Misc Musicals – Hadestown - Epic I (Guitar)

Gm
Where'd you get that melody?

F
I don’t know, It came to me

Gm
As if I'd known it all along

    F
You have, It's an old song

Gm
A song of love from long ago

F
Long-time since I heard it though

Gm                       F
You’ve heard that melody before?

C
Sure

C
Tell me more

Gm                                          F
Remember the tale I told you once about the Gods?

F
Which ones?

Gm
Hades and Persephone

F
Remember how it used to be

           Gm
Their love that made the world go round?

F
Yeah, I remember now

Gm                 F
But that was long ago

C
Tell it again though

Bb
King of shadows

C
King of shades

Bb                    C
Hades was king of the Underworld

Bb                             C
But he fell in love with a beautiful lady

           Bb                      C
Who walked up above in her mother's green field

Bb                      C
He fell in love with Persephone

        Bb                                    C
Who was gathering flowers in the light of the sun

       Bb                          C
And he took her home to become his queen

          Bb
Where the sun never shone

   C
On anyone

C
Go on...

    Bb                     C
The lady loved him and the kingdom they shared

        Bb                     C
But without her above, not one flower would grow

        Bb                                 C
So King Hades agreed that for half of each year

          Bb                         C
She would stay with him there in his world down below

Bb                                 C
But the other half, she could walk in the sun

Bb                                C
And the sun, in turn, burned twice as bright

Bb                         C
Which is where the seasons come from

    Bb             C
And with them, the cycle

       Bb           C
Of the seed and the sickle

        Bb           C
And the lives of the people

        B
And the birds in their flight

B
Singing...

Bb       C        Dm
La la la la la la la...

Dm
Down below and up above

Bb       C        D
La la la la la la la...

D
In harmony and rhythm

Bb       C        Dm
La la la la la la la...

Dm
The Gods sang his song of love

Bb       C
La la la la la la la...

        Bb
And the world sang it with them