Misc Musicals – Hadestown - Livin It Up On Top (Guitar Live)

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[Intro] D C D C Dm C D5 [Ballad]
                               C5
Well it’s like he said, I’m an outdoor girl

D5                   C5
Livin' it, livin' it up

D5                         C5
Married to the king of the Underworld

D
Livin' it up on top

          C5
Trying to enjoy myself

D          C5
Livin' it, livin' it up

D                 C5
Six months out of every twelve

D
Livin' it up on top

                               C
When the sun is high, brother, so am I

         Dm        C5
Drinking dandelion wine

D                         C
Brother, I’m as free as a honeybee

     Dm                  D
In a summertime frame of mind

            A#         C5
And when my man comes around

      A#                       A5   Am
Oh, I know he’s gonna bring me down

        Dm
But for now I’m livin' it

C
How are you livin' it?

D                    C
Livin' it, livin' it up

         D
Brother, right here I’m livin' it

C
Where are you livin' it?

C               D5
Livin' it up on top!

    A5                              G
Now why would a man of his own free will--

     A5
He’s talking about your man!

         Am                  A5
-- go to work all day in the mine, in the mill?

Am                 A5
You think I give a damn?

Am                     D
Why would he trade the sunshine--

A5
Tell him how it is, brother!

                               G
-- for a couple of nickels and dimes?

          Am    A5                   G5
Oh, up on top a man can breathe when he’s-

A5                   G5
Livin' it, livin' it up

        A5                   G
Picking fruit in the orchard trees

A               D
Livin' it up on top

       A        Am        G
No one here’s a millionaire, but we’re-

A
Livin' it, livin' it up

                         G
What we have, we have to share!

A
Livin' it up on top

                       Am                   G
Come on! Say, brother, give me a lyre and a campfire

       A
And an open field at night

                               G
Give me the sky that you can’t buy

   A
Or sell at any price

D        F                   Em
And I’ll give you a song for free

              F               Em
‘Cause that’s how life oughta be!

          A
So that’s how I’m livin' it!

G
How are you livin' it?

A
Livin' it, livin' it up
Oh, brother, right here we’re livin' it
G
Where are you livin' it?

A               D
Livin' it up on top
A5 A D A
    D               C
And that is how the summer went

D
Oh, I’m just getting started!

                                C
Oh, the flowers bloomed and the fruit got ripe

D                  G
Who says times are hard?

        D                             C
And the lovers took each other by the hand

D
Anybody want a drink?
And danced underneath the sky
      G                D
Up on top we ain’t got much
But we’re- Livin' it, livin' it up
               G
Just enough to fill our cups

D
Livin' it up on top

                           G
Brother, pass that bottle around, cause we’re-

D                    G
Livin' it, livin' it up

        D               G       D G
Let the poet bless this round!

       A            G               A
To the patroness of all of this: Persephone!

G
Here, here!

       A                G
To the sunshine and the fruit of the vine

    A              G
She gives us every year

       F            Em    E           F
Asking nothing in return, except that we should live

    Em               F                 Em    E
And learn to live as brothers in this life

       F               Em
And to trust she will provide

   F                E                F          Em
If no one takes too much, there will always be enough

         F               Em
She will always fill our cups

            F                 G
And we will always raise them up!
N.C. Let the world we dream about be the one we live in now! ‘Cause right now we’re livin' it-
G
How are you livin' it?

A                    D
Livin' it, livin' it up

               A
Brother, right here we're livin’ it

G
Where are you livin' it?

A                          D
Listen here, I’ll tell you where we’re livin' it!

A5         A
Up on top!

D     G
Up on top!

A                   D
Livin' it up and we ain’t gonna stop!

A
Livin' it, livin' it

G
Livin' it, livin' it

D5              A
Livin' it up on top!