Highwoman chords by The Highwomen

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
 E minorEm    D MajorD        C majorC D MajorD     E minorEm       D MajorD      C majorC
I was a highwoman, and a mother from my youth, for my children I did what I had
   D MajorD  A minorAm           E minorEm     D MajorD      C majorC      A minorAm
 to do. My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas. We followed a
E minorEm         D MajorD      C majorC   E minorEm   D MajorD      C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
 coyote through the dust of Mexico. Everyone of them except for me survived,
  C majorC       D MajorD
 and I am still alive.


Verse 2:
E minorEm     D MajorD     C majorC   D MajorD   E minorEm  D MajorD    C majorC       D MajorD   A minorAm
I was a healer, I was gifted as a girl, I laid hands upon the world. Someone saw
   E minorEm    D MajorD     C majorC       A minorAm             E minorEm      D MajorD
 me sleepin, naked in the (nude sun?). I heard witchcraft in the whispers and I knew
       C majorC     E minorEm    D MajorD        C majorC   D MajorD   G+G    C majorC
 my time had come. The bastards hung me at the Salem Gallows Hills, but I

       D MajorD
 am living still.

Verse 3:
E minorEm     D MajorD            C majorC    D MajorD      E minorEm
 I was a freedom rider, when we thought the south had had won,
  D MajorD      C majorC     D MajorD   A minorAm          E minorEm       D MajorD
 Virginia in the spring of ‘61. I sat down on the greyhound that was bound for
  C majorC     A minorAm        E minorEm      D MajorD       C majorC   E minorEm
 Mississippi, my mother asked me if that ride was worth my life. And when the
   D MajorD      C majorC   D MajorD     G+G   C majorC        D MajorD
 shots rang out I never heard the sound, but I am still around.


Bridge:
            G+G      D MajorD    C majorC     D MajorD    C majorC
And I’ll take that ride again and again and again and again and again.
Verse 4:

E minorEm     D MajorD         C majorC   D MajorD     E minorEm      D MajorD      C majorC
I was a preacher, my heart broke for all the world, but teaching was unrighteous
    D MajorD   A minorAm           E minorEm      D MajorD   C majorC     A minorAm
 for a girl. In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado. In the winter I
       E minorEm     D MajorD         C majorC   E minorEm     D MajorD
 heard the hounds and I knew that I’d been found. And in my Saviour’s name
  C majorC      D MajorD  G+G   C majorC        D MajorD
 I laid my weapons down, but I am still around.


Verse 5:
E minorEm       D MajorD           C majorC    D MajorD   E minorEm     D MajorD    C majorC
We are the highwomen, and sing of stories still untold. We carry the sons
        D MajorD   A minorAm      E minorEm       D MajorD   c      A minorAm
 you can only hold. We are the daughters of the silent generations. You send our
E minorEm        D MajorD        C majorC   E minorEm     D MajorD       C majorC   D MajorD     G+G
 hearts to die alone in foreign nations. And they return to us as tiny drops of rain,
C majorC           D MajorD
 but we will still remain.


Outro:
            G+G    D MajorD     C majorC    D MajorD     C majorC
And we’ll come back again and again and again and again and again (x2)
G+G D MajorD C majorC D MajorD C majorC E minorEm

Highwoman chords

"Highwoman" is a song off of the debut album of country music super group The Highwomen. "Highwoman" also features contributions from Yola Carter and Sheryl Crow.