Red Dirt Girl written by Emmylou Harris F# F# 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 F# Me and Lillian F# C# B Just 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 B He told her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind F# Up around the moon and back again" C# 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 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 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 F# 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 F# Nobody knows when she started her skid F# She was 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 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# 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!