Letra de Red Dirt Girl (Live At Gibson Amphitheatre / June 28th 2006)
Me and my best friend Lillian And her blue tick hound dog Gideon Sitting on the front porch, cooling in the shade Singing every song the radio played Waiting for the Alabama sun to go down Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town, me and LillianJust across the line And a little southeast of meridianShe loved her brother, I remember back when He was fixing up a '49 Indian He told her, "Little sister, gonna ride the wind Up around the moon and back again" Never got farther than Vietnam I was standing there with her when the telegram come, for LillianNow he's lying somewhere About a million miles from meridianSaid there's not much hope for a red dirt girl Somewhere out there is the great big world That's where I'm boundAnd the stars might fall on Alabama But one of these days I'm gonna swing my hammer down Away from this red dirt town Gonna make a joyful soundShe grew up tall and she grew up thin Buried that old dog Gideon By a crepe myrtle bush at 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 inAcross a red dirt line Just a little Southeast of meridianYeah, 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 'bout the blues when you got 'em Keep on falling 'cause there ain't no bottom, there ain't no end Least not for LillianNobody 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 dreams she was trying to kill But there won't be a mention in the news of the world 'Bout the life and the death of a red dirt girl named LillianCould never got any further Across the line than meridianNow the stars still fall on Alabama Tonight she finally laid that hammer down Without a sound In the red dirt groundThank you