Intro C#m WORKERS 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 C#m 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 PERSEPHONE C#m In the coldest time of year C#m Why is it so hot down here? Hotter than a crucible C#m It ain't right and it ain't natural HADES C#m Lover, you were gone so long C#m Lover, I was lonesome C#m So I built a foundry C#m In the ground beneath your feet C#m Here, I fashioned things of steel C#m Oil drums and automobiles C#m Then I kept that furnace fed C#m With the fossils of the dead C#m Lover, when you feel that fire C#m Think of it as my desire A G#m Bbm Think of it as my desire for you! ORPHEUS(WORKERS) 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 Eb/g Laa, la la la la la Ebm/Gb Laa laa, la la la la WORKERS(ORPHEUS) 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 EURYDICE (FATES) 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) Instrumental A C#m G#m C# G#m C#m PERSEPHONE C#m In the darkest time of year C#m Why is it so bright down here? C#m Brighter than a carnival C#m It ain't right and it ain't natural HADES C#m Lover, you were gone so long C#m Lover, I was lonesome C#m So I laid a power grid C#m In the ground on which you stood C#m And wasn't it electrifying C#m When I made the neon shine? C#m Silver screen, cathode ray C#m Brighter than the light of day C#m Lover, when you see that glare C#m Think of it as my despair A G# A#m Think of it as my despair for you! ORPHEUS (HERMES) 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) ORPHEUS (FATES and HERMES) Bbm His black gold flows (Oooooh) In the world down below (Oooooh) Eb/Bb And her dark clouds roll in the one up above HERMES Eb/Bb Look up! COMPANY Bbm/Ab Keep your head low ORPHEUS Bbm/Ab And that is the reason we're on this road Eb/G And the seasons are wrong DEbm/G And the wind is so strong F#/A# That's why times are so hard F#m/A G#5 It's because of the gods N.C. The gods have forgotten the song of their love C#m Singing la la la la la la… COMPANY and (ORPHEUS) 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) EURYDICE C#m B Lookin' low and lookin' high FATE A G#m There is no food left to find FATE C#m F#9 It's hard enough to feed yourself FATE A G#m Let alone somebody else EURYDICE 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 EURYDICE and FATES A B C#m The wind, the wind, the wind HERMES, spoken C#m B A Eurydice was a hungry young girl EURYDICE, spoken G#m Give that back! HERMES, spoken C#m B She was no stranger to the wind EURYDICE, spoken A G#m It's everything we have! HERMES, spoken C#m B/D# But she had not seen nothing EURYDICE A G#m Orpheus! HERMES, spoken C#m B/D# Like the mighty storm she got caught in EURYDICE F#m G#m Orpheus! C#m B/D# A/E Shelter us! HERMES, spoken G#m Only took a minute EURYDICE C#m B A Harbor me! HERMES, spoken A G#m But the wrath of the gods was in it PERSEPHONE 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 HADES C#m Lover, everything I do C#m I do it for the love of you C#m If you don't even want my love C#m I'll give it to someone who does C#m Someone grateful for her fate C#m Someone who appreciates C#m The comforts of a gilded cage C#m And doesn't try to fly away C#m The moment Mother Nature calls C#m Someone who could love these walls C#m That hold her close and keep her safe C#m And think of them as my embrace ORPHEUS (COMPANY) C#m Singing la la la la la la la... (Low, keep your head, keep your head low) EURYDICE C#m Shelter us HADES C#m Think of them as my embrace ORPHEUS (COMPANY) C#m La la la la la la la... (Low, keep your head, keep your head) EURYDICE C#m Harbor me HADES A G#m C#m Think of them as my embrace N.C. C#m Of you
