Chords for Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler "Red dirt girl" 2006 Verona [FM audio]

_ _ _ [D] But this song was written sort of inspired by the first place I lived where I was born in Alabama
_ some of my memories and
_ [Eb] That area down there, especially all that [G] red dirt _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Me and my best friend _
Blue
_ _ [C] Sitting on the front porch cool and in the [G] shade
_ Radio play
[D] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ Red dirt [G] town me and Lily in _ just _ _ _ [Em] across the [D] line in a little South Eastern
She _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ loved your brother I remember back when he was fixing up a 49 and in
He told [C] her little sister gonna ride the [G] wind up around the moon and back again
He never [D] got father me and [C] gone and there with her when the telegram [G] come Lily Lily _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] Now he's lying somewhere [D] about a million [C] miles from her
She _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] said there's not much
_ _ [C] _ There's a great big [G] world.
That's where I'm now _ _ _ _ _
[D] And the stars _ _ _ [C] these days I'm gonna swing my [G] hammer down
_ away [D] from this red dirt town
_ _ _ _ Gonna [G] make a joyful sound _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ She
Grew up tall and she grew up thin
Very that old
Gideon [C] by a great man.
Oh, but the bag of the [G] yard her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
Got in trouble with the [D] boy from town
[C] Because you might as well settle [G] down.
So she dug right in _ _ _ _
[D] _ Across the red dirt line just a little Southeast [G] of my
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[Bm] Here she tried hard to love him, but it never did take it was just another way for the heart to [G] break _ _ _ _ _ _
_ One [Bm] thing they don't tell you about the blues when you gotta [C] keep on falling
_ [G] Please _ _ _
_ _ _ Please
[D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Nobody knows when she started skid.
She was only 27 and she had five kids
[C] But in the whiskey could have been [G] the pills could have been the dream
He was trying to kill [D] but there won't be a mention in the news
of [C] a red [G] girl name
Who _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] never got any [D] further across the [C] line
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] Hammer down _ _ [D] without a son _ _ _ _ [G] in the river
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_ _ _ Last time I was here
_ _ _ And I had good fun [D] singing it so I'm gonna sing it again, [D] but I'm gonna introduce the
the band to
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One of the world's great pianists and
[F] _ _ [Gb]
Organists and [G] now he's a [Ab] starring on his accordion this evening [B] also
[E] Just I think it's an Italian Matt
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_ _ _ _ And one of the world's finest little players is mandolin player sure Duncan _ _ _ _
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_ [Gbm] One of the world's finest [Ab] bass players.
They're all there in the world's finest.
They're all the [Gb] world's best players make me a very [N] lucky guy
_ _ And he brings his large instrument to Verona this evening Glenn Moore _ _ _
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_ Mike and
_ [N] I _ _
_ Missed I _ _ plays _ _ _ _ _ _ _ many _ [A] instruments.
Well, they don't play any [N] instruments except for me _
[Ab] _ _ [D] Except for that Emmy [Eb] plays guitar I play guitar [E] and that's that's what
these [D] guys
They play million [G] instruments between and they play [Eb] 1500 instruments
Tonight each but he's gonna play his [D] bazooka on this tune Richard
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[Eb] Ridiculous
_ Organic [Gb] was piano he plays bass plays drums
[G] _ _ ukulele ukulele [N] ukulele plays
Lap steel guitar he plays the field.
That's right.
He plays tennis _ _
[Gbm] Fix your bicycle
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Dr.
Stretch _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Yeah, you mean how about it baby how about