Red Dirt Girl Chords by Emmylou Harris

[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Me and my best friend Lillian and her blue tea can dog get in
[B] Sitting on the front porch [F#] cooling in the shade
Singing every song the radio [C#] played Waiting for the Alabama sun to go [F#] down
Two [B] red dirt girls in a red dirt [F#] town Me and Lillian
Just _
_ _ _ _ [D#m] [B] across the [F#] line in a little southeast of Meridian
She _ _ _ _ loved her brother I remember back when He was fixing up a 49 Indian
[B] Told her little [F#] sister gonna ride the wind Up around the moon and back again
[C#] He never got farther than Vietnam [B] I was standing there with her
When the telegram [F#] come for Lillian _ _ _ _ _
Now he's lying [C#] somewhere about a million [B] miles from Meridian
[F#] _
She _ _ [C#] said there's not much over _
[B] _ there There's a [D#m] great big [F#] world that's where I'm at
And _ _ _ [C#] the starry night far _
[B] east I'm gonna [F#] swing my hammer down _
[C#] Away from this red dirt town I'm _ _ [F#]
gonna make a joyful sound _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ She grew up tall and she grew up thin Married that old dog [B] Gideon
By a great myrtle bush at the back of the [F#] yard Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned [C#] hard
Got in trouble with a boy from [B] town Figured that she might as well settle [F#] down
So she dug right in _ _ _ [G#m] Across the [D#m] red dirt [C#] line just a little [F#] southeast of Meridian _ _ _ _ _
[A#m] Guess she tried hard to love him but it never did [B] tick
Just another way for the heart to [F#] break So she learned to bend
One _ _ _ [A#m] thing they don't tell you about the blues when you got them
You [B] keep on falling cause there ain't no [F#] bottom There ain't no end _ _ _
[C#] At least not for Lillian _ _ _ _ _
[F#] Nobody knows when she started her sketch She was only 27 and she had 5 [B] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [F#] pills, could have been the dreams she was trying to [C#] kill
But there won't be a mention in the news of the world of [B] the life and the death of [F#] a red dirt girl named Lillian
Who _ _ _ never got any [C#] further across the line than [F#] Lillian
Now _ _ _ the stars do [C#m] fall and now the [B] night she [F#] finally laid that hammer down _ _
[C#] Without a sound in _ _
[F#] the red dirt ground _ _ _ _
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