Shealee - Red Dirt Girl

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

Written by:
EMMYLOU HARRIS

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