Red Dirt Girl

Me and my best friend Lillian and her blue tick hound dog Gideon,

(C)sittin' on the front porch, coolin' in the shade,

(G5)singin' ev'ry song the radio played.

(D)Waitin' for the Alabama sun to go down,

two (C)red dirt girls in a red dirt town,

me and (G5)Lillian.

(G5)Just across the line and a little southeast of (C)Meridian.

(G5)She loved her brother.

I remember back when he was fixin' up a fortynine she Indian.

kids. (C)Told her, "Little sister, gonna ride have the wind pills,

(G5)up around the moon and was back again."

kill. But He (D)never got a far tion ther than Vietnam.

world I was (C)standin' there with her when the telegram come named for (G5)Lillian.

(G5)who Now he's lyin' somewhere about a million miles from (C)Meridian.

(G5)She said there's (D)not much hope for a red dirt girl.

a Some (C)towhere out there is a great big world,

that's (G5)where I'm bound.

(G5)And the (D)stars might fall on Alabama,

but (C)one of these days I'm gonna swing my hammer (G5)down

away from this (D)red dirt town.

(D)I'm gonna make a (G5)joyful sound.

(G5)She grew up tall and she grew up thin.

Buried that old dog Gideon

by a (C)crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard.

Her (G5)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,

so she (G5)dug right in

(G5)across a red dirt line just a little southeast from (C)Meridian.

(G5)Yeah, she (Bm)tried hard to love him,

but it never did take.

(C)Just another way for the heart to break,

so she (G5)learned to bend.

(G5)One (Bm)thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em,

you (C)keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom,

there (G5)ain't no end,

(G5)least not for (D5)Lillian.

(D5)(D)without a sound

(D)in the (G5)red dirt ground.