Hadestown - Chant Chords

[Intro]
C#m
 
[WORKERS]
C#m
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
C#m
If you wanna keep your head
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
C#m
Keep your head, keep your head low
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
C#m
If you wanna keep your head
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head
 
[PERSEPHONE]
C#m
In the coldest time of year
C#m
Why is it so hot down here?
Hotter than a crucible
C#m
It ain't right and it ain't natural
 
[HADES]
C#m
Lover, you were gone so long
C#m
Lover, I was lonesome
C#m
So I built a foundry
C#m
In the ground beneath your feet
C#m
Here, I fashioned things of steel
C#m
Oil drums and automobiles
C#m
Then I kept that furnace fed
C#m
With the fossils of the dead
C#m
Lover, when you feel that fire
C#m
Think of it as my desire
A              G#m           Bbm
Think of it as my desire for you!
 
[ORPHEUS(WORKERS)]
Bbm
La la la la La la la la la
Eb/Bb
La la, La lam La la la la la
Ebm/Db
Laa, La la la la la
Eb/Bb
Laa, La la la la la
Bbm
Laa laa, La la la la la la
Eb/g
Laa, la la la la la
Ebm/Gb
Laa laa, la la la la
 
[WORKERS(ORPHEUS)]
C#m
Low, keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
C#m
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la…)
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
C#m
Keep your head, keep your head low
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
C#m
If you wanna keep your head
 
[EURYDICE (FATES)]
C#m              B
Looking high and looking low
A                G#m
For the food and firewood I know
C#m        F#9
We need to find and I am
A               G#m
Keeping one eye on the sky and
C#m       B              A                 G#m
Tryin' to trust that the song he's working on is gonna (Oooooh)
C#m     B
Shelter us (Oooooh)
         A         B         C#m
From the wind, the wind, the wind (Oooooh)
 
[Instrumental]
A C#m G#m C# G#m C#m
 
[PERSEPHONE]
C#m
In the darkest time of year
C#m
Why is it so bright down here?
C#m
Brighter than a carnival
C#m
It ain't right and it ain't natural
 
[HADES]
C#m
Lover, you were gone so long
C#m
Lover, I was lonesome
C#m
So I laid a power grid
C#m
In the ground on which you stood
C#m
And wasn't it electrifying
C#m
When I made the neon shine?
C#m
Silver screen, cathode ray
C#m
Brighter than the light of day
C#m
Lover, when you see that glare
C#m
Think of it as my despair
A              G#             A#m
Think of it as my despair for you!
 
[ORPHEUS (HERMES)]
Bbm
They can't find the tune (Orpheus!) They can't feel the rhythm (Orpheus!)
Eb/Bb
King Hades is deafened by a river of stone (Poor boy working on a song)
Bbm                                         Eb/Bb
And Lady Persephone's blinded by a river of wine
Eb/Bb
Livin' in an oblivion (He did not see the storm coming on)
 
[ORPHEUS (FATES and HERMES)]
Bbm
His black gold flows (Oooooh) In the world down below (Oooooh)
Eb/Bb
And her dark clouds roll in the one up above
 
[HERMES]
Eb/Bb
Look up!
 
[COMPANY]
               Bbm/Ab
Keep your head low
 
[ORPHEUS]
Bbm/Ab
And that is the reason we're on this road
Eb/G
And the seasons are wrong
DEbm/G
And the wind is so strong
F#/A#
That's why times are so hard
F#m/A                    G#5
It's because of the gods
N.C.
The gods have forgotten the song of their love
        C#m
Singing la la la la la la…
 
[COMPANY and (ORPHEUS)]
C#m
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
C#m
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la...)
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
C#m
Keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la...)
C#m
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
C#m
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la)
 
[EURYDICE]
C#m             B
Lookin' low and lookin' high
 
[FATE]
A                G#m
There is no food left to find
 
[FATE]
C#m                 F#9
It's hard enough to feed yourself
 
[FATE]
A             G#m
Let alone somebody else
 
[EURYDICE]
    C#m       B
I'm trying to believe
         A                 G#m
That the song he's working on
         C#m       B
Is gonna harbor me from
 
[EURYDICE and FATES]
    A         B         C#m
The wind, the wind, the wind
 
[HERMES, spoken]
C#m            B            A
Eurydice was a hungry young girl
 
[EURYDICE, spoken]
            G#m
Give that back!
 
[HERMES, spoken]
    C#m             B
She was no stranger to the wind
 
[EURYDICE, spoken]
A                  G#m
It's everything we have!
 
[HERMES, spoken]
    C#m              B/D#
But she had not seen nothing
 
[EURYDICE]
A    G#m
Orpheus!
 
[HERMES, spoken]
         C#m              B/D#
Like the mighty storm she got caught in
 
[EURYDICE]
F#m   G#m
Orpheus!
C#m B/D#   A/E
Shelter us!
 
[HERMES, spoken]
G#m
Only took a minute
 
[EURYDICE]
C#m B  A
Harbor me!
 
[HERMES, spoken]
A                    G#m
But the wrath of the gods was in it
 
[PERSEPHONE]
F#m
Every year, it's getting worse
 
F#m
Hadestown, hell on Earth!
F#m
Did you think I'd be impressed
F#m
With this neon necropolis?
A                G#m
Lover, what have you become?
A             G#m
Coal cars and oil drums
A                   G#m
Warehouse walls and factory floors
A                B
I don't know you anymore
A                   G#m
And in the meantime up above
A                    G#m
The harvest dies and people starve
A               B
Oceans rise and overflow
B
It ain't right and it ain't natural
 
[HADES]
C#m
Lover, everything I do
C#m
I do it for the love of you
C#m
If you don't even want my love
C#m
I'll give it to someone who does
C#m
Someone grateful for her fate
C#m
Someone who appreciates
C#m
The comforts of a gilded cage
C#m
And doesn't try to fly away
C#m
The moment Mother Nature calls
C#m
Someone who could love these walls
C#m
That hold her close and keep her safe
C#m
And think of them as my embrace
 
[ORPHEUS (COMPANY)]
C#m
Singing la la la la la la la... (Low, keep your head, keep your head low)
 
[EURYDICE]
C#m
Shelter us
 
[HADES]
C#m
Think of them as my embrace
 
[ORPHEUS (COMPANY)]
C#m
La la la la la la la... (Low, keep your head, keep your head)
 
[EURYDICE]
C#m
Harbor me
 
[HADES]
A                G#m  C#m
Think of them as my embrace
N.C.       C#m
Of you
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