Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl ============================== check out my other tabs, too, if you want ;) (Chords) ---Verse/Chorus--- ----Fill---- --...Meridian-- GCDBECDECD4d9 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) GECD4d9 G G Me and my best friend Lillian G And her blue tick hound dog Gideon, C Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade G Singin every song the radio played D Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down C Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town G Em7 Cadd9 D4 (Fill) Me and Lillian Em7 Cadd9 D4 C Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian. G G She loved her brother I remember back when G He was fixin up a '49 Indian C He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind G Up around the moon and back again" D He never got farther than Vietnam, C I was standin there with her when the telegram come G D4dd9 For Lillian. Em7 Cadd9 D4 C Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian. G D She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl C Somewhere out there is a great big world G That's where I'm bound D And the stars might fall on Alabama C But one of these days I'm gonna swing G My hammer down D Away from this red dirt town G I'm gonna make a joyful sound ECDGd9 ECDGd9 G She grew up tall and she grew up thin G Buried that old dog Gideon C By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard, G Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard D Got in trouble with a boy from town C Figured that she might as well settle down G D4dd9 So she dug right in Em7 Cadd9 D4 C Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian Bm She tried hard to love him but it never did take C It was just another way for the heart to break G So she dug right in. Bm But one thing they don't tell you about the blues when you got'em C You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom G There ain't know end. D G At least not for Lillian G Nobody knows when she started her skid, G She was only twenty seven and she had five kids. C Coulda' been the whiskey,Coulda been the pills, G Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill. D But there won't be a mention in the news of the world C About the life and the death of a red dirt girl G D4dd9 Name's Lillian Em7 Cadd9 D4 C Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian. D Now the stars still fall on Alabama C Tonight she finally laid G That hammer down D Without a sound G In the red dirt ground