Kunci: B major•
Verse 1
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
My family left Honduras
F#
E
when they killed the Sandinistas
C#m
G#m
We followed a coyote
F#
E
through the dust of Mexico
G#m
F#
Every one of them
E
B/D#
B
except for me survived
E
F#add4
And I am still alive
Verse 2
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
Someone saw me sleeping
F#
E
naked in the noon sun
C#m
G#m
I heard "witchcraft" in the whispers
F#
E
and I knew my time had come
G#m
F#
The bastards hung me
E
B/D#
B
at the Salem gallows hill
E
F#add4
But I am living still
Verse 3
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
I sat down on the Greyhound
F#
E
that was bound for Mississippi
C#m
G#m
My mother asked me
F#
E
if that ride was worth my life
G#m
F#
And when the shots rang out
E
B/D#
B
I never heard the sound
E
F#add4
But I am still around
Chorus 1
B
And I'll take that ride again
E
B/D#
C#m
F#
B
And again
Verse 4
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
In the summer I was baptized
F#
E
in the mighty Colorado
C#m
G#m
In the winter I heard the hounds
F#
E
and I knew I had been found
G#m
F#
And in my Savior's name,
E
B/D#
B
I laid my weapons down
E
F#add4
But I am still around
Verse 5
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
We are the daughters
F#
E
of the silent generations
C#m
G#m
You sent our hearts
F#
E
to die alone in foreign nations
G#m
F#
E
B/D#
B
It may return to us as tiny drops of rain
E
F#add4
But we will still remain
Chorus 2
B
And we'll come back again
E
B/D#
C#m
And again
F#
B
We'll come back again
E
B/D#
And again
C#m
F#
G#m
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