Emmylou Harris - Red dirt girl

^F#Me 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 ac^F#ross the line and a ^C#little southeast of Me^Bridian

^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 Me^Bridian

She said "The^C#re's not much hope for a red dirt girl Some^Bwhere 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 Me^Bridian

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 a^C#cross the line than Me^Bridian

Now the ^C#stars still fall on Alabama To^Bnight she finally laid that hammer ^F#down Without a ^C#sound, in the ^F#red dirt ground