Misc Musicals – Hadestown - How Long (Guitar)

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[PERSEPHONE]
Bb                       C/Bb
Hades, my husband, Hades, my light

C/Bb           Gm9
Hades, my darkness

Gm7                                C/Bb
If you had heard how he sang tonight

C/Bb              Gm9
You'd pity poor Orpheus!

Gm7                     Dm7        D7
All of his sorrow won't fit in his chest

        Gm7                      Bb         F/A
It just burns like a fire in the pit of his chest

        Gm7                  Bb          F/A
And his heart is a bird on a spit in his chest

     Bb       F/A       Gm7
How long, how long, how long?
[HADES]
    Bb                             C/Bb
How long? Just as long as Hades is King

C/Bb                           Gm9
Nothing comes of wishing on stars

Gm7                                   C/Bb
And nothing comes of the songs people sing

C/Bb                Gm9
However sorry they are

Gm7                      Dm7           D7
Give them a piece and they'll take it all

Gm7                             Bb            F/A
Show them the crack and they'll tear down the wall

Gm7                      Bb           F/A
Lend them an ear and the Kingdom will fall

Bb               F/A        Gm9
The Kingdom will fall for a song
[PERSEPHONE]
Bb                                 C/Bb
What does he care for the logic of kings?

C/Bb                   Gm9
The laws of your underworld?

Gm7                         C/Bb
It is only for love that he sings!

   C/Bb                     Gm9
He sings for the love of a girl
[HADES]
Gm9                     Dm7       D7
You and your pity don't fit in my bed

         Gm7                     Bb        F/A
You just burn like a fire in the pit of my bed

      Gm7                   Bb         F/A
And I turn like a bird on a spit in my bed

    Bb        F/A       Gm9
How long, how long, how long?
[PERSEPHONE]
    Bb                              C/Bb
How long? Just as long as I am your wife

C/Bb                       Gm9
It's true the earth must die

Gm7                              C/Bb
But then the earth comes back to life

C/Bb                     Gm9
And the sun just goes on rising
[HADES & PERSEPHONE]
    Gm7                   Dm7        D7
And how does the sun even fit in the sky?

        Gm7                      Bb         F/A
It just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky

        Gm7                  Bb          F/A
And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky

    Bb        F/A       Gm9
How long, how long, how long?