Red Dirt Girl. A sad song. Emmylou Harris

[Bertha Venation]

nobody knows when she started her skid
she was only 27 and she had five kids
could've been the whiskey, could've been the pills
could've been the dream she was trying to kill
but there won't me a mention in the news of the world
of the life and the death of a red dirt girl named Lillian
who never got any farther across the line from Meridian