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DMe and my best friend Lillian
DAnd her blue tick hound dog Gideon
GSittin on the front porch cooling in the shade
DSingin every song the radio played
AWaitin for the Alabama sun to go down
Two Gred dirt girls in a red dirt town
Me and DLillian
Just Bmacross the line and a Alittle southeast of MeriGdian D
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
She said there's Anot much hope for a red dirt girl
SomewGhere out there is a great big world
Thats Dwhere I'm bound
And the Astars might fall on Alabama
But Gone of these days I'm gonna swing
My hammer Ddown
Away from this Ared dirt town
I'm gonna make a joyful Dsound
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
She F#mtried hard to love him but it never did take
GIt was just another way for the heart to break
So she learned to Dbend
But one tF#mhing they don't tell you about the blues when you got em
You Gkeep on falling cause there ain't no bottom
There Dain't no end
At least not for ALillian
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
Named Lillian
Who never got any further across the line than Meridian
Now the stars still fall on Alabama
The night she finally laid that hammer down
Without a sound
In the red dirt ground
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