Chords for Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (Real Live Roadrunning | Official Live Video)

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ Me and my best friend Lillian
And her blue tick calendar giddy
[C] Sitting on the round porch
[G] Cooling in the shade
Singing every song the radio played
[D] Waiting for the Alabama sun to [G] go down
[C] Two red dirt girls in a [G] red dirt town
Me and Lillian
Just _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] across the line
[D] In a little southeast [C] of Meridian
She [G] _ _ _
_ loved her brother
I remember back when
He was fixing up a 49 Indian
[C] He told her little sister
Gonna ride the [G] wind
Up around the moon and back again
[D] Never got farther than me [G] and Lillian
[C] And they went through
One telegram [G] convoy late
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _
Now he's lying somewhere
[D] About a million [Bm] miles [C] from Meridian _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] Standing on my _
_ [C] shoulder
In the great big world
[G] That's where I'm bound
And _ _ _ [D] the stars in my _
_ [C] eyes
And when they swing [G] my hammer down _
Away from [D] this red dirt town
Gonna _ _ make [G] a joyful sound
[C] She _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ grew up tall and she grew up thin
Carried that old dog [C] Gideon
By a craved little bush
At the back of [G] the yard
Her daddy turned mean
And her mama [D] leaned hard
Got in trouble with a boy from [G] town
[C] Figured that she might as well [G] settle down
So she dug right in _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ [Em] Across the red dirt line
[D] Just a little southeast [C] of Meridian
_ _ [G] _ _ _
[Bm] Yeah she tried hard to love him
But it never did take
[C] It was just another wave of the heart to [G] break
So she learned to bend _ _ _ _
[Bm] One thing they don't tell you about the blues
When you [C] gotta keep on ballin'
Cause there ain't no [G] bottom
There ain't no end _ _ _ _
[D] Least not for living _ _ _ _
_ [G] Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had [C] five kids
Could've been the whiskey
Could've been [G] the pills
Could've been the dreams
She was trying to kill
But [D] there won't be a mention in the news
Of [C] the death of a red dirt girl [G] named Lily
Who _ [C] _ _
[G] _ [Em] never got any further
[D] Across [Bm] the line [C] than Meridian
And _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] _ lay that [G] hammer down
_ _ [D] Without a sound _ _ _
_ In [G] the red dirt ground
_ [C]
Ah, [G] _ _ _ [C] [G] ah, _ _
[C] [G] ah _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Thank you
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