Highwomen

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