Highwoman chords by The Highwomen

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
 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.


Verse 2:
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 (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:
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.


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

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.


Verse 5:
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.


Outro:
            G    D     C    D     C
And we’ll come back again and again and again and again and again (x2)
G D C D C Em