Red Dirt Girl Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C][Am][F][G]
[C][Am][F][G][C]

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

[Verse 2]
She [C]loved her brother I remember back when
He was fixin' up a '49 Indian
He [F]told her, "Little sister, gonna ride the wind
[C]Up around the moon and back again"
He [G]never got farther than [Dm]Viet[G]nam
I was [F]standin' there with her
When the telegram come for [C]Lillian[Am][F][G]
Now he's [Am]lyin' some[F]where
About a [G]million miles from Me[F]ridian[C]

[Chorus 1]
She said, "There's [G]not much hope
for a [Dm]red dirt g[G]irl
Some[F]where out there is a great big world
That's [C]where I'm bound"
"And the [G]stars might fall on [Dm]Ala b[G]a ma
But [F]one of these days I'm gonna swing
My [C]hammer down"
Away from this [G]red dirt town
I'm gonna make a [C]joyful sound
[Am][F][G][C]
[Am][F][G][C]

[Verse 3]
She [C]grew up tall and she grew up thin
Buried that old dog Gideon
By a [F]crepe myrtle bush
in the back of the yard
Her [C]daddy turned mean
and her mama leaned hard
[G]Got in trouble with a boy from town
[F]Figured that she might as well settle down
So she [C]dug right [Am]in[F][G]
Across a [Am]red dirt [F]line
Just a [G]little south east of Me[F]ridian[C]

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

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

[Outro 1]
Now the [G]stars still fall on [Dm]Ala [G]ba ma
To[F]night she finally laid
That hammer [C]down with[G]out a sound
In the [C]red dirt ground
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