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Harris Emmylou - Red Dirt Girl guitar tab

Red Dirt Girl written by Emmylou Harris

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Me and my best friend Lillian

F#

And her 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

B

Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town

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Me and Lillian

F# C# B

Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian

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She loved her brother I remember back when

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He was fixin' up a '49 Indian

B

He told her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind

F#

Up around the moon and back again"

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He never got farther than Vietnam

B

I was standin' there with her when the telegram come

F#

For Lillian

F# C# B

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

C#

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

B

Somewhere out there is a great big world,

F#

that's where I'm bound

C# B

And the stars might fall on Alabama, but one of these days

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I'm gonna swing my hammer down

C#

Away from this red dirt town

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I'm gonna make a joyful sound"

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She grew up tall and she grew up thin

F#

Buried that old dog Gideon

B

By 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

B

Figured that she might as well settle down

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So she dug right in

F# C# B

Across a red dirt line just a little southeast of Meridian

C#

She tried hard to love him but it never did take

B

It 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

B

You keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom

F# C#

There ain't no end, at least not for Lillian

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Nobody knows when she started her skid

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She was only 27 and she had 5 kids

B

Coulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills

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Coulda been the dream she was tryin' to kill

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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# B

Who 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

Any mistakes, e-mail me, and I will be duly embarrassed!

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