Red Dirt Girl Chords by Emmylou Harris
- Key: F#
- BPM: 81
- Capo: no capo
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RED DIRT GIRL CHORDS
[Start] [Intro] F# B F# B F# ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] F# Me and my best friend Lillian F# And her blue tick hound dog Gideon Bmaj7 F# Sittin' on the front porch coolin' in the shade C# 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# D#m7 Me and Lillian ■ B C#sus4 F# B ■ ■ Just across the line C#sus4 B F# And a little southeast of Meridian ■ F# She loved her brother I remember back when F# He was fixin' up a 'fortynine Indian B F# He told her Little sister gonna ride the wind F# Up around the moon and back again C#sus4 He never got farther than Vietnam B I was standin' there with her F# When the telegram come for Lillian [Chorus] B Now he's lyin' somewhere F# 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# And the stars might fall on Alabama B But one of these days I'm gonna swing F# My hammer down C#sus4 F# Away from this red dirt town ■ C# F# ■ I'm gonna make a joyful sound B F# B F# ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] F# She grew up tall and she grew up thin F# Buried that old dog Gideon B By a crêpe myrtle bush in the back of the yard F# C# Her dad 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# D#m7 So she dug right in ■ F# D#m7 ■ Across a red dirt line C# B F# Just a little southeast of Meridian ■ A#m Yes she tried hard to love him A#m But it never did take B It was just another way for the heart to break F# So she learned to bend [Chorus] A#m7 One thing they don't tell you about the blues A#m7 When you got 'em F# You keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom C# There ain't no end at least not for Lillian [Verse] F# Nobody knows when she started her skid F# She was only twentyseven and she had five 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 Bmaj7 About the life and the death of a red dirt girl F# Named Lillian B D#m7 B C# ■ Who never got any farther B F# C#sus4 Across the line ■ than Meridian [Chorus] B Now the stars still fall on Alabama B Tonight she finally laid F# C#sus4 That hammer down without a C#7 F# B F# ■ ■ ■ ■ [Outro]