Chords for Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (Live at Farm Aid 2005)
Tempo:
80.25 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
D
Em
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G] This is a song about the Red Dirt Girl.
[Em] [C] [G]
Me and my best friend Lillian
Blue tip, kind of dog, Gideon
[C] Sitting on the front porch, cooling [G] in the shade
Singing every song the radio plays
[D] Waiting for the Alabama sun [C] to go down
To the Red Dirt Girls and the [G] Red Dirt Town
Me and Lillian
[G] Just [Em] across the [D] line in a little [Bm] [C] southeast of Meridian
[Em] [G]
Loved her brother, I remember back when
He was fixing [C] up a [G] 49 Indian
[C] Told her little sister, gonna [Em] ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D]
Never got farther than Vietnam
[C] I was standing there with her when the telegram [G] come for Lillian
Now he's [Em] lying [D] somewhere about a [G] million [C] miles from Meridian
[G]
[D] Seven miles [G] [C]
there's a great big [G] world that's where I'm bound
And [D] the stars might fall [Em] [C]
one of these days
I'm gonna swing my [G] hammer down
[D] Away from this Red Dirt Town
Gonna [G] make a joyful sound
[G] She grew up tall and she grew up thin
Buried that old dog [C] Gideon
By a great myrtle bush at the back of the yard
[G] Her daddy turned mean, her mama leaned [D] hard
Gotten real [G] [C] eager that she might as well settle down
[G] So she dug right in
[C] Across [G] the [C] Red Dirt [D] line just a little [Bm] [C] southeast of Meridian
[G] Yeah, [Bm] she tried hard to love him but it never [C] did take
It's just another way for the heart to [G] break
So she learned to bend
But [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the [C] blues
When you got them, you keep on falling
Cause there [G] ain't no bottom, there ain't no end
At least [D] not for them
[G]
Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five [C] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [Em] pills
[G] Could have been the dream she was trying to [D] kill
But there won't be a mention in the news of [C] the world
Of the life and the death of a Red [G] Dirt girl named Lillian
Who never got any [D] further across [C] the line than Meridian
Now [G]
[D] the stars still fall and [C]
at night she finally laid [G] that hammer [C] down
[G]
[D] Without a sound [G]
in the Red Dirt ground
[C] [D] Mmmh, [C]
[G] mmmh, [C] mmmh
[D] [G] [N]
[Em] [C] [G]
Me and my best friend Lillian
Blue tip, kind of dog, Gideon
[C] Sitting on the front porch, cooling [G] in the shade
Singing every song the radio plays
[D] Waiting for the Alabama sun [C] to go down
To the Red Dirt Girls and the [G] Red Dirt Town
Me and Lillian
[G] Just [Em] across the [D] line in a little [Bm] [C] southeast of Meridian
[Em] [G]
Loved her brother, I remember back when
He was fixing [C] up a [G] 49 Indian
[C] Told her little sister, gonna [Em] ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D]
Never got farther than Vietnam
[C] I was standing there with her when the telegram [G] come for Lillian
Now he's [Em] lying [D] somewhere about a [G] million [C] miles from Meridian
[G]
[D] Seven miles [G] [C]
there's a great big [G] world that's where I'm bound
And [D] the stars might fall [Em] [C]
one of these days
I'm gonna swing my [G] hammer down
[D] Away from this Red Dirt Town
Gonna [G] make a joyful sound
[G] She grew up tall and she grew up thin
Buried that old dog [C] Gideon
By a great myrtle bush at the back of the yard
[G] Her daddy turned mean, her mama leaned [D] hard
Gotten real [G] [C] eager that she might as well settle down
[G] So she dug right in
[C] Across [G] the [C] Red Dirt [D] line just a little [Bm] [C] southeast of Meridian
[G] Yeah, [Bm] she tried hard to love him but it never [C] did take
It's just another way for the heart to [G] break
So she learned to bend
But [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the [C] blues
When you got them, you keep on falling
Cause there [G] ain't no bottom, there ain't no end
At least [D] not for them
[G]
Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five [C] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [Em] pills
[G] Could have been the dream she was trying to [D] kill
But there won't be a mention in the news of [C] the world
Of the life and the death of a Red [G] Dirt girl named Lillian
Who never got any [D] further across [C] the line than Meridian
Now [G]
[D] the stars still fall and [C]
at night she finally laid [G] that hammer [C] down
[G]
[D] Without a sound [G]
in the Red Dirt ground
[C] [D] Mmmh, [C]
[G] mmmh, [C] mmmh
[D] [G] [N]
Key:
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C
D
Em
Bm
G
C
D
[G] This is a song about the Red Dirt Girl. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Me and my best friend Lillian
