{"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":1470278,"song":"Red Dirt Girl","artist":"Emmylou Harris","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1470278-red-dirt-girl-chords-by-emmylou-harris/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1470278?type=chord","rating":4.7168,"votes":84,"content":"Red Dirt Girl  written by  Emmylou Harris\r\n\r\nThis tab is accurate with regard to the way Emmylou Harris plays it in her live \r\nshows.  I watched several of her performances on YouTube and she plays open cords \r\nG, C, and D with just a few embellishments.\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch]\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' coolin' in the shade[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nSingin' every song that 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]\r\nMe and Lillian[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nJust across the line and a little southeast of Meridian[/tab]\r\n\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]\r\nFor Lillian[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow he's lyin' somewhere about a million miles from Meridian[/tab]\r\n\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]                                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the stars might fall on Alabama, but one of these days[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm gonna swing my hammer down[/tab]\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\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\nGot 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]\r\nSo she dug right in[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAcross a red dirt line just a little southeast of Meridian[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/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 a heart to break[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo she learned to bend[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut one thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere ain't no end, at 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 27 and she had 5 kids[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nCoulda' been the whiskey, coulda been the pills[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nCoulda been the dream she was tryin' 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]                                                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAbout the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                 [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWho never got any farther 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]                                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe night she finally laid that hammer down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWithout a sound, in the red dirt ground[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n>From the album \"Red Dirt Girl\" by Emmylou Harris GRACD 103\r\n\r\nChords transcribed by Richard Kolarik\r\n\r\nrichard.kolarik@virgin.net\r\n\r\n\r\nMalcolm Burn    bass, electric guitar, drum box programming\r\nEmmylou Harris  vocal, acoustic guitar\r\nEthan Johns     omnichord\r\nDaryl Johnson   percussion, bass pedals\r\nBuddy Miller    electric guitar","plain_text":"Red Dirt Girl  written by  Emmylou Harris\n\nThis tab is accurate with regard to the way Emmylou Harris plays it in her live \nshows.  I watched several of her performances on YouTube and she plays open cords \nG, C, and D with just a few embellishments.\n\nG\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n>From the album \"Red Dirt Girl\" by Emmylou Harris GRACD 103\n\nChords transcribed by Richard Kolarik\n\nrichard.kolarik@virgin.net\n\n\nMalcolm Burn    bass, electric guitar, drum box programming\nEmmylou Harris  vocal, acoustic guitar\nEthan Johns     omnichord\nDaryl Johnson   percussion, bass pedals\nBuddy Miller    electric guitar","chords":["G","C","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}