Chords for Highwomen

_ _ [C#] I was a high woman and [E] a mother from [G#m] my youth
_ [G#] For my children [E] I did what I had [C#] to do
_ [C#m] My family left Honduras [F#m] when they killed the [E] Sandinistas
[C#m] We followed our coyote [C#] through the dust of [E] Mexico
_ [G#m] _ [G#] Every one of them [E] except for [B] me survived
[E] And I am still [G#]
alive
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _
[F#] I was a healer, _ [B] I was [E] gifted as [G#m] a girl
I _ [F#] _ [E] laid hands upon [F#] the world
_ [C#m] _ Someone saw me sleeping [F#] naked in the noon sun
[C#m] I heard witchcraft [G#m] in the whispers [F#] and I knew my [B] time had come
[G#m] The bastards hung me at the Salem Gallows Hill
[E] But I am living [F#] still
_ _ _ [G#m] I was [F#] a freedom rider when we [E] thought the South [G#m] had won
_ _ [F#] Virginia in [E] the spring of [F#] 61
I [C#m] sat down on [G#m] the greyhound that [F#] was bound for [E] Mississippi
_ [C#m]
My [G#m] mother asked me if [F#] that ride was worth [E] my life
[G#m]
And when [F#] the shots rang out [B] I never heard the sound
[E] But I am [F#] still around
_ _ _ And I'll take that [B] ride again [D#m] and again [G#m] and again [F#] and again [E] and again
[B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ [F#] I was a preacher, _ [E] my heart broke for [G#m] all the world _
[F#] But teaching [E] was unrighteous [F#] for a girl
[F#m] _
[C#m] In the summer [G#m] I was baptized [F#] in a mighty [E]
Colorado
[C#m] In the winter I heard the hounds [F#] and I knew I [E] had been found
[G#m] And [F#m] in my savior's [E] name I laid my [B] weapons down
But I am [F#] still around _ _ _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ [F#] We're the Howarmen
We [E] sing a story [G#m] still untold
_ [F#]
We [E] carry the stones you can [F#] only hold
[F#m] We [C#m] _
[G#m] are the daughters of the silent [E] generations
[C#m]
You [G#m] send our hearts to [F#] die alone in [E] foreign nations
[G#m]
It [F#m] may return to [E] us as tiny drops of rain
But we will [F#] still remain
_ _ _ And we'll come [B] back again [A#m] and again [G#m] and again [F#] and again [E] and again
[D#m] _ [C#m] We'll _ [F#]
come [B] back again [F#] and again [G#m] and again [F#] and again [E] and again
[D#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _