Misc Musicals – Hadestown - Chant (Guitar)

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

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Keep your head, keep your head low

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Oh, you gotta keep your head low

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If you wanna keep your head

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Oh, you gotta keep your head

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In the coldest time of year

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Why is it so hot down here?

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It ain't right and it ain't natural

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Lover, you were gone so long

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Lover, I was lonesome

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So I built a foundry

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In the ground beneath your feet

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Here, I fashioned things of steel

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Oil drums and automobiles

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Then I kept that furnace fed

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With the fossils of the dead

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Lover, when you feel that fire

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Think of it as my desire

A              G#m           Bbm
Think of it as my desire for you!

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

Ebm/Gb
Laa laa, la la la la

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

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)

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In the darkest time of year

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Why is it so bright down here?

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Brighter than a carnival

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It ain't right and it ain't natural

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Lover, you were gone so long

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Lover, I was lonesome

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So I laid a power grid

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In the ground on which you stood

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And wasn't it electrifying

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When I made the neon shine?

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Silver screen, cathode ray

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Brighter than the light of day

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Lover, when you see that glare

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Think of it as my despair

A              G#             A#m
Think of it as my despair for you!

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)

Bbm
His black gold flows (Oooooh) In the world down below (Oooooh)

Eb/Bb
And her dark clouds roll in the one up above

Eb/Bb
Look up!

               Bbm/Ab
Keep your head low

Bbm/Ab
And that is the reason we're on this road

Eb/G
And the seasons are wrong

F#/A#
That's why times are so hard

F#m/A                    G#5
It's because of the gods

        C#m
Singing la la la la la la…

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)

C#m             B
Lookin' low and lookin' high

A                G#m
There is no food left to find

C#m                 F#9
It's hard enough to feed yourself

A             G#m
Let alone somebody else

    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

    A         B         C#m
The wind, the wind, the wind

C#m            B            A
Eurydice was a hungry young girl

            G#m
Give that back!

    C#m             B
She was no stranger to the wind

A                  G#m
It's everything we have!

    C#m              B/D#
But she had not seen nothing

A    G#m
Orpheus!

         C#m              B/D#
Like the mighty storm she got caught in

F#m   G#m
Orpheus!

C#m B/D#   A/E
Shelter us!

G#m
Only took a minute

C#m B  A
Harbor me!

A                    G#m
But the wrath of the gods was in it

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

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Lover, everything I do

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I do it for the love of you

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If you don't even want my love

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I'll give it to someone who does

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Someone grateful for her fate

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Someone who appreciates

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The comforts of a gilded cage

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And doesn't try to fly away

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The moment Mother Nature calls

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Someone who could love these walls

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That hold her close and keep her safe

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And think of them as my embrace

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Singing la la la la la la la... (Low, keep your head, keep your head low)

C#m
Shelter us

C#m
Think of them as my embrace

C#m
La la la la la la la... (Low, keep your head, keep your head)

C#m
Harbor me

A                G#m  C#m
Think of them as my embrace

N.C.       C#m
Of you