Highwomen

Em D C D Em D C I was a highwoman, and a mother from my youth, for my children I did what I had D Am Em D C Am to do. My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas. We followed a Em D C Em D C D G coyote through the dust of Mexico. Everyone of them except for me survived, C D and I am still alive. Em D C D Em D C D Am I was a healer, I was gifted as a girl, I laid hands upon the world. Someone saw Em D C Am Em D me sleepin, naked in the noon sun. I heard witchcraft in the whispers and I knew C Em D C D G C my time had come. The bastards hung me at the Salem Gallows Hills, but I D am living still. Em D C D Em I was a freedom rider, when we thought the south had had won, D C D Am Em D Virginia in the spring of ‘61. I sat down on the greyhound that was bound for C Am Em D C Em Mississippi, my mother asked me if that ride was worth my life. And when the D C D G C D shots rang out I never heard the sound, but I am still around. G D C D C And I'll take that ride again and again and again and again and again. Em D C D Em D C I was a preacher, my heart broke for all the world, but teaching was unrighteous D Am Em D C Am for a girl. In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado. In the winter I Em D C Em D heard the hounds and I knew that I'd been found. And in my Saviour's name C D G C D I laid my weapons down, but I am still around. Em D C D Em D C We are the highwomen, and sing of stories still untold. We carry the sons D Am Em D c Am you can only hold. We are the daughters of the silent generations. You send our Em D C Em D C D G hearts to die alone in foreign nations. And they return to us as tiny drops of rain, C D but we will still remain. G D C D C And we'll come back again and again and again and again and again (2x) G D C D C Em