Way Down Hadestown (Reprise) chords by
Hadestown Original Broadway Company
Anaïs Mitchell
Hadestown 
Key: C minor
Intro 1
Gm
Gm
Gm
Gm
Cm
Gm
I did what I had to do
Eb
F
That's what they did too
Verse 1
Cm
Gm
Now in Hadestown there were a lot of souls
Eb
F
(Oh, keep your head, keep your head)
Cm
Gm
Workin' on a wall with all their might
Eb
F
(Huh, oh, you gotta keep your head)
Cm
Gm
You see, they kept their heads down low
Eb
F
(Huh, if you wanna keep your head)
Cm
Gm
You couldn't quite see their faces right
Eb
F
But you could hear them singing
Cm
Gm
(Oh, keep your head, keep your head)
Cm
Gm
You can hear the sound of the pick-axe ringin'
Eb
F
(Huh, if you wanna keep...)
Gm
Cm
And they called it freedom
Interlude 1
Cm
Gm
I'm Eurydice
Eb
F
Doesn't anybody hear me?
Eb
F
No one has a name down here
Verse 2
Cm
Fm
Mister Hades set you free
Cm
G
To work yourself into the ground
Cm
Fm
Free to spend eternity
Chorus 1
Cm
Fm
And you're way down Hadestown
Eb
Bb
Way down Hadestown
Cm
Fm
Way down Hadestown
Cm
G
Cm
Way down under the ground
Interlude 2
Cm
Gm
Why won't anybody look at me?
Eb
F
They can look, but they don't see
Cm
Gm
You see? That's easier that way
Eb
F
Your eyes will look like that some day
Verse 3
Cm
Fm
Down in the river of oblivion
Cm
G
You kissed your little life goodbye
Cm
Fm
And Hades laid his hands on you
Cm
G
And gave ya everlasting life
Cm
Fm
And everlasting overtime
Cm
Fm
Your place on the assembly line
Cm
G
Replaces all your memories
Chorus 2
Cm
Fm
Way down Hadestown
Eb
Gm
Way down Hadestown
Cm
Fm
Way down Hadestown
Cm
G
Cm
Way down under the ground
Interlude 3
Cm
Gm
What do you mean I'll look like that?
Eb
F
That's what it looks like to forget
Gm
Eb
Who you are and everything
Go back
Eb
F
Oh? And where is that?
Cm
Gm
So, what was your name again?
Eb
F
You've already forgotten
Interlude 4
Eurydice was a hungry young girl
But she wasn't hungry anymore
Dead to the world anyway
And signed her life away
Verse 4
Cm
Fm
(A- ooh) Saw that wheel up in the sky
Cm
G
Heard the big bell tolling
Cm
Fm
A lotta souls have gotta die
Cm
G
To keep the rust belt rolling
Cm
Fm
A lotta spirits gotta break
Cm
G
To make the underworld go 'round
Outro 1
Cm
Fm
Way down Hadestown (Huh!)
Cm
G
Cm
Way down under the ground
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