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red dirt girl Emmylou Harris
[F#] [F#]Me and my best friend Lillian
And her [F#]blue tick hound dog Gideon
[B]Sittin' in 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[F#]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 [F#]lyin' somewhere about a [C#]million miles from Me[B]ridian
She said "There's [C#]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 [C#]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 a [F#]red dirt line just a [C#]little southeast of Me[B]ridian
She [C#]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 [C#]thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got Îem
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 [F#]got any farther a[C#]cross the line than Me[B]ridian
Now the [C#]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
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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