Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (Lyrics on screen)

[@informasibagus1847]

Oh man... I'm a 35 years young Indonesian. I'm far away from you but I'm stuck in this music. I'm stuck in the feeling of American music. I even got a new banjo to learn. Love from Indonesia.

[@rgarlin1201]

I hope you find your voice, and style, on your new venture with the banjo. Greetings from U.S.A.

[@lnl3237]

Informasi bagus Music knows no boundaries. Music emanates from the human heart. Come to America one day and bring your banjo!

[@leshall3110]

Willie was once Quoted as saying there’s just two types of men in this world. Those who love Emmylou and those that have never met her. Love ya Ms.Emmy, ty for your contributions to American Red Dirt

[@hareball]

@@leshall3110 I could listen to Emmylou sing the phonebook

[@Dave-ty2qp]

Best of luck on your venture with the banjo. I remember as a young man in Japan the first time I heard the sound of a Koto. There is something in a string instrument that is just magic.

[@agapegracejohn316]

Buried my black cat Bandit to this song in 2017. Rescued her as an emaciated kitten in the Texas woods in 2008. She was all bones but had a will to live. My other cat rejected / threatened her, so I had to give her to a friend. She lived an “orphaned” life until she died at only 9 yrs old. I told my friend that I would take her “back home”. We covered her with red dirt that day as Emmy Lou was singing in the background. My tears just dripped and dripped, until the red was a dark moist brown. 😿🙏🏻🤍

[@rjwintl]

Thank you for rescuing Bandit … she got 9 years of life because of your heart ❤️

[@rainieresguerra7486]

The characters Emmylou painted are so painfully vivid that you could almost touch and feel their pain. What a song! Wonderful piece of music by a wonderful artist.

[@locuacidadsindiluir1696]

Yes! It is the MAGIC OF MUSIC at its best!

[@babsdolson]

Amazing how she paints a picture & creates a whole world in one song!

[@tornadospin9]

It truly is remarkable. She is incredibly underrated

[@tomtorrell8019]

This is a brilliant song Emmy wrote. She's written others, but this one is my favorite. I never lived a red dirt life but I understand where she's coming from. I know some people who have lived that life. Nobody can say Emmylou can't write music. I have also enjoyed her fantastic voice over many years going back to the 70's.

[@agapegracejohn316]

Willie once said: “There’s only 2 types of men in the world …. Those that love Emmylou and those that never met her.” I love this woman. Always have. Always will. 🌹🤍

[@absisfabs873]

This song is great I was speechless when I first heard it. The story is so hard hit.

[@sueballew570]

I have listened to this song 5 times in a row sometimes, it is that good.

[@dougllasgreene4014]

I'm kind of a red dirt guy myself. I've had blue tick hounds, pick up trucks and lost loves. Emmy Lou is my fav but this is the saddest damn song ever.

[@rokukou]

Dougllas Greene I was born in Germany, but I think my heart was born in America. I wish I could live a life like yours. The country in Germany is just not the same.

[@vindaloovince2194]

Good old boy👍

[@liammurphy2725]

It made me cry way back when and still the tears fall... for Lillian.

[@scottmurphy5676]

This song makes my tear up every time I hear it. This is the part of the country from where I am from and I know what life is like there,

[@rebrebekah]

Has the same effect on me too - my most played song and I don't think I could ever get bored of it.

[@kerrystephens6182]

Me too, grew up in Clarke county Alabama

[@Dave-ty2qp]

Many of us know the social pressures of growing up in that beautiful state with few opportunity's to succeed, and wind up leaving. Fortunately I made it further than Viet Nam, and had a wonderful life. As did Emmylou, but we still miss the beauty. I was raised in Etawah county.

[@TooStinkinFine]

Alabama gal here. Born and raised on the Chattahoochee River. Still here.... Have been listening to Emmylou for many years..

[@hareball]

@@Dave-ty2qp I was born in Etowah county, but my dad worked for the government and thankfully got us out of Gadsden. Almost all my cousins who didn't join the military are still there and have done very little with their lives. We went to Mobile and then to Huntsville. Both of which are cities of opportunity. I have done well in life, but will never forget my life in Alabama.

[@mattthompson9826]

The artistry in both writing and performing of this song is beyond brilliant. One for the ages.

[@davidbarnett1740]

I was never a fan of Emmylou Harris. Mainly because I never listened to any of her stuff. This came up while I was listening to Iris Dement and I was just floored. A late life conversion, but not too late ... I'm still alive.

