Red Dirt Girl - Live

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 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 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 Lillian
 Now he's lying somewhere
 About a million miles from meridian
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 Said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl
 Somewhere out there is the 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
 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 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 in
 Across a red dirt line
 Just a little Southeast of meridian
 Yeah, 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 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 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 Lillian
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 Could never got any further
 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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 Thank you