Intro: Dbm

Workers:
Dbm
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Dbm
If you wanna keep your head
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Dbm
Keep your head, keep your head low
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Dbm
If you wanna keep your head
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head

Persephone:
Dbm
In the coldest time of year
Dbm
Why is it so hot down here?
Hotter than a crucible
Dbm
It ain't right and it ain't natural

Hades:
Dbm
Lover, you were gone so long
Dbm
Lover, I was lonesome
Dbm
So I built a foundry
Dbm
In the ground beneath your feet
Dbm
Here, I fashioned things of steel
Dbm
Oil drums and automobiles
Dbm
Then I kept that furnace fed
Dbm
With the fossils of the dead
Dbm
Lover, when you feel that fire
Dbm
Think of it as my desire
A              Abm           Bbm
Think of it as my desire for you!

Orpheus(workers):
Bbm
La la la la La la la la la
Eb
La la, La lam La la la la la
Ebm
Laa, La la la la la
Eb
Laa, La la la la la
Bbm
Laa laa, La la la la la la
Eb
Laa, la la la la la
Ebm
Laa laa, la la la la

Workers(orpheus):
Dbm
Low, keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Dbm
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la…)
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
Dbm
Keep your head, keep your head low
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low (La la la la la la la…)
Dbm
If you wanna keep your head

Eurydice (fates):
Dbm              B
Looking high and looking low
A                Abm
For the food and firewood I know
Dbm        Gb9
We need to find and I am
A               Abm
Keeping one eye on the sky and
Dbm       B              A                 Abm
Tryin' to trust that the song he's working on is gonna (Oooooh)
Dbm     B
Shelter us (Oooooh)
         A         B         Dbm
From the wind, the wind, the wind (Oooooh)

Instrumental: A Dbm Abm Db Abm Dbm

Persephone:
Dbm
In the darkest time of year
Dbm
Why is it so bright down here?
Dbm
Brighter than a carnival
Dbm
It ain't right and it ain't natural

Hades:
Dbm
Lover, you were gone so long
Dbm
Lover, I was lonesome
Dbm
So I laid a power grid
Dbm
In the ground on which you stood
Dbm
And wasn't it electrifying
Dbm
When I made the neon shine?
Dbm
Silver screen, cathode ray
Dbm
Brighter than the light of day
Dbm
Lover, when you see that glare
Dbm
Think of it as my despair
A              Ab             Bbm
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
King Hades is deafened by a river of stone (Poor boy working on a song)
Bbm                                         Eb
And Lady Persephone's blinded by a river of wine
Eb
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
And her dark clouds roll in the one up above

Hermes:
Eb
Look up!

Company:
               Bbm
Keep your head low

Orpheus:
Bbm
And that is the reason we're on this road
Eb
And the seasons are wrong
DEbm/G
And the wind is so strong
Gb
That's why times are so hard
Gbm                      Ab5
It's because of the gods
(nc)
The gods have forgotten the song of their love
        Dbm
Singing la la la la la la…

Company and (orpheus):
Dbm
Low, keep your head, keep your head low
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Dbm
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la la...)
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Dbm
Keep your head, keep your head low (La la la la la la la...)
Dbm
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Dbm
If you wanna keep your head (La la la la la la)

Eurydice:
Dbm             B
Lookin' low and lookin' high

Fate:
A                Abm
There is no food left to find

Fate:
Dbm                 Gb9
It's hard enough to feed yourself

Fate:
A             Abm
Let alone somebody else

Eurydice:
    Dbm       B
I'm trying to believe
         A                 Abm
That the song he's working on
         Dbm       B
Is gonna harbor me from

Eurydice and fates:
    A         B         Dbm
The wind, the wind, the wind

Hermes, spoken:
Dbm            B            A
Eurydice was a hungry young girl

Eurydice, spoken:
            Abm
Give that back!

Hermes, spoken:
    Dbm             B
She was no stranger to the wind

Eurydice, spoken:
A                  Abm
It's everything we have!

Hermes, spoken:
    Dbm              B
But she had not seen nothing

Eurydice:
A    Abm
Orpheus!

Hermes, spoken:
         Dbm              B
Like the mighty storm she got caught in

Eurydice:
Gbm   Abm
Orpheus!
Dbm B      A
Shelter us!

Hermes, spoken:
Abm
Only took a minute

Eurydice:
Dbm B  A
Harbor me!

Hermes, spoken:
A                    Abm
But the wrath of the gods was in it

Persephone:
Gbm
Every year, it's getting worse

Gbm
Hadestown, hell on Earth!
Gbm
Did you think I'd be impressed
Gbm
With this neon necropolis?
A                Abm
Lover, what have you become?
A             Abm
Coal cars and oil drums
A                   Abm
Warehouse walls and factory floors
A                B
I don't know you anymore
A                   Abm
And in the meantime up above
A                    Abm
The harvest dies and people starve
A               B
Oceans rise and overflow
B
It ain't right and it ain't natural

Hades:
Dbm
Lover, everything I do
Dbm
I do it for the love of you
Dbm
If you don't even want my love
Dbm
I'll give it to someone who does
Dbm
Someone grateful for her fate
Dbm
Someone who appreciates
Dbm
The comforts of a gilded cage
Dbm
And doesn't try to fly away
Dbm
The moment Mother Nature calls
Dbm
Someone who could love these walls
Dbm
That hold her close and keep her safe
Dbm
And think of them as my embrace

Orpheus (company):
Dbm
Singing la la la la la la la... (Low, keep your head, keep your head low)

Eurydice:
Dbm
Shelter us

Hades:
Dbm
Think of them as my embrace

Orpheus (company):
Dbm
La la la la la la la... (Low, keep your head, keep your head)

Eurydice:
Dbm
Harbor me

Hades:
A                Abm  Dbm
Think of them as my embrace
(nc)       Dbm
Of you
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