Emmylou Harris – Red Dirt Girl (Guitar)

[Chords]
 ---Verse/Chorus---  ----Fill----  --...Meridian--
    G   C   D   Bm   Em7 Cadd9 D4  Em7 Cadd9 D4
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Me and my best friend Lillian 

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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

       G         Em7 Cadd9 D4  (Fill)
Me and Lillian

     Em7         Cadd9     D4                     C        
Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian. 

    G
She loved her brother I remember back when 

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He was fixin up a '49 Indian

   C
He told her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind

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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

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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

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That's where I'm bound

        D
And the stars might fall on Alabama

    C
But one of these days I'm gonna swing 

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My hammer down

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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

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Buried that old dog Gideon

     C
By a crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard,

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Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard

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   Got in trouble with a boy from town

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Figured that she might as well settle down

       G            Em7 Cadd9 D4
So she dug right in

         Em7      Cadd9       D4                     C
Across a red dirt line just a little southeast of Meridian

    Bm                                   
She tried hard to love him but it never did take

       C
It was just another way for the heart to break

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So she learned to bend. 

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

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You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom

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There ain't no end. 

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At least not for Lillian

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Nobody knows when she started her skid,

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She was only twenty seven and she had five kids.

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Could'a been the whiskey, could'a been the pills, 

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Could'a been the dream she was trying to kill.

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

          C
About the life and the death of a red dirt girl

      G       Em7 Cadd9 D4
Named Lillian

          Em7     Cadd9     D4                   C
Who never got any further across the line than Meridian.

        D
Now the stars still fall on Alabama

  C
Tonight she finally laid 

            G
That hammer down

          D
Without a sound

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In the red dirt ground