Red Dirt Girl

Me and my best friend Lillian
 And her blue tick hound dog Gideon
 Sittin' on the front porch coolin' 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
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 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
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 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
 That's 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
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 She grew up tall and she grew up thin
 Buried that old dog Gideon
 By a crêpe myrtle bush in the back of the yard
 Her dad 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 southeast of Meridian
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 Yes, she tried hard to love him
 But it never did take
 It was just another way for the heart to break
 So she learned to bend
 One thing they don't tell you about the blues
 When you got 'em
 You keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom
 There ain't no end, at least not for Lillian
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 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 tryin' 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
 Named 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