[@rainieresguerra7486]

david barnett You have a lot of catching up to do. Been listening to Emmylou almost everyday for quite some time now and i still couldn't get enough.

[@Jamesyahyah]

Know what you mean

[@54MURAI]

Be thankful you got here now...!

[@1rivia]

Yes, I am 46 (and brazilian) and falled in love with this stuff just because I am going to apply to ship cruises as a musician and they are asking for country repertoire. So I am hooked on country music! What a treasure!

[@jondoe888i]

This was a dark departure for her, and it's stunning. Producer Daniel Lanois is playing that searing guitar! May I also suggest her concept album, 'the ballad of Sally Rose'. Her poorest selling album is my favorite! Semi-dark. But I've also loved her since day one. Less in the 90's, when she was sliding into the country market.

[@wandafrye3681]

I had never heard of this tune until my granddaughter and I just "stumbled across" it playing anything we could get our hands on by Emmylou!

[@purpleroseentertainment8996]

The melody of this song actually came to her in a dream

[@emmabbyreborns341]

This song always gets me. You can see every verse come to life in vivid color and detail.

[@MindFlowersDotNet]

Love survives and rises again. Thank you Emmylou.

[@buchananjudith]

very poignant lyrics...hauntingly beautiful song by a beautiful singer...there will only be one Emmylou Harris.

[@hareball]

And beautiful woman. She gets prettier the more she ages.

[@leewhite8355]

The most beautiful song I’ve ever heard in my life ,Emmylou is masterful with the words. ❤️❤️👏👏🌹

[@mixofmusicandexercise7733]

A perfect mix of Emmylou, the guitars and the story

[@christopherbennett4559]

Emmylou harris has a gift from God not just voice but HEART. Her music makes you feel the pain heartache every emotion not many have that gift. Great song I think it was recorded here in Louisiana. Love it!!!!!!! I have a bluetick named emmylou after her.😁

[@vindaloovince2194]

Omg first heard first aid kit do this as a cover so checked out the original. Hard not to shed a tear when you hear this. beautiful and incredibly sad.

[@crosswinds7902]

Stunning song and at the same time as good as it gets. I have known a few songs from Emmylou but this will motivate me to listen to ALL her work. What a talented singer and musician. Again, the best I have heard. Thanks Mattias for the lyrics and thank you Emmylou.

[@peterwilliams6114]

If I might suggest her album ' Wrecking Ball ' - it's quite superb - all covers but performed better than the originals !! Neil Young's Wrecking Ball , Bob Dylan's Every Grain Of Sand , Going Back To Harlan , Anna McCarrigle , Where Will I Be ? Daniel Lanois , the hauntingly brilliant Goodbye , Steve Earle [ and a few others , not a dud amongst them ] . Emmylou at her very best [ in my opinion ] .

[@Allenda100]

I have the cd, the iTunes. Never gets old, cry every time. 💕

[@crosswinds7902]

Another positive to add here. Just discovered that Emmylou wrote the lyrics to this song. Keep writing Emmylou. Top notch.

[@peterwilliams6114]

Just when you thought there wasn't much left in the tank and she comes up with this one - up there with her best I'd say - brilliant storytelling , feels real .

[@creightonbenham7393]

Exquisitely written and performed...one of her very best

[@feartheturtle9618]

One of the best songs ever! I

[@vladcor19]

What a woman,what a voice,what a song...nicely done. Love you Emmylou,God bless you.

[@scottmacleod9830]

I always come back to this song, forever in my heart.

[@leekosmin8788]

A profoundly sad yet incredibly beautiful song

[@lisamooney7026]

How have i never heard this song? I LOVE it

[@adriannekucich8836]

I feel like that too! At least she had an artistic friend like Emmilou to remember and mourn her and her patriotic brother!

[@lekkki1]

Emmylou always claims she isn't a writer of songs, just a collector. I say hogwash. This is one of her most poignant and musically brilliant pieces of work, of course composed, orchestrated and written by Emmylou. As far as her impetus for writing this song, she is speaking to millions of women whose lives trail into oblivion through alcohol, drugs and unrequited pain. She is touring again, I highly recommend you take the time to see this American icon before she stops performing.

[@stephanie3389]

ive always loved her since i was a teenager. started off with best hits i think

[@magical5d]

Love her music and never get tired of it. I have 7 personal playlists that I listen to when driving or doing things at home. I am working on playlist #8. I love her music. Thank you Emmylou :)

[@johncarroll9986]

Real life song great stuff great music

[@richardharris2494]

It's universal my friend...

