Chords for Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl - 2006 - Mark Knopfler

[B] childhood, [C] _ [D] _ [G] where I came from, which is the [B]
state of [Ab] Alabama.
_ [N] There's a lot of red dirt down there.
[Dm] _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ This is [Bm] something, a story [Ebm] I made up.
[G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
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_ Me and my best friend _ Lillian interviewed to the Cowboy Dog Games
[C] Sitting on the front porch cooling in the [G] shade
Singing every song on the radio
_ _ [D] Waiting for the album to send
And I'm going to [C] a red dirt house in a red dirt town [G] near the lake
_ _ Just _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ across the line [Bm] in a little _ southeast of [C]
me _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Oh, there I _ ran into this picture of a _ 49er
_ [C] Told her little sister, gonna ride on _ _ [G] the moon and back
_ [D] And every time I'm _ _ gone, [C] I'm always standing there
With the Cowboy Dog I'm [G] calling _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ Now he's lying somewhere about a [Bm] billion miles from [C] me
_ There's _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ a great big world [G] that's where I'm bound
And _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] I still might _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ find this ring of mine [G] where it died _ _
Away from this [D] red dirt town _ _ _ _ _
_ Gonna _ _ [G] make a joyful sound _ _
_ She _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _
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_ _ grew up tall and she grew up thin
Carry that old log in _ [C] by the graver bush of the valley
_ [G] Daddy turned mean and her mama was on
[D] I'm from the boys' town
[C] Figured that she might as well [G] settle down
So she dug right _ in
_ _ Across _ _ _ _ _
the red dirt line just [D] a little southeast of [C] me _ _
There [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] she tried on one but it never did take
It [C] was just another way for the heart to break
So she wanted a [G] better _ roof _ _
One _ _ _ _ [Bm] thing they don't tell you about the movies [D] when you tell [C] it
Keep on falling, there ain't nobody [G] on the rain, oh yeah _ _
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These stars [D] are blue _
_ _ _ Nobody _
_ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five kids
[C] Could have been a whiskey, could have been a toast
[G] Could have been the dreams she was trying to kiss
But there [D] won't be a mention in the news of a girl
[C] I _ love, a red dirt girl named [G] Emily _ _
We _ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Em] never got any further [D] across the line [G] than
_ _ [C] Without _
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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[D] a _ sound _ _
_ _ In _ _ _ [G] the rear of her _ mind
_ [Em] _
[C] Ah, _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ ah, [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ ah
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