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Red Dirt Girl written by Emmylou Harris <<This tab is accurate with regard to the way Emmylou Harris plays it in her live shows. I watched several of her performances on YouTube and she plays open cords G, C, and D with just a few embellishments.>> G
GMe and my best friend Lillian GAnd her blue tick hound dog Gideon CSittin' on the front porch' coolin' in the shade GSingin' every song that the radio played DWaitin' for the Alabama sun to go down Two red Cdirt girls in a red dirt town Me and LilliGan Just acGross the line and a little soutDheast of Meridian C
GShe loved her brother I remember back when He was fixinG' up a '49 Indian He toCld her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind GUp around the moon and back again" He nevDer got farther than Vietnam I was stCandin' there with her when the telegram come For LilGlian Now he's lyin' Gsomewhere about a million miles from DMeridian C
She said "There's not Dmuch hope for a red dirt girl CSomewhere out there is a great big world, that's whGere I'm bound And the starsD might fall on Alabama, but one of these days C I'm gonna swing my hammer down G Away from this red dirt Dtown I'm gonna make a joyful sounGd"
GShe grew up tall and she grew up thin GBuried that old dog Gideon By a crCepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard Her dadGdy turned mean and her mama leaned hard DGot in trouble with a boy from town CFigured that she might as well settle down So she dug Gright in Across a red dGirt line just a little soutDheast of Meridian C
DShe tried hard to love him but it never did take CIt was just another way for a heart to break So she learGned to bend But one thingD they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em You keeCp on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom There ain'Gt no end, at least not for Lillian D
GNobody knows when she started her skid She was only G27 and she had 5 kids CCoulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills GCoulda been the dream she was tryin' to kill But there won'tD be a mention in the news of the world About the life aCnd the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian G
Who never got anyG farther across the linDe than Meridian C Now the stars Dstill fall on Alabama The niCght she finally laid that hammer down G DWithout a sound, in the red dirt grGound
>From the album "Red Dirt Girl" by Emmylou Harris GRACD 103 Chords transcribed by Richard Kolarik richard.kolarik@virgin.net Malcolm Burn bass, electric guitar, drum box programming Emmylou Harris vocal, acoustic guitar Ethan Johns omnichord Daryl Johnson percussion, bass pedals Buddy Miller electric guitar