Highwomen chords by The Highwomen (Ver. 2)

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Em


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

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


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


Bridge:
     G
And I'll take that ride again
  D     Em
And again And again
  D     C   G Am D G  Em
And again And again


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


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


Outro:
  G             D     Em
And we'll come back again and again and again
  D     C   G Am
And again and again
  D        G     D     Em
And we'll come back again and again and again
  D     C   G Am
And again and again
  D        G     D     Em
And we'll come back again and again and again
  D     C   G Am
And again and again
  D        G     D     Em
And we'll come back again and again and again
  D     C   G Am G Em
And again and again