12 Chords used in the song: Cm, Bb/D, Eb, F, Cm11/D, Dm11/Eb, Cm11, Cm11/Eb, Cm11/F, Fm, G7, G
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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
You can hear the sound of the
Bb/D
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
What do you mean I'll look like
Bb/D
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
Eurydice was a hungry young girl,
Cm11/Eb Cm11/F
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!
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