Red Dirt Girl chords by Emmylou Harris

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Red Dirt Girl written by Emmylou Harris


G+G
G MajorG
Me and my best friend Lillian
G+G
And her blue tick hound dog Gideon
C majorC
Sittin' on the front porch' coolin' in the shade
G+G
Singin' every song that the radio played
D MajorD
Waitin' for the Alabama sun to go down
    C majorC
Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town
      G+G
Me and Lillian
    G+G               D MajorD             C majorC
Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian

G+G
She loved her brother I remember back when
      G+G
He was fixin' up a '49 Indian
   C majorC
He told her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind
G+G
Up around the moon and back again"
   D MajorD
He never got farther than Vietnam
    C majorC
I was standin' there with her when the telegram come
    G+G
For Lillian
        G+G                  D MajorD              C majorC
Now he's lyin' somewhere about a million miles from Meridian

D MajorD
She said "There's not much hope for a red dirt girl
C majorC
Somewhere out there is a great big world,
     G+G
that's where I'm bound
       D MajorD                        C majorC
And the stars might fall on Alabama, but one of these days
                       G+G
I'm gonna swing my hammer down
            D MajorD
Away from this red dirt town
              G+G
I'm gonna make a joyful sound"

G+G
She grew up tall and she grew up thin
G+G
Buried that old dog Gideon
    C majorC
By a crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard
    G+G
Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
D MajorD
Got in trouble with a boy from town
C majorC
Figured that she might as well settle down
      G+G
So she dug right in
       G+G             D MajorD             C majorC
Across a red dirt line just a little southeast of Meridian

D MajorD
She tried hard to love him but it never did take
C majorC
It was just another way for a heart to break
      G+G
So she learned to bend
       D MajorD
But one thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em
    C majorC
You keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom
     G+G                     D MajorD
There ain't no end, at least not for Lillian

G+G
Nobody knows when she started her skid
       G+G
She was only 27 and she had 5 kids
C majorC
Coulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills
G+G
Coulda been the dream she was tryin' to kill
        D MajorD
But there won't be a mention in the news of the world
        C majorC                               G+G
About the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian

G+G           D MajorD              C majorC
Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian

D MajorD
Now the stars still fall on Alabama
   C majorC                          G+G
The night she finally laid that hammer down
D MajorD                 G+G
Without a sound, in the red dirt ground

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

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