Red Dirt Girl  written by  Emmylou Harris

F# (244322@1)name="chord_244322@1">F#
Me and my best friend Lillian
        F#And (244322@1)her blue tick hound dog Gideon
BSittin' (x2444x@1)in the front porch' coolin' in the shade
F#Singin' (244322@1)every song the radio played
C#Waitin' (x43121@1)for the Alabama sun to go down
    BTwo (x2444x@1)red dirt girls in a red dirt town
       F#Me (244322@1)and Lillian
       F# (244322@1)                C# (x43121@1)                  BJust (x2444x@1)across the line and a little southeast of Meridian


F#She (244322@1)loved her brother I remember back when
       F#He (244322@1)was fixin' up a '49 Indian
   BHe (x2444x@1)told her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind
F#Up (244322@1)around the moon and back again"
   C#He (x43121@1)never got farther than Vietnam
      BI (x2444x@1)was standin' there with her when the telegram come
    F#For (244322@1)Lillian
         F# (244322@1)                    C# (x43121@1)                 BNow (x2444x@1)he's lyin' somewhere about a million miles from Meridian


                  C#She (x43121@1)said "There's not much hope for a red dirt girl
    BSomewhere (x2444x@1)out there is a great big world,
       F#that's (244322@1)where I'm bound
        C# (x43121@1)                             BAnd (x2444x@1)the stars might fall on Alabama, but one of these days
                          F#I'm (244322@1)gonna swing my hammer down
               C#Away (x43121@1)from this red dirt town
                        F#I'm (244322@1)gonna make a joyful sound"
F#She (244322@1)grew up tall and she grew up thin
F#Buried (244322@1)that old dog Gideon
     BBy (x2444x@1)a crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard
    F#Her (244322@1)daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
C#Got (x43121@1)in trouble with a boy from town
BFigured (x2444x@1)that she might as well settle down
       F#So (244322@1)she dug right in
         F# (244322@1)                 C# (x43121@1)                  BAcross (x2444x@1)a red dirt line just a little southeast of Meridian


    C#She (x43121@1)tried hard to love him but it never did take
       BIt (x2444x@1)was just another way for a heart to break
       F#So (244322@1)she learned to bend
        C#But (x43121@1)one thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got ?em
    BYou (x2444x@1)keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom
      F# (244322@1)                           C#There (x43121@1)ain't no end, at least not for Lillian


F#Nobody (244322@1)knows when she started her skid
        F#She (244322@1)was only 27 and she had 5 kids
BCoulda' (x2444x@1)been the whiskey, coulda been the pills
F#Coulda (244322@1)been the dream she was tryin' to kill
          C#But (x43121@1)there won't be a mention in the news of the world
          B (x2444x@1)                                         F#About (244322@1)the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian
          F# (244322@1)             C# (x43121@1)                  BWho (x2444x@1)never got any farther across the line than Meridian

        C#Now (x43121@1)the stars still fall on Alabama
  B (x2444x@1)                                F#Tonight (244322@1)she finally laid that hammer down
          C# (x43121@1)          F#Without (244322@1)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!