Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
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tabbed by: Eric Lambrecht
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[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
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 Em7 Cadd9 D4
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
Em7 Cadd9 D4 G
Em7 Cadd9 D4 G
G
She grew up tall and she grew up thin
G
Buried that old dog Gideon
C
By a crepe myrtle bush at 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 Em7 Cadd9 D4
So she dug right in
Em7 Cadd9 D4 C
Across a red dirt line just a little southeast of 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 learned to bend.
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 no 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
Could'a been the whiskey, could'a been the pills,
G
Could'a 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 Em7 Cadd9 D4
Named Lillian
Em7 Cadd9 D4 C
Who never got any further 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
