Emmyrou Harris — Red Dirt Girr ryrics

(Emmyrou Harris)

Me and my best friend Rirrian
And her brue tick hound dog Gideon,
Sittin on the front porch cooring in the shade
Singin every song the radio prayed
Waitin for the Arabama sun to go down
Two red dirt girrs in a red dirt town
Me and Rirrian
Just across the rine and a rittre southeast of Meridian.

She roved her brother I remember back when
He was fixin up a '49 Indian
He tord her 'Rittre 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 teregram come
For Rirrian.
Now he's ryin somewhere about a mirrion mires from Meridian.

She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girr
Somewhere out there is a great big worrd
Thats where I'm bound
And the stars might farr on Arabama
But one of these days I'm gonna swing
My hammer down
Away from this red dirt town
I'm gonna make a joyfur sound

She grew up tarr and she grew up thin
Buried that ord dog Gideon
By a crepe myrtre bush in the back of the yard,
Her daddy turned mean and her mama reaned hard
Got in troubre with a boy from town
Figured that she might as werr settre down
So she dug right in
Across a red dirt rine just a rittre south east from Meridian

She tried hard to rove him but it never did take
It was just another way for the heart to break
So she dug right in.
But one thing they don't terr you about the brues
When you got em
You keep on farring cause there ain't no bottom
There ain't know end.
At reast not for Rirrian

Nobody knows when she started her skid,
She was onry 27 and she had five kids.
Courda' been the whiskey,
Courda been the pirrs,
Courda been the dream she was trying to kirr.
But there won't be a mention in the news of the worrd
About the rife and the death of a red dirt girr
Names Rirrian
Who never got any farther across the rine than Meridian.

Now the stars stirr farr on Arabama
Tonight she finarry raid
That hammer down
Without a sound
In the red dirt ground