Red Dirt Girl chords by
Emmylou Harris

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Key: G major

Intro 1

G

G

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Em

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C

C

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D

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G

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Em

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C

C

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D

D

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G

G

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Verse 1
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Me and my best friend Lillian
And her blue tick hound dog Gideon
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Sittin' on the front porch coolin' in the shade
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Singin' every song the radio played
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Waitin' for the Alabama sun to go down
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Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town
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Me and Lillian
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Just across the line
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And a little southeast of Meridian

Verse 2
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She loved her brother I remember back when
He was fixin' up a '49 Indian
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He told her, "Little sister, gonna ride the wind
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Up around the moon and back again"
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He never got farther than Vietnam
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I was standin' there with her
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When the telegram come for Lillian
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Now he's lyin' somewhere
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About a million miles from Meridian

Chorus 1
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She said, "There's not much hope
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for a red dirt girl
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Somewhere out there is a great big world
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That's where I'm bound"
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"And the stars might fall on Ala ba ma
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But one of these days I'm gonna swing
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My hammer down"
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Away from this red dirt town
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I'm gonna make a joyful sound
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Verse 3
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She grew up tall and she grew up thin
Buried that old dog Gideon
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By a crepe myrtle bush
in the back of the yard
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Her daddy turned mean
and her mama leaned hard
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Got in trouble with a boy from town
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Figured that she might as well settle down
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So she dug right in
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Across a red dirt line
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Just a little south east of Meridian

Bridge 1
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Yes, she tried hard to love him
But it never did take
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Just another way for the heart to break
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So she learned to bend
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One thing they don't tell you about the blues
When you got 'em
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You keep on fallin'
'cause there ain't no bottom
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There ain't no end at least not for Lillian

Verse 4
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Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five kids
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Could have been the whiskey,
could have been the pills
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Could have been the dream
she was tryin' to kill
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But there won't be a mention
in the new little world
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About the life and the death of a red dirt girl
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Named Lillian
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C C 
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Who never got any farther
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Across the line than Meridian

Outro 1
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Now the stars still fall on Ala ba ma
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Tonight she finally laid
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That hammer down without a sound
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In the red dirt ground
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