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Red Dirt Girl

Red Dirt Girl

Red Dirt Girl chords

by Emmylou Harris

Year: 2001

Genre: Country

Guitar
Tuning E A D G B E
Capo Fret 7
Transpose
EADGBE
Capo

C
Am
F
G
Dm
Em

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Chord Highlight

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 line

F

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

Vietnam

G

I was

F

standin' there

with her

When the telegram

come for

C

Lillian

Am

F

G

Now he's

Am

lyin' somewhere

F

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

girl 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

Alaba_

G

ma But

F

one of these

days I'm gonna

swing My

hammer

C

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 in

Am

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

Alaba_

G

ma To

F

night she finally

laid

That

C

hammer down

with

G

out a

sound

In the

C

red dirt

ground

Am

F

G

Am

F

G

Am

F

G

C

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