{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1476639,"song":"Red Dirt Girl","artist":"Emmylou Harris","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11267113-red-dirt-girl-chords-by-emmylou-harris/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1476639?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":193,"content":"[tab][Chords]\r\n ---Verse/Chorus---  ----Fill----  --...Meridian--\r\n    [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Bm[/ch]   [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]  [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]\r\ne:--3---0---2---2-----3---3----3----3---3----3----|\r\nb:--3---1---3---3-----3---3----3----3---3----3----|\r\nG:--0---0---2---4-------------------0---0----2----|\r\nD:--0---2---0---4-----2--------0----2---2----0----|\r\nA:--2---3-------2---------3---------2---3---------|\r\nE:--3-------------------------------0-------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Tip: I feel it sounds nice, if you play the full chords (Em7,Cadd9,D4) only in the meridian lines!]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch] (Fill)\r\n[ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nMe and my best friend Lillian [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd her blue tick hound dog Gideon,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nSittin on the front porch cooling in the shade[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nSingin every song the radio played[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nWaitin for the Alabama sun to go down[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTwo red dirt girls in a red dirt town[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]  (Fill)\r\nMe and Lillian[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em7[/ch]         [ch]Cadd9[/ch]     [ch]D4[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]        \r\nJust across the line and a little southeast of Meridian. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch]\r\n \r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe loved her brother I remember back when [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe was fixin up a '49 Indian[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe told her \"Little sister, gonna ride the wind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nUp around the moon and back again\".[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe never got farther than Vietnam,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI was standin' there with her when the telegram come[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]\r\nFor Lillian.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em7[/ch]       [ch]Cadd9[/ch]         [ch]D4[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]  \r\nNow he's lyin' somewhere about a million miles from Meridian.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]  \r\nShe said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSomewhere out there is a great big world[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat's where I'm bound[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the stars might fall on Alabama[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut one of these days I'm gonna swing [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy hammer down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAway from this red dirt town[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]G[/ch]             \r\nI'm gonna make a joyful sound[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]    \r\n[ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe grew up tall and she grew up thin[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nBuried that old dog Gideon[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBy a crepe myrtle bush at the back of the yard,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHer daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\n   Got in trouble with a boy from town[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nFigured that she might as well settle down[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]\r\nSo she dug right in[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em7[/ch]      [ch]Cadd9[/ch]       [ch]D4[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAcross a red dirt line just a little southeast of Meridian[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]                                   \r\nShe tried hard to love him but it never did take[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt was just another way for the heart to break[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo she learned to bend. [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBut one thing they don't tell you about the blues when you got'em[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere ain't no end. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAt least not for Lillian[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nNobody knows when she started her skid,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe was only twenty seven and she had five kids.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nCould'a been the whiskey, could'a been the pills, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nCould'a been the dream she was trying to kill.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut there won't be a mention in the news of the world [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAbout the life and the death of a red dirt girl[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Em7[/ch] [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]D4[/ch]\r\nNamed Lillian[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em7[/ch]     [ch]Cadd9[/ch]     [ch]D4[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWho never got any further across the line than Meridian.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow the stars still fall on Alabama[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTonight she finally laid [/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat hammer down[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWithout a sound[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the red dirt ground[/tab]","plain_text":"[Tip: I feel it sounds nice, if you play the full chords (Em7,Cadd9,D4) only in the meridian lines!]\n\n\nG     Em Cadd9 D4 (Fill)\nG     Em Cadd9 D4\nG\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nG\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEm7 Cadd9 D4  G    \nEm7 Cadd9 D4  G","chords":["G","C","D","Bm","Em7","Cadd9","D4","A","E","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Cadd9":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,0,3,0],"frets":[-1,3,2,0,3,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"Em7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,0,3,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,3,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}