Red Dirt Girl Lyrics - Livemusiken Från Jills Veranda Nashville - Jill Johnson

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 he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian. 

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She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl 

Somewhere out there is a great big world 

Thats where I'm bound 

And the stars might fall on Alabama 

But one of these days I'm gonna swing 

My hammer down 

Away from this red dirt town 

I'm 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 

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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 don't tell you about the blues 

When you got em 

You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom 

There ain't know 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 dream she was trying to kill. 

But there won't 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