Tom: G#m
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
