Me and my
best friend Lillian
And her
blue tick hound dog Gideon
Sittin'
on the front porch coolin' 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
crêpe myrtle bush in the back of the yard
Her dad
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 southeast of Meridian.
Yes, 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
One thing
they don't tell you about the blues
When you
got 'em
You keep
on fallin' '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 tryin' 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.
The Castellows are three
sibling sisters' voices: Ellie (lead guitar), Powell (banjo) and Lily (vocals),
hail from small rural Georgetown, Georgia, but now call Nashville home. Such
incredible lyrics, they go straight to the heart. Stay true to your roots and
please don't sell out to the industry! Your uniqueness is what makes y'all special!
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