Hadestown Original Broadway Company — Chant

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Low, keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head
Oh, you gotta keep your head

In the coldest time of year
Why is it so hot down here?
Hotter than a crucible
It ain’t right and it ain’t natural

Lover, you were gone so long
Lover, I was lonesome
So I built a foundry
In the ground beneath your feet
Here, I fashioned things of steel
Oil drums and automobiles
Then I kept that furnace fed
With the fossils of the dead
Lover, when you feel that fire
Think of it as my desire
Think of it as my desire for you!

La la la la
La la la la la
La la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la

Low, keep your head, keep your head low

La la la la la la la…

Is it finished?

Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head

La la la la la la la…

Not yet

Oh, you gotta keep your head low
Keep your head, keep your head low

La la la la la la la…

Is he always like this?

Oh, you gotta keep your head low
If you wanna keep your head-

Looking high and looking low
For the food and firewood I know we need to find
And I am keeping one eye in the sky
And try to trust that the song he’s working on (Ooh)
Is gonna shelter us
From the wind, the wind, the wind

In the darkest time of year
Why is it so bright down here?
Brighter than a carnival
It ain’t right and it ain’t natural

Lover, you were gone so long
Lover, I was lonesome
So I laid a power grid
In the ground on which you stood
And wasn’t it electrifying
When I made the neon shine!
Silver screen, cathode ray
Brighter than the light of day
Lover, when you see that glare
Think of it as my despair
Think of it as my despair for you!

I can’t find the tune

Orpheus!

I can’t feel the rhythm

Orpheus!

King Hades is deafened by a river of stone

Poor boy working on a song

And Lady Persephone’s blinded by a river of wine
Living in an oblivion

He did not see the storm coming on

His black gold flows
In the world down below
And her dark clouds roll in the one up above

Look up!

Keep your head low

And that is the reason we’re on this road
And the seasons are wrong
And the wind is so strong
That’s why times are so hard
It’s because of the gods
The gods have forgotten the song of their love

Singing la la la la la la…

Low, keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low

La la la la la la la…

If you wanna keep your head
Oh, you gotta keep your head low

La la la la la la la…

Keep your head, keep your head low
Oh, you gotta keep your head low

La la la la la la

If you wanna keep your head-

Lookin’ low and lookin’ high

There is no food left to find
It’s hard enough to feed yourself
Let alone somebody else

I’m trying to believe
That the song he’s working on
Is gonna harbor me from

The wind, the wind, the wind

Eurydice was a hungry young girl

Give that back!

She was no stranger to the wind

It’s everything we have!

But she had not seen nothing

Orpheus!

Like the mighty storm she got caught in

Orpheus!
Shelter us!

Only took a minute

Harbor me!

But the wrath of the gods was in it

Every year, it’s getting worse
Hadestown, hell on Earth!
Did you think I’d be impressed
With this neon necropolis?
Lover, what have you become
Coal cars and oil drums
Warehouse walls and factory floors
I don’t know you anymore
And in the meantime up above
The harvest dies and people starve
Oceans rise and overflow
It ain’t right and it ain’t natural

Lover, everything I do
I do it for the love of you
If you don’t even want my love
I’ll give it to someone who does
Someone grateful for her fate
Someone who appreciates
The comforts of a gilded cage
And doesn’t try to fly away
The moment Mother Nature calls
Someone who could love these walls
That hold her close and keep her safe
And think of them as my embrace

Singing: la la la la la la la…

Low, keep your head, keep your head low

Shelter us

Think of them as my embrace

La la la la la la la…

Low, keep your head, keep your head-

Harbor me

Think of them as my embrace
Of you