Chords for Emmylou Harris "Red Dirt Girl"

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_ Me and my best friend Lillian and her blue tea can dog get in.
_ [B] Sitting on the front porch [G#] cooling in the [F#] shed.
Singing every song [C#] the radio played.
Waiting for the Alabama sun to go [F#] down.
[B] Two red dirt girls in a red [F#] dirt town.
Me and Lillian _ just
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_ _ [D#] across the [C#] line in a little [F#] southeast of Mercury. _ _ _ _ _
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_ She loved her brother I remember back when he was fixing up a 49 Indian.
_ [B] Told her little sister gonna ride the [F#] wind up around the moon and back again.
[C#] He never got farther than Vietnam.
I [B] was standing there with her when the telegram [F#] come for Lillian. _ _ _ _
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[D#m] Now he's lying somewhere [C#] about a million miles from [B] Meridian.
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[C#] She said there's not much over red dirt _ [B] _ _ _ there in the great big [F#] world that's where I'm back. _ _ _
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And [C#] the starry night for _ _ _
_ [B] _ these two I'm gonna swing my [F#] hammer down. _ _ _ _
[C#] Away from this red dirt town. _ _
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I'm gonna [F#] make a joyful sound. _ _
_ She _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ grew up tall and she grew up thin.
_ Married that old dog Gideon [B] by a great myrtle bush at the back of the [F#] yard.
Daddy turned mean and her mama [C#]
leaned hard.
[C#m] Got in trouble with a war from [G#] town.
[B] Figured that she might as well settle [F#] down.
So she dug right in. _
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[D#] Across the [B] red dirt [C#] line just a little _ [F#] southeast of Meridian.
Yeah _ _ she _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A#m] _ tried hard to love him but it never did take.
[B] Just another way for the heart to break so [F#] she learned to dig. _ _
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[A#m] One thing they don't tell you about the booze when you got [F#] in.
You keep on falling [B] cause there ain't no [F#] bottom there ain't no end. _
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Please [C#] not for Lillian. _ _ _
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[F#] _ _ Nobody knows when she started her sketch.
She was only 27 and she had five kids.
[B] Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [F#] pills, could have been the dreams she was trying to kill.
[C#] But there won't be a mention in the news of the world while [B] they're alive.
And the death of a red dirt [F#] girl named Lillian. _ _ _ _
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[D#m] Who never [B] got any [C#] further across the line [F#] than Meridian. _ _ _ _
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[C#] Now the stars do [C#m] fall and now the _ [B] night [G#] she finally laid that hammer [F#] down. _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ Without a sound.
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_ [F#] the red dirt _ _ ground.
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