Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
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tabbed by: Eric Lambrecht
check out my other tabs, too, if you want ;)


[Chords]
 ---Verse/Chor
           
e:--3---0---2-
b:--3---1---3-
G:--0---0---2-
D:--0---2---0-
A:--2---3-----
E:--3---------

us---  ----Fil
      
--2-----3---3-
--3-----3---3-
--4-----------
--4-----2-----
--2---------3-
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l----  --...Me
    
---3----3---3-
---3----3---3-
--------0---0-
---0----2---2-
--------2---3-
--------0-----

ridian--
 
---3----|
---3----|
---2----|
---0----|
--------|
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[Tip: I feel it sounds nice, if you play the full chords (Em7,Cadd9,D4) only in the meridian lines!]


        (Fill)
       



Me and my best

 friend Lillia

n 
        
And her blue t

ick hound dog 

Gideon,

Sittin on the 

front porch co

oling in the s

hade

Singin every s

ong the radio 

played

Waitin for the

 Alabama sun t

o go down
    
Two red dirt g

irls in a red 

dirt town
             
Me and Lillian

     

  (

           
Just across th

        
e line and a l

             
ittle southeas

             
t of Meridian.

   
 


 
    
She loved her 

brother I reme

mber back when

 
       
He was fixin u

p a '49 Indian
   
He told her "L

ittle sister, 

gonna ride the

 wind

Up around the 

moon and back 

again".
   
He never got f

arther than Vi

etnam,
      
I was standin'

 there with he

r when the tel

egram come
           
For Lillian.

  

           
Now he's lyin'

         
 somewhere abo

            
ut a million m

             
iles from Meri

 
dian.



              
She said there

     
's not much ho

pe for a red d

irt girl 
    
Somewhere out 

there is a gre

at big world
       
That's where I

'm bound
        
And the stars 

might fall on 

Alabama
    
But one of the

se days I'm go

nna swing 
          
My hammer down

              
Away from this

 
 red dirt town
              
I'm gonna make

             
 a joyful soun

   
d

        
    

    
She grew up ta

ll and she gre

w up thin

Buried that ol

d dog Gideon
     
By a crepe myr

tle bush at th

e back of the 

yard,
    
Her daddy turn

ed mean and he

r mama leaned 

hard

   Got in trou

ble with a boy

 from town

Figured that s

he might as we

ll settle down
             
So she dug rig

        
ht in

           
Across a red d

         
irt line just 

            
a little south

           
east of Meridi

an

            
She tried hard

              
 to love him b

             
ut it never di

d take
       
It was just an

other way for 

the heart to b

reak
       
So she learned

 to bend. 
    
But one thing 

they don't tel

l you about th

e blues when y

ou got'em
    
You keep on fa

lling cause th

ere ain't no b

ottom
      
There ain't no

 end. 

              
At least not f

                  
or Lillian



Nobody knows w

hen she starte

d her skid,
        
She was only t

wenty seven an

d she had five

 kids.

Could'a been t

he whiskey, co

uld'a been the

 pills, 

Could'a been t

he dream she w

as trying to k

ill.
          
But there won'

t be a mention

 in the news o

f the world 
          
About the life

 and the death

 of a red dirt

 girl
             
Named Lillian

  

           
Who never got 

         
any further ac

            
ross the line 

       
than Meridian.

        
Now the stars 

still fall on 

Alabama
  
Tonight she fi

nally laid 
            
That hammer do

wn
          
Without a soun

d
       
In the red dir

t ground