Red Dirt Girl
Shealee
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Red Dirt Girl Me and my best friend Lillian And her blue tick hound dog Gideon Sittin' on the front porch soaking up the shade Singing every song that the radio played Waiting on the Alabama sun to go down Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town Me and Lillian Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian She loved her brother I remember back when He was fixin' up a 49' Indian Said little sister gonna ride the wind Up around the moon and then back again He never got further than Vietnam I was standing there with her when the telegram come for Lillian Now he's lying somewhere about a million miles from Meridian No there ain't no hope for a red dirt Somewhere out there there's a great big world That's where I'm bound If the stars still fall on Alabama One of these days I'm gonna lay my hammer down Gonna make a joyful sound Away from this red dirt ground She grew up tall she grew up thin Buried that old dog Gideon By a crepe- myrtle bush in the back of the yard Daddy turned mean and her Momma leaned hard Got in some trouble with a boy from town Figured that she might as well settle it down So she dug right in Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian She tried hard to love him but it never did take Was just another way for her heart to break So she learned to mend One thing they don't tell you about the blues when you got em You keep on falling cuz there aint no bottom no there aint no end No there aint no end At least not for Lillian Nobody knows when she started her skid She was only 27 and she had five kids Coulda been the whiskey Coulda been the pills Coulda been the dreams that she was trying to kill There won't be a mention in the news of the world About the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian Who never got any further across the line than Meridian No there aint no hope for a red dirt girl Somewhere out there there's a great big world That's where I'm bound If the stars still fall on Alabama Tonight she finally laid her hammer down Without a sound in that red dirt ground
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Written by: EMMYLOU HARRIS
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