Chords for Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris Red dirt girl verona 2006

_ A song written by a mutual friend of mine and [E] Mark.
_ _ Lives in Nashville, that's probably why [N] I met Mark and we ended up working together.
Being here tonight, it's all because of Paul.
Paul Kennerly. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Well, I live in Nashville. _
_ We don't have anything like this. _
_ Although we do have an exact replica of the Parthenon.
_ We haven't figured out why.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ But this song was written, sort of [D] inspired by the first place I lived where I was born in Alabama.
_ _ _ _ [G] Some of [C] my memories [D] and _ [G] _ that area down there, [F] especially all that red [G] dirt. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Me and my best friend _ Lillian in her blue tail gown, all getting in.
_ [C] Sitting on the front porch, cooling in the [G] shade, singing every song the radio played.
_ [D] Waiting for the Alabama sun to go [Em] [C] down to the red dirt girls in the red dirt [G] town.
Me and Lillian, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ just across the line [D] in a little [C] southeast of Meridian. _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ She loved her brother, I remember back when he was fixing up a 49 Indian.
_ He [C] told her little sister, gonna ride the [G] wind up around the moon and back again.
_ [D] He never got far, me and Tom, [C] I was standing there with you in the telegram [G] convoy, Lillian. _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
Now he's lying somewhere [D] about a million [Bm] miles from [C] Meridian.
_ _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
She [D] said, there's not much over a red dirt [G] girl [C] somewhere.
_ There's a great big [G] world, that's where I'm bound. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
And the [D] stars, when _ _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ they stay, I'm gonna swing my [G] hammer down.
_ _ _ Away from [D] this red dirt _ town.
[G] _
_ [D] _ _ Gonna _ _ [G] make a joyful sound. _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
She grew up tall and she grew up thin. _
Buried that old nugget in [C] by a crape myrtle bush at the back of the yard.
[G] Her daddy turned mean and her mama [D] leaned hard.
_ Got in trouble with a boy from [C] town,
and figured that she might as well settle [G] down.
So she dug right in, _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ across [Em] the red dirt line, [D] just a little southeast [C] of Meridian.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Yes, she tried hard to love him, but it never did take.
It [C] was just another way for the heart to break, [G] so she learned to mend. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ But [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the blues,
is when you gotta [C] keep on ballin' cause there ain't no bottom, [G] there ain't no _ _ end. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ At least [D] not for the win.
_ [G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ Nobody knows when she started her skit, she was only 27 and she had five kids.
[C] Could've been the whiskey, could've been the pills,
[G] could've been the dream he was trying to kill.
[D] But there won't be a mention in the news of the world [C] by the light
of a red dirt [G] girl named Lily, _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ who never [E] got any further [D] across the line than [C] Meridian.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ But _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] she finally laid that [G] hammer down, _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] without a sound, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] in the red dirt _ ground. _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] _ [G] Ah, _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] ah, _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] ah.
[G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Thank you. _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _