Highwoman chords by The Highwomen

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
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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,
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 and I am still alive.


Verse 2:
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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 (nude 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

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 am living still.


Verse 3:
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 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
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 shots rang out I never heard the sound, but I am still around.


Bridge:
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And I’ll take that ride again and again and again and again and again.
Verse 4:

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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
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 heard the hounds and I knew that I’d been found.  And in my Saviour’s name
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 I laid my weapons down, but I am still around.


Verse 5:
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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
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 hearts to die alone in foreign nations.  And they return to us as tiny drops of rain,
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 but we will still remain.


Outro:
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And we’ll come back again and again and again and again and again  (x2)
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