[Verse 1]
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I was a highwoman, and a mother from my youth, for my children I did what I had
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to do. My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas. We followed a
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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
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me sleepin, naked in the noon sun. I heard witchcraft in the whispers and I knew
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my time had come. The bastards hung me at the Salem Gallows Hills, but I
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am living still.
[Verse 3]
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I was a freedom rider, when we thought the south had had won,
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Virginia in the spring of ‘61. I sat down on the greyhound that was bound for
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Mississippi, my mother asked me if that ride was worth my life. And when the
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shots rang out I never heard the sound, but I am still around.
[Bridge]
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And I’ll take that ride again and again and again and again and again.
[Verse 4]
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I was a preacher, my heart broke for all the world, but teaching was unrighteous
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for a girl. In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado. In the winter I
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heard the hounds and I knew that I’d been found. And in my Saviour’s name
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I laid my weapons down, but I am still around.
[Verse 5]
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We are the highwomen, and sing of stories still untold. We carry the sons
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you can only hold. We are the daughters of the silent generations. You send our
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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 (x2)
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