Blue tip, kind of dog, Gideon
[C] Sitting on the front porch, cooling [G] in the shade
Singing every song the radio plays
[D] Waiting for the Alabama sun [C] to go down
To the Red Dirt Girls and the [G] Red Dirt Town
Me and Lillian
_ [G] Just _ _ [Em] across the [D] line in a little [Bm] [C] southeast of Meridian
_ [Em] _ [G] _ _ _ _
Loved her brother, I remember back when
He was fixing [C] up a [G] 49 Indian
[C] Told her little sister, gonna [Em] ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D]
Never got farther than Vietnam
[C] I was standing there with her when the telegram [G] come for Lillian
Now _ _ _ he's [Em] lying [D] somewhere about a [G] million [C] miles from Meridian
_ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] Seven miles _ [G] _ [C] _
there's a great big [G] world that's where I'm bound
And _ _ [D] the stars might fall [Em] _ [C]
one of these days
I'm gonna swing my [G] hammer down
_ [D] Away from this Red Dirt Town
_ Gonna _ [G] make a joyful sound
[G] _ She _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ grew up tall and she grew up thin
Buried that old dog [C] Gideon
By a great myrtle bush at the back of the yard
[G] Her daddy turned mean, her mama leaned [D] hard
Gotten real _ [G] [C] eager that she might as well settle down
[G] So she dug right in
[C] Across _ [G] _ the [C] Red Dirt [D] line just a little [Bm] [C] southeast of Meridian
_ [G] Yeah, _ _ [Bm] she tried hard to love him but it never [C] did take
It's just another way for the heart to [G] break
So she learned to bend
But _ _ [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the [C] blues
When you got them, you keep on falling
Cause there [G] ain't no bottom, there ain't no end
At least [D] not for them
_ _ _ _ _ [G]
Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five [C] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [Em] pills
[G] Could have been the dream she was trying to [D] kill
But there won't be a mention in the news of [C] the world
Of the life and the death of a Red [G] Dirt girl named Lillian
Who _ _ _ _ never got any [D] further across [C] the line than Meridian
Now [G] _
_ _ _ [D] the stars still fall and [C]
at night she finally laid [G] that hammer [C] down
[G] _
[D] Without a sound _ _ _ _ [G]
in the Red Dirt ground
_ [C] _ [D] Mmmh, [C] _
_ _ [G] mmmh, _ [C] mmmh
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Me and my best friend Lillian
Blue tip, kind of dog, Gideon
[C] Sitting on the front porch, cooling [G] in the shade
Singing every song the radio plays
[D] Waiting for the Alabama sun [C] to go down
To the Red Dirt Girls and the [G] Red Dirt Town
Me and Lillian
_ [G] Just _ _ [Em] across the [D] line in a little [Bm] [C] southeast of Meridian
_ [Em] _ [G] _ _ _ _
Loved her brother, I remember back when
He was fixing [C] up a [G] 49 Indian
[C] Told her little sister, gonna [Em] ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D]
Never got farther than Vietnam
[C] I was standing there with her when the telegram [G] come for Lillian
Now _ _ _ he's [Em] lying [D] somewhere about a [G] million [C] miles from Meridian
_ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] Seven miles _ [G] _ [C] _
there's a great big [G] world that's where I'm bound
And _ _ [D] the stars might fall [Em] _ [C]
one of these days
I'm gonna swing my [G] hammer down
_ [D] Away from this Red Dirt Town
_ Gonna _ [G] make a joyful sound
[G] _ She _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ grew up tall and she grew up thin
Buried that old dog [C] Gideon
By a great myrtle bush at the back of the yard
[G] Her daddy turned mean, her mama leaned [D] hard
Gotten real _ [G] [C] eager that she might as well settle down
[G] So she dug right in
[C] Across _ [G] _ the [C] Red Dirt [D] line just a little [Bm] [C] southeast of Meridian
_ [G] Yeah, _ _ [Bm] she tried hard to love him but it never [C] did take
It's just another way for the heart to [G] break
So she learned to bend
But _ _ [Bm] one thing they don't tell you about the [C] blues
When you got them, you keep on falling
Cause there [G] ain't no bottom, there ain't no end
At least [D] not for them
_ _ _ _ _ [G]
Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five [C] kids
Could have been the whiskey, could have been the [Em] pills
[G] Could have been the dream she was trying to [D] kill
But there won't be a mention in the news of [C] the world
Of the life and the death of a Red [G] Dirt girl named Lillian
Who _ _ _ _ never got any [D] further across [C] the line than Meridian
Now [G] _
_ _ _ [D] the stars still fall and [C]
at night she finally laid [G] that hammer [C] down
[G] _
[D] Without a sound _ _ _ _ [G]
in the Red Dirt ground
_ [C] _ [D] Mmmh, [C] _
_ _ [G] mmmh, _ [C] mmmh
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _