Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris
[F#]Me and my best friend Lillian
And her [F#]blue tick hound dog Gideon
[B]Sittin' on the front porch' coolin' in the shade
[F#]Singin' every song the radio played
[C#]Waitin' for the Alabama sun to go down
Two [B]red dirt girls in a red dirt town
Me and [F#]Lillian
Just ac[D#m]ross the line and a [C#]little southeast of Me[B]ridian
[F#]She loved her brother I remember back when
He was [F#]fixin' up a '49 Indian
He [B]told her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind
[F#]Up around the moon and back again"
He [C#]never got farther than Vietnam
I was [B]standin' there with her when the telegram come
For [F#]Lillian
Now he's [D#m]lyin' somewhere about a [C#]million miles from Me[B]ridian
She said "There's [Bbm]not much hope for a red dirt girl
Some[B]where out there is a great big world,
that's [F#]where I'm bound
And the [Bbm]stars might fall on Alabama, but [B]one of these days
I'm gonna swing my hammer [F#]down
Away from this [C#]red dirt town
I'm gonna make a joyful [F#]sound"
[F#]She grew up tall and she grew up thin
[F#]Buried that old dog Gideon
By a [B]crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard
Her [F#]daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
[C#]Got in trouble with a boy from town
[B]Figured that she might as well settle down
So she [F#]dug right in
Across the [D#m]red dirt line just a [C#]little southeast of Me[B]ridian
She [Bbm]tried hard to love him but it never did take
It was [B]just another way for a heart to break
So she [F#]learned to bend
But one [Bbm]thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em
You [B]keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom
There [F#]ain't no end, at least not for [C#]Lillian
[F#]Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was [F#]only 27 and she had 5 kids
[B]Coulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills
[F#]Coulda been the dream she was tryin' to kill
But there [C#]won't be a mention in the news of the world
About the [B]life and the death of a red dirt girl named [F#]Lillian
Who never [D#m]got any farther a[C#]cross the line than Me[B]ridian
Now the [Bbm]stars still fall on Alabama
To[B]night she finally laid that hammer [F#]down
Without a [C#]sound, in the [F#]red dirt ground
>From the album "Red Dirt Girl" by Emmylou Harris GRACD 103
Chords transcribed by Richard Kolarik
richard.kolarik@virgin.net
Malcolm Burn bass, electric guitar, drum box programming
Emmylou Harris vocal, acoustic guitar
Ethan Johns omnichord
Daryl Johnson percussion, bass pedals
Buddy Miller electric guitar
Any mistakes, e-mail me, and I will be duly embarrassed!
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