Red Dirt Girl Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

F♯MeF♯ and my best friend Lillian

 And her F♯blue tick hound dog Gideon

BSittin' in the front porch' coolin' in the shade

F♯Singin' every song the radio played

C♯Waitin' for the Alabama sun to go down

 Two Bred dirt girls in a red dirt town

 Me and F♯Lillian

 Just acF♯ross the line and a C♯little southeast of MeBridian

F♯She loved her brother I remember back when

 He was F♯fixin' up a '49 Indian

 He Btold her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind

F♯Up around the moon and back again"

 He C♯never got farther than Vietnam

 I was Bstandin' there with her when the telegram come

 For F♯Lillian

 Now he's F♯lyin' somewhere about a C♯million miles from MeBridian

 She said "There's C♯not much hope for a red dirt girl

 SomeBwhere out there is a great big world,

 that's F♯where I'm bound

 And the C♯stars might fall on Alabama, but Bone of these days

 I'm gonna swing my hammer F♯down

 Away from this C♯red dirt town

 I'm gonna make a joyful F♯sound"

F♯She grew up tall and she grew up thin

F♯Buried that old dog Gideon

 By a Bcrepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard

 Her F♯daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard

C♯Got in trouble with a boy from town

BFigured that she might as well settle down

 So she F♯dug right in

 Across a F♯red dirt line just a C♯little southeast of MeBridian

 She C♯tried hard to love him but it never did take

 It was Bjust another way for a heart to break

 So she F♯learned to bend

 But one C♯thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got Îem

 You Bkeep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom

 There F♯ain't no end, at least not for C♯Lillian

F♯Nobody knows when she started her skid

 She was F♯only 27 and she had 5 kids

BCoulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills

F♯Coulda been the dream she was tryin' to kill

 But there C♯won't be a mention in the news of the world

 About the Blife and the death of a red dirt girl named F♯Lillian

 Who never F♯got any farther aC♯cross the line than MeBridian

 Now the C♯stars still fall on Alabama

 ToBnight she finally laid that hammer F♯down

 Without a C♯sound, in the F♯red dirt ground

>From the album "Red Dirt Girl" by Emmylou Harris GRACD 103

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

Any mistakes, e-mail me, and I will be duly embarrassed!