Chords for Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl - Live.wmv
Tempo:
80.75 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
C
Em
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D] [Eb] [G]
Me and my best friend Lillian and her blue-tailed cow dog [C] Gideon
Sitting on the prime porch cooling in the [G] shade
Singing every song the radio [D] played
Waiting for the Alabama sun to go down
Two [C] red-dirt girls in a red-dirt [G] town
Me and Lillian just across the [D] line in a little [C] southeastern reunion
[G] She loved her brother I remember back when
He was fixing up a 49 Indian
[C] Told her little sister gonna ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D] Never [Em] got [A] farther than me [Dm] and Tom
[C] I was standing there with her when the telegram
Come [G] for Lillian
I [E] [F] [G] was lying somewhere [D] about a million [C] miles from Meridian
[G]
She [D] said there's not much over red-dirt girls
[C] Now there's a great big world [G] that's found there
And [D] the skylight [C] part of these dunes
Swing [G] my murder down
Away [D] from this red-dirt town
Gonna [G] make a joyful sound
She grew up tall and she grew up thin
Heard that old dog Gideon
[C] By a great myrtle bush at the back [G] of the yard
Her daddy turned mean and her mama [A] leaned hard
[D] Got in trouble with a boy [G] from [C] town
Figured that she might as well settle down
[G] So she dug right in
[Em]
[D] [G] Across the red-dirt line [D] just a little southeast [C] from Meridian
[G] Yeah [Bm] she tried hard to love him but it never did take
[C] It was just another way by the [G] hard and the brave
So she learned to bend
The [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the blues
When you got [C] them, you keep on falling
Cause there ain't no [G] bottom, there ain't no end
At least [D] not to Lillian
[G] Nobody knows when she started her skit
She was only 27 then she had five [C] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [G] pills
Could have been the dreams she was trying to kill
[D] But there won't be a mention in the news
Of the [C] world by the life and the death
Of a red-dirt [G] girl named Lillian
Who [D] [G] never got any [Dm] further across the [G] line of Meridian
Found [D] a star and they [C]
laid [G] that hammer down
[D] Without a sound
[G] [D] From [G] the red-dirt ground
[D] [G] [D] [G]
Me and my best friend Lillian and her blue-tailed cow dog [C] Gideon
Sitting on the prime porch cooling in the [G] shade
Singing every song the radio [D] played
Waiting for the Alabama sun to go down
Two [C] red-dirt girls in a red-dirt [G] town
Me and Lillian just across the [D] line in a little [C] southeastern reunion
[G] She loved her brother I remember back when
He was fixing up a 49 Indian
[C] Told her little sister gonna ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D] Never [Em] got [A] farther than me [Dm] and Tom
[C] I was standing there with her when the telegram
Come [G] for Lillian
I [E] [F] [G] was lying somewhere [D] about a million [C] miles from Meridian
[G]
She [D] said there's not much over red-dirt girls
[C] Now there's a great big world [G] that's found there
And [D] the skylight [C] part of these dunes
Swing [G] my murder down
Away [D] from this red-dirt town
Gonna [G] make a joyful sound
She grew up tall and she grew up thin
Heard that old dog Gideon
[C] By a great myrtle bush at the back [G] of the yard
Her daddy turned mean and her mama [A] leaned hard
[D] Got in trouble with a boy [G] from [C] town
Figured that she might as well settle down
[G] So she dug right in
[Em]
[D] [G] Across the red-dirt line [D] just a little southeast [C] from Meridian
[G] Yeah [Bm] she tried hard to love him but it never did take
[C] It was just another way by the [G] hard and the brave
So she learned to bend
The [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the blues
When you got [C] them, you keep on falling
Cause there ain't no [G] bottom, there ain't no end
At least [D] not to Lillian
[G] Nobody knows when she started her skit
She was only 27 then she had five [C] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [G] pills
Could have been the dreams she was trying to kill
[D] But there won't be a mention in the news
Of the [C] world by the life and the death
Of a red-dirt [G] girl named Lillian
Who [D] [G] never got any [Dm] further across the [G] line of Meridian
Found [D] a star and they [C]
laid [G] that hammer down
[D] Without a sound
[G] [D] From [G] the red-dirt ground
[D] [G] [D] [G]
Key:
G
D
C
Em
A
G
D
C
_ [D] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Me and my best friend Lillian and her blue-tailed cow dog [C] Gideon
Sitting on the prime porch cooling in the [G] shade
