Highwomen chords by The Highwomen

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

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

Intro:
E minorEm


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

Verse 2:
       D MajorD
I was a healer
   C majorC      E minorEm
I was gifted as a girl
D MajorD    C majorC       E minorEm
 I laid hands upon the world
A minorAm       E minorEm    D MajorD      C majorC
Someone saw me sleeping, naked in the noon sun
     A minorAm         E minorEm       D MajorD        C majorC
I heard "witchcraft" in the whispers and I knew my time had come
E minorEm       D MajorD       G+G
  The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill
  C majorC      D MajorD
But I am living still


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

Bridge:
     G+G
And I'll take that ride again
  D MajorD     E minorEm
And again And again
  D MajorD     C majorC   G+G A minorAm D MajorD G+G  E minorEm
And again And again


Verse 4:
    D MajorD
I was a preacher
     C majorC         E minorEm
My heart broke for all the world
  D MajorD       C majorC        D MajorD
But teaching was unrighteous for a girl
    A minorAm      E minorEm       D MajorD     C majorC
In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado
    A minorAm         E minorEm      D MajorD        C majorC
In the winter I heard the hounds and I knew I had been found
E minorEm      D MajorD        G+G
  And in my Savior's name, I laid my weapons down
  C majorC      D MajorD   G+G E minorEm
But I am still around


Verse 5:
      D MajorD
We are The Highwomen
    C majorC        E minorEm
Singing stories still untold
D MajorD      C majorC         D MajorD
We carry the sons you can only hold
A minorAm      E minorEm        D MajorD     C majorC
  We are the daughters of the silent generations
A minorAm       E minorEm       D MajorD        C majorC
  You sent our hearts to die alone in foreign nations
E minorEm     D MajorD       G+G
  It may return to us as tiny drops of rain
  C majorC       D MajorD
But we will still remain


Outro:
  G+G             D MajorD     E minorEm
And we'll come back again and again and again
  D MajorD     C majorC   G+G A minorAm
And again and again
  D MajorD        G+G     D MajorD     E minorEm
And we'll come back again and again and again
  D MajorD     C majorC   G+G A minorAm
And again and again
  D MajorD        G+G     D MajorD     E minorEm
And we'll come back again and again and again
  D MajorD     C majorC   G+G A minorAm
And again and again
  D MajorD        G+G     D MajorD     E minorEm
And we'll come back again and again and again
  D MajorD     C majorC   G+G A minorAm G+G E minorEm
And again and again

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