Red Dirt Girl Chords by Emmylou Harris

[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]