Emmylou Harris – Red Dirt Girl chords

Red Dirt Girl  written by  Emmylou Harris

F#
F#Me and my best friend Lillian
        F#And her blue tick hound dog Gideon
BSittin' in the front porch' coolin' in the shade
F#Singin' every song the radio played
C#Waitin' for the Alabama sun to go down
    BTwo red dirt girls in a red dirt town
       F#Me and Lillian
       F#                  C#                    BJust across the line and a little southeast of Meridian


F#She loved her brother I remember back when
       F#He was fixin' up a '49 Indian
   BHe told her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind
F#Up around the moon and back again"
   C#He never got farther than Vietnam
      BI was standin' there with her when the telegram come
    F#For Lillian
         F#                      C#                   BNow he's lyin' somewhere about a million miles from Meridian


                  C#She said "There's not much hope for a red dirt girl
    BSomewhere out there is a great big world,
       F#that's where I'm bound
        C#                               BAnd the stars might fall on Alabama, but one of these days
                          F#I'm gonna swing my hammer down
               C#Away from this red dirt town
                        F#I'm gonna make a joyful sound"
F#She grew up tall and she grew up thin
F#Buried that old dog Gideon
     BBy a crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard
    F#Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
C#Got in trouble with a boy from town
BFigured that she might as well settle down
       F#So she dug right in
         F#                   C#                    BAcross a red dirt line just a little southeast of Meridian


    C#She tried hard to love him but it never did take
       BIt was just another way for a heart to break
       F#So she learned to bend
        C#But one thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got Îem
    BYou keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom
      F#                             C#There ain't no end, at least not for Lillian


F#Nobody knows when she started her skid
        F#She was only 27 and she had 5 kids
BCoulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills
F#Coulda been the dream she was tryin' to kill
          C#But there won't be a mention in the news of the world
          B                                           F#About the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian
          F#               C#                    BWho never got any farther across the line than Meridian

        C#Now the stars still fall on Alabama
  B                                  F#Tonight she finally laid that hammer down
          C#            F#Without a sound, in the 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


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