Misc Musicals – Hadestown - Way Down Hadestown Reprise (Guitar)

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[Fates] N.C. The deal is signed? [Eurydice] N.C. Yes [Fates] N.C. About time. Get on the line [Eurydice] N.C. I did what I had to do [Fates] N.C. That's what they did too [Hermes]
Cm                            Bb/D
Now in Hadestown there were a lot of souls
[Workers]
Eb   F
Low, keep your head, keep your head
[Hermes]
Cm                         Bb/D
Working on the wall with all their might
[Workers]
Eb  F
Oh, you gotta keep your head
[Hermes]
    Cm                       Bb/D
You see, they kept their heads down low
[Workers]
Eb F
If you wanna keep your head
[Hermes]
    Cm                         Bb/D
You couldn't quite see their faces right

Eb             F
 But you could hear them singing:
[Workers]
Cm   Bb/D
Low, keep your head, keep your head
[Hermes]
Eb                               F
Swinging their hammers in the cold, hard ground

Cm                            Bb/D
You can hear the sound of the pickaxe ringin'
[Workers]
Eb F
If you wanna keep your head
[Hermes] N.C. And they called it- [Hermes & Workers]
Cm
“Freedom.”
[Eurydice]
Cm     Cm11/D
I’m Eurydice

Dm11/Eb
Doesn't anybody hear me?
[Fates]
Cm11
They can hear

    Cm11/D
But they don't care

Cm11/Eb          Cm11/F
No one has a name down here

Cm        Fm
Mr. Hades set you free

Cm                 G7
To work yourself into the ground

Cm                Fm
Free to spend eternity

       Cm
In the factory

           G7
And the warehouse

          Cm
Where the whistles scream

            Fm
And the foreman shouts

           Cm
And you're punchin' in

    Fm
And punchin' in

    Cm
And punchin' in

        G7
And you can't punch out, and you’re-
[Fates (Workers)]
Cm       Fm
Way down Hadestown (Oh, keep your head, keep your head low)

Eb       Bb/D
Way down Hadestown (Oh, you gotta keep your head low)

Cm       Fm
Way down Hadestown (If you wanna keep your head)

Cm       G         Cm
Way down under the ground! (Keep your head low)
[Eurydice]
Cm                Bb/D
Why won't anybody look at me?
[Fates]
Eb
They can look

    F
But they don't see

    Cm               Bb/D
You see, it's easier that way

Eb                           F
Your eyes will look like that someday

Cm                     Fm
Down in the river of oblivion

Cm                     G
You kissed your little life goodbye
[Fates & Workers]
Cm                 Fm
And Hades laid his hands on you
[Fates]
    Cm                  G
And gave you everlasting life!
[Fates & Workers]
    Cm           Fm
And everlasting overtime
[Fates]
Fm
In the mine

Cm
 The mill
[Fates & Workers]
          G
And the machinery
[Fates (Workers)]
     Cm                Fm
Your place on the assembly line (Ohhhh)
[Fates]
  Cm                 G
Replaces all your memories
[Fates and Workers]
Cm       Fm
Way down Hadestown (Oh, keep your head, keep your head low)

Eb       Bb/D
Way down Hadestown (Oh, you gotta keep your head low)

Cm       Fm
Way down Hadestown (If you wanna keep your head)

Cm       G         Cm
Way down under the ground! (Keep your head low)
[Eurydice]
Cm                              Bb/D
What do you mean I'll look like that?
[Fates]
Eb                              F
That's what it looks like to forget
[Eurydice]
   Cm
Forget what?
[Fates]
        Bb/D
Who you are

Eb                         F
And everything that came before
[Eurydice]
  Cm
I have to go
[Fates]
   Bb/D
Go where?
[Eurydice]
Bb/D
Go back!
[Fates]
Eb
Oh?

    F
And where is that?

Cm                     Bb/D
So what was your name again?

Eb
You've already forgotten
[Hermes]
Cm11                 Cm11/D
You see, it’s like I said before:

Cm11/Eb                 Cm11/F
A lot can happen behind closed doors

Cm11           Cm11/D             Cm11/Eb                Cm11/F
Eurydice was a hungry young girl, but she wasn’t hungry anymore

Cm11                 Cm11/D
What she was instead, was dead-

Cm11/Eb                Cm11/F
 Dead to the world, anyway

Cm11                    Cm11/D
You see, she went behind those doors

Cm11/Eb              Cm11/F
And signed her life away
[Fates]
Cm                 Fm
 Saw that wheel up in the sky

Cm                  G
 Heard the big bell tolling

Cm                   Fm
 A lot of souls have gotta die
[Fates & Workers]
       Cm             G
To keep the Rust Belt rollin'
[Fates]
Cm                   Fm
 A lot of spirits gotta break
[Fates & Workers]
       Cm             G
To make the underworld go 'round
[Fates]
Cm       Fm
Way down Hadestown
[Fates & Workers] N.C. Way down under the ground!