Singing every song the radio [D] played
Waiting for the Alabama sun to go down
Two [C] red-dirt girls in a red-dirt [G] town
Me and Lillian just _ _ _ _ across the [D] line in a little [C] southeastern reunion
_ [G] _ _ She loved her brother I remember back when
He was fixing up a 49 Indian
[C] Told her little sister gonna ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D] Never [Em] got [A] farther than me [Dm] and Tom
[C] I was standing there with her when the telegram
Come [G] for Lillian
I [E] _ [F] _ [G] _ was lying somewhere [D] about a million [C] miles from Meridian
_ [G] _
She _ [D] said there's not much over red-dirt girls
[C] Now there's a great big world [G] that's found there _ _
And [D] the skylight _ [C] part of these dunes
Swing [G] my murder down
Away [D] from this red-dirt town
_ _ _ Gonna [G] make a joyful sound _ _ _ _
She _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ grew up tall and she grew up thin
Heard that old dog Gideon
[C] By a great myrtle bush at the back [G] of the yard
Her daddy turned mean and her mama [A] leaned hard
[D] Got in trouble with a boy [G] from [C] town
Figured that she might as well settle down
[G] So she dug right in
_ [Em] _
[D] _ [G] _ Across the red-dirt line [D] just a little southeast [C] from Meridian
[G] Yeah _ _ _ [Bm] she tried hard to love him but it never did take
[C] It was just another way by the [G] hard and the brave
So she learned to bend
_ The _ [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the blues
When you got [C] them, you keep on falling
Cause there ain't no [G] bottom, there ain't no end
_ _ At least [D] not to Lillian
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Nobody knows when she started her skit
She was only 27 then she had five [C] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [G] pills
Could have been the dreams she was trying to kill
[D] But there won't be a mention in the news
Of the [C] world by the life and the death
Of a red-dirt [G] girl named Lillian
Who _ _ [D] _ [G] never got any [Dm] further across the [G] line of Meridian
_ Found _ _ _ [D] a star and they _ [C] _
_ laid [G] that hammer down _ _
[D] Without a sound
[G] [D] From _ _ [G] the red-dirt ground
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Me and my best friend Lillian and her blue-tailed cow dog [C] Gideon
Sitting on the prime porch cooling in the [G] shade
Singing every song the radio [D] played
Waiting for the Alabama sun to go down
Two [C] red-dirt girls in a red-dirt [G] town
Me and Lillian just _ _ _ _ across the [D] line in a little [C] southeastern reunion
_ [G] _ _ She loved her brother I remember back when
He was fixing up a 49 Indian
[C] Told her little sister gonna ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D] Never [Em] got [A] farther than me [Dm] and Tom
[C] I was standing there with her when the telegram
Come [G] for Lillian
I [E] _ [F] _ [G] _ was lying somewhere [D] about a million [C] miles from Meridian
_ [G] _
She _ [D] said there's not much over red-dirt girls
[C] Now there's a great big world [G] that's found there _ _
And [D] the skylight _ [C] part of these dunes
Swing [G] my murder down
Away [D] from this red-dirt town
_ _ _ Gonna [G] make a joyful sound _ _ _ _
She _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ grew up tall and she grew up thin
Heard that old dog Gideon
[C] By a great myrtle bush at the back [G] of the yard
Her daddy turned mean and her mama [A] leaned hard
[D] Got in trouble with a boy [G] from [C] town
Figured that she might as well settle down
[G] So she dug right in
_ [Em] _
[D] _ [G] _ Across the red-dirt line [D] just a little southeast [C] from Meridian
[G] Yeah _ _ _ [Bm] she tried hard to love him but it never did take
[C] It was just another way by the [G] hard and the brave
So she learned to bend
_ The _ [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the blues
When you got [C] them, you keep on falling
Cause there ain't no [G] bottom, there ain't no end
_ _ At least [D] not to Lillian
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Nobody knows when she started her skit
She was only 27 then she had five [C] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [G] pills
Could have been the dreams she was trying to kill
[D] But there won't be a mention in the news
Of the [C] world by the life and the death
Of a red-dirt [G] girl named Lillian
Who _ _ [D] _ [G] never got any [Dm] further across the [G] line of Meridian
_ Found _ _ _ [D] a star and they _ [C] _
_ laid [G] that hammer down _ _
[D] Without a sound
[G] [D] From _ _ [G] the red-dirt ground
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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