[ti:Highwomen] [ar:The Highwomen] [al:The Highwomen] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Highwomen - The Highwomen [00:00.45]Lyrics by：Amanda Shires/Brandi Carlile/Jimmy Webb [00:01.60]Brandi Carlile： [00:01.77]I was a Highwoman [00:04.45]And a mother from my youth [00:08.39]For my children I did what I had to do [00:13.49]My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas [00:18.25]We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico [00:24.08]Every one of them except for me survived [00:28.20]And I am still alive [00:30.39]Amanda Shires： [00:35.40]I was a healer [00:38.10]I was gifted as a girl [00:43.26]I laid hands upon the world [00:47.67]Someone saw me sleeping naked in the noon sun [00:52.31]I heard witchcraft in the whispers and I knew my time had come [00:58.10]The bastards hung me at the Salem gallows hill [01:02.44]But I am living still [01:04.67]Yola： [01:07.41]I was a freedom rider [01:10.01]When we thought the South had won [01:14.25]Virginia in the spring of '61 [01:19.03]I sat down on the Greyhound that was bound for Mississippi [01:24.48]My mother asked me if that ride was worth my life [01:29.50]And when the shots rang out I never heard the sound [01:33.82]But I am still around [01:38.71]And I'll take that ride again [01:41.26]And again and again and again and again [01:46.58]Natalie Hemby： [01:53.53]I was a preacher [01:56.05]My heart broke for all the world [02:00.31]But teaching was unrighteous for a girl [02:05.01]In the summer I was baptized in the mighty Colorado [02:09.97]In the winter I heard the hounds and I knew I had been found [02:15.77]And in my Savior's name I laid my weapons down [02:20.03]But I am still around [02:22.15]Both： [02:27.33]We are The Highwomen [02:29.69]Singing stories still untold [02:33.92]We carry the sons you can only hold [02:39.36]We are the daughters of the silent generations [02:44.26]You send our hearts to die alone in foreign nations [02:49.23]It may return to us as tiny drops of rain [02:53.76]But we will still remain [02:58.57]And we'll come back again [03:00.78]And again and again and again and again [03:08.69]We'll come back again [03:10.69]And again and again and again and again