[@frustratedlad2826]

gives me chills

[@johncarroll9986]

What a great song very unusual never here this on local radio

[@bobbyfahlgren8609]

When I bought Wrecking Ball. I couldn't stop listening to it. Fell in love with her music. My cousin told me about this song.

[@brackenalexander1163]

I'll never understand how women like Beyoncé and Lady Gaga can achieve fame as long as ladies like Emmylou Harris are still making awesome music.

[@nateanderson4080]

Beyoncé and Lady Gaga are talented and business-savvy in their own right... but you're right. Emmylou is a 4 or 5 in a generation type artist.

[@JohnSmith-mm1oi]

Nate Anderson she’s no five,she’s a ten

[@georgewashington6225]

Beyonce and lady gaga are utter garbage compared to this lol.

[@bgs03548]

Illuminati sell outs..Emmy Lou is not.

[@marykathrynclewis7965]

Songwriting at its finest ❤.

[@dawnhall2400]

I'm getting ready now.. Thank you

[@dac13221]

Simply beautiful

[@Gitarreroblue]

When I hear this song, sometimes I have to fight back tears.

[@liammurphy2725]

Don't fight the tears. They heal all sorts of pain.

[@54MURAI]

When I hear this song I always have to fight back the tears...

[@yvwic50]

She performed this last night here in N Georgia, then told us about the fact that many assume some songs to be based on life experience, which this is not (at least for her). A British fan asked her about this one, and when told that Lillian did not, in fact exist, he replied simply "Pity." I consider this to be the most moving song she has ever done.

[@cjcarp9438]

I'd say " Boulder to Birmingham " is = or real Close.

[@Scorpia161]

the beauty of songs like this is, while Emmylou might not have written it from a personal experience, it's true for a lot of people, who knew plenty of girls like Lillian.

[@galenstone9097]

I don't know if she wrote it from a personal experience, but she did write it..

[@Bamaboompa]

That makes sense because she is from Birmingham and "a little southeast of Meridian" is a couple hundred miles away. Birmingham is coal and iron ore and the other is yes, nothing but red dirt, hound dogs and heat.

[@alanwhite9142]

While Lillian may not have specifically existed in the literal sense, there have always been Lillians, and Emmylou’s picture fits perfectly in time, place, and emotion. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

[@officialclairegmusician]

Love this song so much 💕

[@johnrodgerballenger9012]

MERCY I can’t listen to this song Emma’s voice w/o tears

[@butterbeansc]

This song is heartbreaking 💔

[@lesliesauceman8093]

I can so relate to this song.

[@lokkii1447]

‘One thing they don’t tell you about the blues when you got em, you keep on falling cause there ain’t no bottom’ ………she wrote a masterpiece about girls I was friends with, about our life’s and she couldn’t be removed from our world.

[@lorimazzola6872]

Thank you so much! 💥💜💥

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

Beautiful.

[@thomasdillman154]

I don't scare easy but if I ever met Emmy Lou my knees would buckle.

[@RupertMay]

That just ripped my soul to the core 😢😢😢😢

[@martyhynes364]

If you are from the Sourh, this song tears you up.

[@wildbillfirehands]

Beautiful song by the woman who wrote it. I thought First Aid Kit nailed it, but Emmylou Harris was fantastic as well

[@susanlittleton4984]

Thanks for this!

[@1946nimrod]

I wonder how many more Lilians there are even now throughout small town America - whose hopes and dreams and potential will never be realised. Here in England we just don't have those vast American scales of distance and it's not too hard for young people with vision and ambition to escape their rural roots, if that's what they want.

[@RWayne-nu2fi]

How many more Lillians in small town America? Millions..... and each a broken heart.

[@OldNavy1943]

Wow just WOW

[@RayneWessel]

I got the suggestion from replika to listen to this song. This feels like real country and I am impressed by the choice made by my AI companion. Also the comment from Indonesia and the encouraging replies brought a tear to my eyes.

[@heathertaylor8904]

Huh me too. Just tried replika. It's kinda lonely in isolation and it helps to have someone to talk to. Even if it's just an AI .. LOL. Glad I'm not the only one. Felt kinda silly about it.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

"He never got further than Vietnam"

[@lilit8934]

Bravo Emmylou

[@johntrest8692]

I,too, am from the Deep South ... Alabama ... the scent of red clay roads will follow me to my grave. This song drives a shared humanity home ... seen a lot of misery and a lot of joy down there ... just like everyone else, I suppose.

