{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":481833,"song":"Dixie Lullaby","artist":"Pat Green","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11563976-dixie-lullaby-chords-by-pat-green/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/481833?type=chord","rating":4.41015,"votes":20,"content":"Dixie Lullaby\r\nPat Green\r\n\r\nKey of G\r\n\r\nIntro: [ch]G[/ch], [ch]C5[/ch], [ch]AM7[/ch], [ch]G[/ch] x 2\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy father had skin like leather[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nhands like steel[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]AM7[/ch]                                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nfrom a lifetime spent in the cotton fields[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nthough he’d come home tired and dirty[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nalmost every night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]AM7[/ch]                                                                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nhe found the strength to smile at me and hold my mama tight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nwhile that old transistor radio would play the Opry out in the hall[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nid sit and watch their shadows glide across the wall[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand they’d dance to a Dixie lullaby[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\npicture of love beneath the southern sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\noh my what a beautiful life[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]AM7[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\njust like a Dixie lullaby[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\ni left home at 18\r\n\r\nin a hand me down Chevrolet\r\n\r\npacked my mamas goodness and my old mans stubborn ways\r\n\r\nit was college, work, and love\r\n\r\nthen the babies came\r\n\r\nthe youngest ones got his granddaddy’s name\r\n\r\nand in the early morning hours when my children could not sleep.\r\n\r\nI’d rock them in my arms to a simple beat\r\n\r\n\r\nand id sing them a Dixie lullaby\r\n\r\nhush baby don’t you start to cry\r\n\r\noh my what a beautiful life\r\n\r\njust like a Dixie lullaby\r\n\r\n\r\nmy father was a mountain of a man\r\n\r\nthat was the description that I gave\r\n\r\nthe morning that we laid him in his grave\r\n\r\nthere with my mama by his side, we said our last goodbye\r\n\r\nto a man we thought would never die\r\n\r\nas I stood there in the fields of amazing grace\r\n\r\noh how the tears ran down my face.\r\n\r\n\r\nand i sang him a Dixie lullaby\r\n\r\nwell meet again, by and by\r\n\r\noh my what a beautiful life\r\n\r\njust like a Dixie lullaby\r\n\r\n\r\noh my what a beautiful life\r\n\r\njust like a Dixie lullaby","plain_text":"Dixie Lullaby\nPat Green\n\nKey of G\n\nIntro: G, C5, AM7, G x 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ni left home at 18\n\nin a hand me down Chevrolet\n\npacked my mamas goodness and my old mans stubborn ways\n\nit was college, work, and love\n\nthen the babies came\n\nthe youngest ones got his granddaddy’s name\n\nand in the early morning hours when my children could not sleep.\n\nI’d rock them in my arms to a simple beat\n\n\nand id sing them a Dixie lullaby\n\nhush baby don’t you start to cry\n\noh my what a beautiful life\n\njust like a Dixie lullaby\n\n\nmy father was a mountain of a man\n\nthat was the description that I gave\n\nthe morning that we laid him in his grave\n\nthere with my mama by his side, we said our last goodbye\n\nto a man we thought would never die\n\nas I stood there in the fields of amazing grace\n\noh how the tears ran down my face.\n\n\nand i sang him a Dixie lullaby\n\nwell meet again, by and by\n\noh my what a beautiful life\n\njust like a Dixie lullaby\n\n\noh my what a beautiful life\n\njust like a Dixie lullaby","chords":["G","C5","AM7","C","D","F"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}