come home tired and dirty almost every night
He found the strength to smile at me and hold my mama tight
While that old transistor radio would play the Opry out in the hall
I'd sit and watch their shadows glide across the wall
And they danced to a Dixie lullaby
A picture of love beneath the southern sky
Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby
I left home at eighteen in a hand-me-down Chevrolet
Oh my what a beautiful life, just like a Dixie lullaby
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