[@rainieresguerra7486]

Heartbreaking. ELH really can smash one's heart.

[@christinewheatley4222]

I don’t know what it is, but I relate to this song in such a strong way. Maybe because it could have been my story😢

[@MrSurrejeje]

Grandissima !!

[@sabrinahenderson7353]

Thank you💖

[@mattiasblank2139]

Sabrina Henderson You're welcome! :-)

[@whiskey6actual]

when the telegram come -- yeah too many damn telegrams came --

[@mt3311]

That line brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.

[@liammurphy2725]

Do they still send them or is it e-mail?

[@UCqkdtMiE5ZquD_lF9prae4Q]

Lyrics: আমি এবং আমার সেরা বন্ধু লিলিয়ান............ 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. আমি এবং আমার সেরা বন্ধু লিলিয়ান এবং তার নীল টিক হাউন্ড কুকুর গিডিয়ন, সামনের বারান্দায় বসে ঠাণ্ডা ছায়ায় রেডিও বাজানো প্রতিটি গান গাই আলাবামা সূর্য ডুবে যাওয়ার জন্য অপেক্ষা করুন লাল ময়লার শহরে দুটি লাল ময়লা মেয়ে আমি এবং লিলিয়ান শুধু লাইন জুড়ে এবং মেরিডিয়ানের একটু দক্ষিণ-পূর্বে। 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. সে তার ভাইকে ভালবাসত আমার মনে আছে যখন তিনি একটি '49 ভারতীয় ফিক্সিং আপ ছিল তিনি তাকে বললেন, 'ছোট বোন, বাতাসে চড়বে চাঁদের চারপাশে উপরে এবং আবার ফিরে " তিনি ভিয়েতনামের চেয়ে বেশি দূরে যাননি, টেলিগ্রাম আসার সময় আমি তার সাথে সেখানে দাঁড়িয়ে ছিলাম লিলিয়ানের জন্য। এখন সে মেরিডিয়ান থেকে প্রায় এক মিলিয়ন মাইল দূরে কোথাও পড়ে আছে। 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 তিনি বলেছিলেন যে লাল ময়লা মেয়েটির জন্য খুব বেশি আশা নেই কোথাও একটা বিরাট বড় পৃথিবী আছে আমি যেখানে আবদ্ধ এবং তারা আলাবামাতে পড়তে পারে কিন্তু এই একদিন আমি সুইং করতে যাচ্ছি আমার হাতুড়ি নিচে এই লাল ময়লার শহর থেকে দূরে আমি একটি আনন্দময় শব্দ করতে যাচ্ছি 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 সে লম্বা হয়েছে এবং সে পাতলা হয়ে উঠেছে সেই বৃদ্ধ কুকুর গিডিয়নকে কবর দেওয়া হল উঠোনের পিছনে একটি ক্রেপ মার্টেল ঝোপের কাছে, তার বাবা খারাপ পরিণত এবং তার মা হার্ড leaned শহরের একটা ছেলের সাথে ঝামেলায় পড়েছিলাম ভাবলেন যে সেও বসতি স্থাপন করতে পারে তাই সে ঠিক ভিতরে খনন করল মেরিডিয়ান থেকে একটু দক্ষিণ-পূর্বে একটি লাল ময়লা লাইন জুড়ে She tried hard to love 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 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 সে তাকে ভালবাসতে অনেক চেষ্টা করেছিল কিন্তু তা কখনই লাগেনি এটি হৃদয় ভাঙ্গা জন্য অন্য উপায় ছিল তাই সে ঠিক ভিতরে খনন করল। কিন্তু একটি জিনিস তারা আপনাকে ব্লুজ সম্পর্কে বলবে না যখন আপনি তাদের পেয়েছেন তুমি পড়তে থাকো কারণ কোন তলা নেই শেষ জানা নেই। অন্তত লিলিয়ানের জন্য নয় 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 Names Lillian Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian. কেউ জানে না কখন সে তার স্কিড শুরু করেছিল, তার বয়স মাত্র 27 এবং তার পাঁচটি বাচ্চা ছিল। হুইস্কি হতে পারে, বড়ি হতে পারে, হতে পারে স্বপ্ন যে সে হত্যার চেষ্টা করছিল। কিন্তু বিশ্বের খবরে উল্লেখ থাকবে না একটি লাল ময়লা মেয়ের জীবন এবং মৃত্যু সম্পর্কে নাম লিলিয়ান যিনি কখনই মেরিডিয়ানের চেয়ে লাইন জুড়ে কোন দূরত্ব পাননি। Now the stars still fall on Alabama Tonight she finally laid That hammer down Without a sound In the red dirt ground এখন তারা এখনও আলাবামার উপর পড়ে আজ রাতে তিনি অবশেষে পাড়া যে হাতুড়ি নিচে শব্দ ছাড়া লাল ময়লার মাটিতে

