Dixie Chicks Aunt Mattie`s Quilt Lyrics

Aunt Mattie`s Quilt Lyrics

Aunt Mattie bent a thousand times down the long black rows  Then battled with
the angry weeds so little seeds could grow Come summer Mattie pulled the snow
from cruel and cutting bolls Round 'n round the spinning wheel beneath Aunt
Mattie's boot She was patient pale and slender and was only eight years old Two
winters spun out summer's threads in rich and creamy folds She recalled the soil
and cotton seeds and summer's hopeful shoots And she had a bolt of cotton cloth
when she turned ten years old If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the
wicked weeds  If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent girl If we
let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs  Indigo and lavender made up
Aunt Mattie's sky We'll throw a healing quilt across an ever ailing world The
hour before the day would end it fed young Mattie's dream Remembering her
childhood days she made the rustic dye She made indigo and lavender when she
turned just fourteen If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds 
If we let the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs We'll throw a healing
quilt across an ever ailing world If we follow in the barefoot path of one
persistent girl  Aunt Mattie bends a thousand times down each patchwork row The
valley of the shadow cannot call her from her seams Piece by piece and stitch by
stitch in fading candle glow  Until finishing her lifetime's work she dies at
seventeen If we bend and plant the seeds and tame the wicked weeds If we let
the sun and rain assist and simplify our needs We'll throw a healing quilt
across an ever ailing world If we follow in the barefoot path of one persistent
girl