Em        D              C            Em             D             C
I was a highwoman, and a mother from my youth, for my children I did what I had
   D       Am          Em                 D               C           Am
to do.  My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas.  We followed a
  Em                D           C    Em     D          C         D      G
 coyote through the dust of Mexico.  Everyone of them except for me survived,
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and I am still alive.


[Verse 2]
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I was a healer, I was gifted as a girl, I laid hands upon the world.  Someone saw
     Em        D         C                  Am                Em             D
me sleepin, naked in the noon sun.  I heard witchcraft in the whispers and I knew
            C         Em        D                C      D      G        C
my time had come.  The bastards hung me at the Salem Gallows Hills, but I
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am living still.


[Verse 3]
Em          D                      C                      Em
 I was a freedom rider, when we thought the south had had won,
   D            C          D      Am              Em                 D
Virginia in the spring of ‘61.  I sat down on the greyhound that was bound for
   C           Am      Em                D                  C      Em
Mississippi, my mother asked me if that ride was worth my life.  And when the
    D            C      D         G      C               D
shots rang out I never heard the sound, but I am still around.


[Bridge]
                        G          D/F#     Em        D         C     G/B  Am  D   G
And I’ll take that ride again and again and again and again and again.


[Verse 4]

Em         D                 C               Em           D            C
I was a preacher, my heart broke for all the world, but teaching was unrighteous
       D         Am                Em            D      C                Am
for a girl.  In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado.  In the winter I
           Em          D                  C     Em          D
heard the hounds and I knew that I’d been found.  And in my Saviour’s name
  C          D    G     C               D
I laid my weapons down, but I am still around.


[Verse 5]
Em             D                     C             Em         D        C
We are the highwomen, and sing of stories still untold.  We carry the sons
              D     Am            Em             D      C            Am
you can only hold.  We are the daughters of the silent generations.  You send our
Em               D                C      Em          D             C     D         G
 hearts to die alone in foreign nations.  And they return to us as tiny drops of rain,
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 but we will still remain.


[Outro]
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And we’ll come back again and again and again and again and again                   x 2