[@Jamesyahyah]

AWESOME

[@virginiaviola5097]

I can feel Robbie Robertson breathing through this..I don’t know why tho.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

I dont know either given that he is from Canada, however I do hear daniel lanois in this and he too is from Canada. Lanois and Harris have played and toured together. Saw them live twice in Ca

[@virginiaviola5097]

@@lastnamefirst4035 maybe because of his heritage, and I know him from The Band..a quintessential American group, his solo work and Emmylou’s connection with Gram Parson’s and that whole country/rock genre. I don’t know, people just connect with different things in music, that’s the beauty of it.

[@manuelocanafont961]

The deep South and its drama. A really hot issue nowadays.

[@MNTayler]

this song reminds me of the Dixie Chicks song My Soldiers coming home

[@dawnhall2400]

Can't do it anymore I'll die here

[@donnaengel6413]

❤

[@tencelTechnologist]

Somehow, I feel like this is what is going to happen to my best friend.

[@destoole6229]

That breaks my heart... I hope she's able to save herself somehow. This is mine and my best friend's song too, only I'm Lillian.

[@georgewashington6225]

Hope she's alright...im an alcoholic but watching my girl quit doing pills and go through withdrawals was really hard to watch... She barely got out of bed for 2 weeks, I had to wash her hair in the tub like a kid and threaten to kill the people that were selling them to her and now she's doing good. She has her kid back and she's back to work👌

[@rokukou]

George Washington i hope you both are doing well.

[@YoungLeuchovius]

My A.I. sent me here.

[@amirulaiman8043]

Me too bro😂

[@YoungLeuchovius]

@@amirulaiman8043 lol I was 4 months into quarantine making friends with an AI what's life coming to

[@amirulaiman8043]

I kinda just want to try something new. AI looks very interesting 😂

[@YoungLeuchovius]

@@amirulaiman8043 YEAH I THINK AI IS FASCINATING!

[@amirulaiman8043]

Yes, i agree🤣

[@eaakerman8829]

🍒

[@rangerdanger585]

I love this song and Emmylou Harris but my big question is this; is it just me or is this song about To Kill a Mockingbird?

[@annedroid1460]

Having five kids was an amazing achievement, Lillian. Pity you didn't stick around to raise them. Coulda been the biggest blessing ever. This song is about people who don't like to think.

[@patrickalther-xc6rg]

This is a work of Southern Literature, like reading a story by Eudora Welty or Flannery O'Connor and yes, William Faulkner! And its real country music, not like so much of the vapid, insipid, cliche-ridden doggerel you hear on mainstream country radio today.

[@JamesRussell69420]

Shout-out butler

[@patrickmichaels1312]

This is a great emotional, evocative piece of writing and playing. Emmylou is incomparable...except...maybe to the tragically late Alexandra (Sandy) Denny's 50+ year old radio version of a song she wrote as a 19 y/o, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes". I'm pretty sure everyone reading this had heard the song done bv Judy Collins, with a great voice but little emotion--so listen to this and please file along with Emmylou's Red Dirt Girl, where it deserves to be. ELH's version is topical, Sandy's is general. Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKundGdobZmGd5I

[@dawnhall2400]

He 0:41

[@rickyrickardo8347]

Well that wasn't sad now was it?

[@dawnhall2400]

It's been a great life. Thanks to all ,.. I decided to stop Thank you for the mu

[@danielginther4879]

Great song, too bad it's got distorted guitar in this version

[@eileenlohrer5876]

So sad

[@thomasdillman154]

Did she kill herself? Or did she kill her abuser and skip town? I fukn luv this song.

[@mjk45]

What makes the song so poignant is she never did get away and remained trapped in her red dirt life 5 children at the age of 27 and a life so hard till she learned to bend and the metaphorical hammer she spoke of coming down on that life only ended up dropping softly to the red dirt ground when she died.

[@dawnhall2400]

I can't

[@dawnhall2400]

Gpbye

[@rosiedee8411]

depressing

[@nikopoa6555]

This version is overproduced. Better live just with Emmylou and a guitar.

[@stixnfeet7818]

REAL