Tuning: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb

Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl ============================== tabbed by: Eric Lambrecht check out my other tabs, too, if you want ;) [Chords] ---Verse/Chorus--- ----Fill---- --...Meridian-- G C D Bm Em7 Cadd9 D4 Em7 Cadd9 D4 e:--3---0---2---2-----3---3----3----3---3----3----| b:--3---1---3---3-----3---3----3----3---3----3----| G:--0---0---2---4-------------------0---0----2----| D:--0---2---0---4-----2--------0----2---2----0----| A:--2---3-------2---------3---------2---3---------| E:--3-------------------------------0-------------| [Tip: I feel it sounds nice, if you play the full chords (Em7,Cadd9,D4) only in the meridian lines!] G Em Cadd9 D4 (Fill) G Em Cadd9 D4 G

^GMe and my best friend Lillian And her ^Gblue tick hound dog Gideon, ^CSittin on the front porch cooling in the shade ^GSingin every song the radio played ^DWaitin for the Alabama sun to go down Two ^Cred dirt girls in a red dirt town G Em7 Cadd9 D4 (Fill) Me and Lillian

Just ^Em7across the l^Cadd9ine and a ^D4little southeast of Mer^Cidian. G

She ^Gloved her brother I remember back when He was ^Gfixin up a '49 Indian He ^Ctold her "Little sister, gonna ride the wind ^GUp around the moon and back again". He ^Dnever got farther than Vietnam, I was ^Cstandin' there with her when the telegram come For ^GLillian.^Em7 ^Cadd9 ^D4

Now he's ^Em7lyin' some^Cadd9where about a ^D4million miles from Me^Cridian. G

She said there's ^Dnot much hope for a red dirt girl Some^Cwhere out there is a great big world That's ^Gwhere I'm bound And the ^Dstars might fall on Alabama But ^Cone of these days I'm gonna swing My hammer ^Gdown

Away from this ^Dred dirt town I'm gonna make a ^Gjoyful sound

Em7 Cadd9 D4 G Em7 Cadd9 D4 G

She ^Ggrew up tall and she grew up thin ^GBuried that old dog Gideon By a ^Ccrepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard, Her ^Gdaddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard ^D Got in trouble with a boy from town ^CFigured that she might as well settle down So she ^Gdug right in ^Em7 ^Cadd9 ^D4

Across a ^Em7red dirt ^Cadd9line just a ^D4little southeast of Mer^Cidian She ^Bmtried hard to love him but it never did take It was ^Cjust another way for the heart to break So she ^Glearned to bend. But ^Bmone thing they don't tell you about the blues when you got'em You ^Ckeep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ^Gain't no end.

At least not for ^DLillian ^G

^GNobody knows when she started her skid, She was ^Gonly twenty seven and she had five kids. ^CCould'a been the whiskey, could'a been the pills, ^GCould'a been the dream she was trying to kill. But there ^Dwon't be a mention in the news of the world About the ^Clife and the death of a red dirt girl Named ^GLillian ^Em7 ^Cadd9 ^D4

Who never ^Em7got any ^Cadd9further ac^D4ross the line than Me^Cridian. Now the ^Dstars still fall on Alabama To^Cnight she finally laid That hammer ^Gdown Without a ^Dsound In the ^Gred dirt ground

Emmylou Harris - Red dirt girl