Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl guitar chord

Red Dirt Girl

By Emmylou Harris

Capo 4

D

Me and my best friend Lillian

D

And her blue tick hound dog Gideon

G

Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade

D

Singin every song the radio played

A

Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down

G

Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town

D

Me and Lillian

Bm A G D

Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian

She loved her brother I remember back when

He was fixin up a '49 Indian

He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind

Up around the moon and back again"

He never got farther than Vietnam

I was standin there with her when the telegram come

For Lillian

Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian

Chorus 1:

A

She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl

G

Somewhere out there is a great big world

D

Thats where I'm bound

A

And the stars might fall on Alabama

G

But one of these days I'm gonna swing

D

My hammer down

A

Away from this red dirt town

D

I'm gonna make a joyful sound

She grew up tall and she grew up thin

Buried that old dog Gideon

By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard,

Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard

Got in trouble with a boy from town

Figured that she might as well settle down

So she dug right in

Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian

Bridge:

F#m

She tried hard to love him but it never did take

G

Just another way for the heart to break

D

So she learned it in

F#m

But one thing they don't tell you about the blues when you got em

G

You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom

D

There ain't know end

A

At least not for Lillian

Nobody knows when she started her skid

She was only 27 and she had five kids

Coulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills

Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill

But there won't be a mention in the news of the world

About the life and the death of a red dirt girl

Named Lillian

Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian

Now the stars still fall on Alabama

Tonight she finally laid that hammer down

Without a sound

In the red dirt ground