Biography:
Caroline Herring is a Mississippi-born, Atlanta-based singer/songwriter. She started her career in Austin, TX, where she won the 2002 Best New Artist award in both the Austin American-Statesman and the Austin Chronicle. There she released two albums: Twilight (2001) and Wellspring (2003). Herring relocated to Atlanta, and recently she won the 2008 Best Singer/songwriter award in Atlanta's Creative Loafing.
In 2008, Herring released her outstanding album Lantana (Signature Sounds)
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Other songs:
- A Little Bit Of Mercy
- A Turn Upon The Hill
- Abuelita
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- Black Mountain Lullaby
- Building Of The Road
- Camilla
- Carolina Moon
- Colorado Woman
- Come With Me
- Delta Highway
- Dixie Darling
- Donna Donna
- Emma
- Everybody Needs A Special Place
- Fair And Tender Ladies
- Flee As A Bird
- Heart And Soul
- Heartbreak Tonight
- Here In California
- House On Wheels
- I Went For A Month
- I Will Go Into The Day
- Jewels
- Lay My Burden Down
- Learning To Drive
- Lets Take A Walk
- Lover Girl
- Magnolias
- Maiden Voyage
- Midnight On The Water
- Mistress
- Mortified
- Music Of The Mountains
- One Day She Saw Me
- Paper Gown
- Ringside Rodeo
- Sams Song
- Song Of The Wandering Aengus
- Standing In The Water
- States Of Grace
- Stone Cold World
- Summer Song
- The Dozens
- The Way That You Are
- The Wild Rose
- Trace
- Wise Woman
- Wreck On The Highway
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Caroline Herring - Mistress
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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
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Floating down the Brazos in my chariot to the sky
CHORUS:
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
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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
CHORUS:
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
INSTRUMENTAL: G F C Am G F C
G F C
I was born in the hills of Kentucky
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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___
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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
CHORUS:
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
Santa Ana won____
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Santa Ana won
INTRO: 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
CHORUS:
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
CHORUS:
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
INSTRUMENTAL: 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
CHORUS:
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
Santa Ana won____
C G F C G F C
Santa Ana won
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