- Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl 歌詞
- Emmylou Harris
- Me and my best friend
Lillian And her blue tick hound dog
Gideon, Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade
Singin every song the radio played
Waitin for 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 He told her
Little sister, gonna ride the wind
Up around the moon and back again' He never got farther than Vietnam, I was standin there with her when the telegram come For Lillian. Now hes lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian. She said theres not much hope for a red dirt girl Somewhere out there is a great big world Thats where Im bound And the stars might fall on Alabama But one of these days Im gonna swing My hammer down Away from this red dirt town Im gonna make a joyful sound She grew up tall and she grew up thin Buried that old dog Gideon By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard, Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard Got in trouble with a boy from town Figured that she might as well settle down So she dug right in Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian She tried hard to love him but it never did take It was just another way for the heart to break So she dug right in. But one thing they dont tell you about the blues When you got em You keep on falling cause there aint no bottom There aint know end. At least not for Lillian Nobody knowswhen she started her skid, She was only 27 and she had five kids. Coulda been the whiskey, Coulda been the pills, Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill. But there wont be a mention in the news of the world About the life and the death of a red dirt girl Names Lillian Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian. Now the stars still fall on Alabama Tonight she finally laid That hammer down Without a sound In the red dirt ground
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