Highwomen chords by The Highwomen

Tuning: Half-Step Down (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)

Key: Am

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1: Brandi Carlile:
G#m    F#
I was a Highwoman
   E       G#m
And a mother from my youth
F#           E      F#
For my children I did what I had to do
  C#m      G#m       F#      E
My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas
  C#m    G#m        F#      E
We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico
G#m   F#       E    F#  B
 Every one of them except for me survived
  E      F#
And I am still alive

Verse 2: Amanda Shires:
G#m    F#
 I was a healer
   E      G#m
I was gifted as a girl
F#    E       F#
 I laid hands upon the world
C#m      G#m   F#      E
Someone saw me sleeping naked in the noon sun
       C#m      G#m       F#       E
I heard "witchcraft" in the whispers and I knew my time had come
G#m       F#      E   F#   B
  The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill
  E      F#
But I am living still


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


Chorus:
 F#           B
And I'll take that ride again
   F#
And again
   G#m
And again
  F#
And again
  E
And again


Verse 4: Natalie Hemby:
G#m      F#
   I was a preacher
     E         G#m
My heart broke for all the world
   F#       E       F#
But teaching was unrighteous for a girl
    C#m     G#m      F#     E
In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado
    C#m        G#m     F#       E
In the winter I heard the hounds and I knew I had been found
G#m      F#        E    F#   B
  And in my Savior's name, I laid my weapons down
  E       F#
But I am still around


Verse 5: All:
G#m     F#
 We are The Highwomen
     E       G#m
Singing stories still untold
F#       E        F#
 We carry the sons you can only hold
C#m      G#m       F#     E
 We are the daughters of the silent generations
C#m       G#m      F#       E
 You sent our hearts to die alone in foreign nations
G#m    F#      E  F#    B
It may return to us as tiny drops of rain
  E       F#
But we will still remain


Chorus:
F#          B    F#    G#m
And we'll come back again and again and again
   F#    E
And again and again
F#          B    F#    G#m
And we'll come back again and again and again
   F#    E
And again and again
F#          B    F#    G#m
And we'll come back again and again and again
   F#    E
And again and again
F#          B    F#    G#m
And we'll come back again and again and again
   F#    E
And again and again