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 Lillian

Just across the line

And a little southeast of meridian

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

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

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

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

Thank you