Chords for First Aid Kit - Red Dirt Girl (Emmylou Harris cover) @ Polar Music Prize 2015

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_ _ _ me and my best friend Lillian and her blue deckhound dog [Eb] Gideon
sitting on the front porch cooling in the shade singing a song the radio played
waiting for the Alabama sun to go down [Db] two red dirt girls in a red dirt [Ab] town me and Lillian _ _
_ _ _ _ _ just across the line on a [Eb] little [Db] southeast of Meridian _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ she loved her brother I remember back when he was fixing up a 49 in the end
[Db] told her little sister gonna ride the [Ab] wind up around the moon and back again
[Eb] never got further than Vietnam [Db] I was sitting there with her when the telegram [Ab] called for Lillian
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now he's lying somewhere [Eb] about a million [Db] miles from Meridian
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[Eb] she said there's not much hope for a red dirt [Db] girl somewhere out there
it's a great big [Ab] world that's where I'm bound _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] and the stars may fall on [Db] Alabama but one of these days I'm gonna swing my F for [Ab] now
_ _ away [Eb] from this red dirt town _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] gonna make a joyful _ _ sound _ _
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roof tall and the fuel all thin bury that old dog Gideon
[Db] by a creek myrtle bush in the back of [Ab] the yard her daddy turning mean and her mama leaving [Eb] hard
got in trouble with a boy from [Db] town figured that she might as well [Ab] settle down so she dug right in _ _ _ _ _
_ cause a red dirt [Eb] line just a little southeast of Meridian _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] she tried hard to love him but it never did take it [Db] was just another way for the heart to break [Ab] so she learned to bend
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] one thing it'll tell you about the blues when you got it [Db] you keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom [Ab] there ain't no _ end _ _
_ it's [Eb] not for Lillian _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] nobody knows when she started to dig she was only 27 and she had 5 [Db] kids
could have been the whiskey could have been the pills [Ab] could have been the dream she was trying to kill
[Eb] there won't be a mention in the news of the world [Db] of the life and the death of a red [Ab] dirt girl named Lillian _
_ _ _ _ _ _ we never got any further [Eb] across the [Db] line than Meridian _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] now the stars still fall on Alabama [Db] but tonight she finally laid that hammer [Ab] down
_ without _ [Eb] a sound _ in _ _ _ [Ab] the red dirt ground _ _ _ _ _
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