Tono: G
Introducción: G F C G F C G F C G F C
G F C
Who was my mother, who was my father
G F C G
All I've known is a whip upon my back
F C
My skin is yellowed by much more than weakness
Am G F C G C
And wise beyond the years of the blue and the black
G F C
My arms were never strong enough to stir molasses
G F C G
My eyes watch riverboats as they go by
F C Am
Some call me mistress, but I wish that I was cargo
G F C F C Am
Floating down the Brazos in my chariot to the sky
F C
Oh Rachel, won't you lie next to me
Dm Am G C
Tonight and every night to come
G F C
And won't you calm all that's raging inside me
Am G F C G F C G F C
'Cause outside's just a battlefield that Santa Ana won
G F C
My people, they worked from can't see to can't see
G F C G
Traded in and out from the grassy shores
F C Am
They say there's something about me
G F C G C
Flying like a bird, never known freedom before___
G F C
Well, I wear dresses of silks and threaded satins
G F C G
Some gowns were only meant to bear a woman's breast
F C
I'll stand down every white man in this county
Am G F C F C Am
But Columbus you are dying and I'm no different from the rest
F C
Oh Rachel, won't you lie next to me
Dm Am G C
Tonight and every night to come
G F C
And won't you calm all that's raging inside me
Am G F C G F C G F C
Outside's just a battlefield that Santa Ana won
G F C Am G F C
G F C
I was born in the hills of Kentucky
G F C G
Never native to the auction block arrest
F C Am
Headed Southbound as a captive in this country
G F C G C
Just like the cowboys drove their cattle through the West___
G F C
Well, you can read all our names in the records
G F C
You can deny all the days as they go down
G F C Am
There's a brick-laid pathway calling you to find us
G F C F C Am
Underneath a golf course in an east Texas town
F C
Oh Rachel, won't you lie next to me
Dm Am G C
Tonight and every night to come
G F C
And won't you calm all that's raging inside me
Am G F C G F
'Cause outside's just a battlefield that Santa Ana won
C G F C G F C
Santa Ana won