Music Monday – “My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas/We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico/Every one of them except for me survived/And I am still alive”

There are very few songs that can make the hair on my arms stand on end.

This song, a reworking of an older song I loved growing up. But instead of focusing on men dying doing manly things as in the original, the update is about women dying in service of larger social issues. Incredibly powerful…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kerzNA6fSc4

“Highwoman” – The Highwomen

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