Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris Chords
Chords: G, C, D, Em7, Cadd9, D4, Bm
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G
Me and my best friend Lillian
G
And her blue tick hound dog Gideon,
C
Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade
G
Singin every song the radio played
D
Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down
C
Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town
Em7 Cadd9 D4 C
Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian.
G
She loved her brother I remember back when
G
He was fixin up a '49 Indian
C
He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind
G
Up around the moon and back again"
D
He never got farther than Vietnam,
C
I was standin there with her when the telegram come
G Em7 Cadd9 D4
For Lillian.
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Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian.
D
She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl
C
Somewhere out there is a great big world
G
That's where I'm bound
D
And the stars might fall on Alabama
C
But one of these days I'm gonna swing
G
My hammer down
D
Away from this red dirt town
G
I'm gonna make a joyful sound
G
She grew up tall and she grew up thin
G
Buried that old dog Gideon
C
By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard,
G
Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
D
Got in trouble with a boy from town
C
Figured that she might as well settle down
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So she dug right in
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Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian
Bm
She tried hard to love him but it never did take
C
It was just another way for the heart to break
G
So she dug right in.
Bm
But one thing they don't tell you about the blues when you got'em
C
You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom
G
There ain't know end.
D G
At least not for Lillian
G
Nobody knows when she started her skid,
G
She was only twenty seven and she had five kids.
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