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 Thats 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 no 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 farther 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
🎵
LRC歌词版本
[00:21.102]Me and my best friend Lillian
[00:23.725]And her blue tick hound dog Gideon,
[00:26.943]Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade
[00:29.898]Singin every song the radio played
[00:32.908]Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down
[00:35.652]Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town
[00:38.480]Me and Lillian
[00:44.548]Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian.
[00:53.579]She loved her brother
[00:55.058]I remember back when
[00:56.472]He was fixin up a '49 Indian
[00:59.520]He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind
[01:02.418]Up around the moon and back again"
[01:06.422]He never got farther than Vietnam,
[01:08.397]I was standin there with her when the telegram come for Lillian.
[01:16.836]Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian.
[01:26.133]She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl
[01:29.856]Somewhere out there is a great big world Thats where I'm bound
[01:38.069]And the stars might fall on Alabama But one of these days
[01:42.320]I'm gonna swing my hammer down
[01:46.562]Away from this red dirt town
[01:52.041]I'm gonna make a joyful sound
[02:07.591]She grew up tall and she grew up thin
[02:10.630]Buried that old dog Gideon
[02:13.585]By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard,
[02:16.448]Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
[02:19.773]Got in trouble with a boy from town
[02:22.466]Figured that she might as well settle down
[02:25.076]So she dug right in
[02:31.050]Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian
[02:40.162]She tried hard to love him but it never did take
[02:43.017]It was just another way for the heart to break so she learned to bend
[02:51.823]But one thing they don't tell you about the blues When you got em
[02:54.985]You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ain't no end.
[03:03.632]At least not for Lillian
[03:09.471]Nobody knows when she started her skid,
[03:12.788]She was only 27 and she had five kids.
[03:15.734]Coulda' been the whiskey, Coulda been the pills,
[03:18.642]Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill.
[03:21.749]But there won't be a mention in the news of the world
[03:24.615]About the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian
[03:33.330]Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian.
[03:42.327]Now the stars still fall on Alabama
[03:45.188]Tonight she finally laid that hammer down
[03:51.277]Without a sound
[03:57.132]In the red dirt ground
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 Thats 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 no 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 farther 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
🎵
LRC歌词版本
[00:21.102]Me and my best friend Lillian
[00:23.725]And her blue tick hound dog Gideon,
[00:26.943]Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade
[00:29.898]Singin every song the radio played
[00:32.908]Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down
[00:35.652]Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town
[00:38.480]Me and Lillian
[00:44.548]Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian.
[00:53.579]She loved her brother
[00:55.058]I remember back when
[00:56.472]He was fixin up a '49 Indian
[00:59.520]He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind
[01:02.418]Up around the moon and back again"
[01:06.422]He never got farther than Vietnam,
[01:08.397]I was standin there with her when the telegram come for Lillian.
[01:16.836]Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian.
[01:26.133]She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl
[01:29.856]Somewhere out there is a great big world Thats where I'm bound
[01:38.069]And the stars might fall on Alabama But one of these days
[01:42.320]I'm gonna swing my hammer down
[01:46.562]Away from this red dirt town
[01:52.041]I'm gonna make a joyful sound
[02:07.591]She grew up tall and she grew up thin
[02:10.630]Buried that old dog Gideon
[02:13.585]By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard,
[02:16.448]Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard
[02:19.773]Got in trouble with a boy from town
[02:22.466]Figured that she might as well settle down
[02:25.076]So she dug right in
[02:31.050]Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian
[02:40.162]She tried hard to love him but it never did take
[02:43.017]It was just another way for the heart to break so she learned to bend
[02:51.823]But one thing they don't tell you about the blues When you got em
[02:54.985]You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ain't no end.
[03:03.632]At least not for Lillian
[03:09.471]Nobody knows when she started her skid,
[03:12.788]She was only 27 and she had five kids.
[03:15.734]Coulda' been the whiskey, Coulda been the pills,
[03:18.642]Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill.
[03:21.749]But there won't be a mention in the news of the world
[03:24.615]About the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian
[03:33.330]Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian.
[03:42.327]Now the stars still fall on Alabama
[03:45.188]Tonight she finally laid that hammer down
[03:51.277]Without a sound
[03:57.132]In the red dirt ground