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Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (with LYRICS)

- “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” A wonderful but immensely sad & tragic ‘fictional’ song 'Red Dirt Girl' written & sung by Emmylou Harris about a young girl from a small American rural town Meridian where all her hopes & dreams went no further than the quiet little rural town where she was born & raised, Meridian. She loved her brother who told his little sister "gonna ride the wind, up around the moon & back again" but he never got farther than Vietnam, never to return to his home rural town of Meridian. She marries extremely young, having 5 children by 27yo to a young local man whom she didn’t love, then ultimately the heavy burden & responsibilities she was carrying for someone so young unfortunately became all too much for her, with her final crutch being the whiskey & pills, thus tragically leading to her death & thus she lays to rest in the cemetery grounds of her red dirt hometown of Meridian. A fictional story that could possibly happen to any young person, especially when brought up in a remote far away rural town anywhere in the world, with family expectation is to stay & raise a family in their town of birth being foremost in the families interests. Emmylou Harris's explanation behind lyrics to Red Dirt Girl - "I am very, very inspired by the sound of words & the names of places are so melodic & beautiful," she said. "I was passing through Meridian on my way down to record in New Orleans & that's what started it." "But what really took it over the edge for me was on a night off in New Orleans we went to see Boys Don't Cry," Emmylou continued. "It unnerved me, not only because of the violence & homophobia, but also because of the underlying theme of how trapped those young people were. We all come into this world with so much potential & so many dreams. Who knows why some people escape & other people don't? The key idea is in the lyric, 'There won't be any mentions on The News of the World.'" Emmylou told the story of the song to American Songwriter magazine: "I had driven to New Orleans with my dog Bonaparte & passed a sign for Meridian & I started making rhymes in my head. So I had this rhyme scheme but I didn't know what it was about. You get crushes on words & then the rhymes come. Anyways, right after I got there, I went to see the movie Boys Don't Cry. This story about the lost lives of these young people with nowhere to go & it turns into such negative things …" "I've had this incredibly blessed life, but I created this character who'd had all of these hopes … and I just made this story up inspired by my remembrances of the south. I also imposed the lives of these kids from Boys Don't Cry. Who knows where these songs come from? It's such a mystery to me. Sometimes, I think, 'God, I really wrote that?'" A stunning, sad song, about everyday life in America.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl - LYRICS Me and my best friend Lillian And her blue tick hound dog Gideon Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade Singin every song the radio played Waitin 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 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 not much hope for a red dirt girl Somewhere out there is a 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 I'm gonna make a joyful sound 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 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 But one thing they don't tell you about the blues when you got em You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ain't know end At 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 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 Tonight she finally laid that hammer down Without a sound In the red dirt ground