Chords with lyrics
F#F#
F#
Me and my best friend Lillian
F#F#
And her blue tick hound dog Gideon
BB
Sittin' in the front porch' coolin' in the shade
F#F#
Singin' every song the radio played
C#C#
Waitin' for the Alabama sun to go down
BB
Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town
F#F#
Me and Lillian
F#F# C#C# BB
Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian
F#F#
She loved her brother I remember back when
F#F#
He was fixin' up a '49 Indian
BB
He told her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind
F#F#
Up around the moon and back again"
C#C#
He never got farther than Vietnam
BB
I was standin' there with her when the telegram come
F#F#
For Lillian
F#F# C#C# BB
Now he's lyin' somewhere about a million miles from Meridian
C#C#
She said "There's not much hope for a red dirt girl
BB
Somewhere out there is a great big world,
F#F#
that's where I'm bound
C#C# BB
And the stars might fall on Alabama, but one of these days
F#F#
I'm gonna swing my hammer down
C#C#
Away from this red dirt town
F#F#
I'm gonna make a joyful sound"
F#F#
She grew up tall and she grew up thin
F#F#
Buried that old dog Gideon
BB
By a crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard
F#F#
Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
C#C#
Got in trouble with a boy from town
BB
Figured that she might as well settle down
F#F#
So she dug right in
F#F# C#C# BB
Across a red dirt line just a little southeast of Meridian
C#C#
She tried hard to love him but it never did take
BB
It was just another way for a heart to break
F#F#
So she learned to bend
C#C#
But one thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got Îem
BB
You keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom
F#F# C#C#
There ain't no end, at least not for Lillian
F#F#
Nobody knows when she started her skid
F#F#
She was only 27 and she had 5 kids
BB
Coulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills
F#F#
Coulda been the dream she was tryin' to kill
C#C#
But there won't be a mention in the news of the world
BB F#F#
About the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian
F#F# C#C# BB
Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian
C#C#
Now the stars still fall on Alabama
BB F#F#
Tonight she finally laid that hammer down
C#C# F#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
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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!
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