Highwomen

[00:02.39] I was a Highwoman
[00:04.78] And a mother from my youth
[00:08.73] For my children I did what I had to do
[00:13.86] My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas
[00:18.80] We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico
[00:24.57] Every one of them except for me survived
[00:28.98] And I am still alive
[00:35.72] I was a healer
[00:38.58] I was gifted as a girl
[00:43.40] I laid hands upon the world
[00:48.05] Someone saw me sleeping naked in the noon sun
[00:52.94] I heard "witchcraft" in the whispers and I knew my time had come
[00:58.65] The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill
[01:03.27] But I am living still
[01:07.97] I was a freedom rider
[01:10.45] When we thought the South had won
[01:14.57] Virginia in the spring of '61
[01:19.58] I sat down on the Greyhound that was bound for Mississippi
[01:25.28] My mother asked me if that ride was worth my life
[01:30.13] And when the shots rang out I never heard the sound
[01:34.83] But I am still around
[01:39.68] And I'll take that ride again
[01:41.56] And again
[01:42.92] And again
[01:44.27] And again
[01:45.62] And again
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[01:54.26] I was a preacher
[01:56.50] My heart broke for all the world
[02:00.87] But teaching was unrighteous for a girl
[02:05.83] In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado
[02:10.76] In the winter I heard the hounds and I knew I had been found
[02:16.56] And in my Savior's name, I laid my weapons down
[02:20.91] But I am still around
[02:24.92]
[02:27.70] We are The Highwomen
[02:30.13] Singing stories still untold
[02:34.32] We carry the sons you can only hold
[02:39.87] We are the daughters of the silent generations
[02:44.72] You sent our hearts to die alone in foreign nations
[02:49.93] It may return to us as tiny drops of rain
[02:54.04] But we will still remain
[02:58.93] And we'll come back again and again and again
[03:04.19] And again and again
[03:09.39] We'll come back again and again and again
[03:14.09] And again and again
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