Hadestown - Epic Ii Cifras

Original Broadway Cast Album version.
 
[Verse 1]
Bb
King of silver
C
King of gold
Bb
And everything glittering
      C
Under the ground
Bb
Hades is king
   B
Of oil and coal
Bb
And the riches that flow
            B
Where those rivers are found
 
[Verse 2]
Bb                                    C
But for half of the year with Persephone gone
Bb                         C
His loneliness moves in him crude and black
Bb                               C
He thinks of his wife in the arms of the sun
    Bb            B        Bb               C
And jealousy fuels him and feeds him and fills him
     Bb                      C
With doubt that she'll never come
Bb                C
Dread that she'll never come
Bb             C
Doubt that his lover
     C7
Will ever come back
 
[Verse 3]
Bb
King of mortar
C
King of bricks
Bb                  C11
The River Styx is a river of stones
Bb                       C11
And Hades lays them high and thick
Bb                            C11
With a million hands that are not his own
 
[Verse 4]
Bb                             C11
With a million hands, he builds a wall
       Bb                              C11
Around all the riches he digs from the Earth
Bb
The pickaxe flashes
C11
The hammer falls
Bb               C
And crashing and pounding
Bb           C
As rivers surround him
Bb            C
And drown out the sound of the song he once heard:
 
[Verse 5]
Bb       C        Dm
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Bb       C        D
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Bb       C        Dm
La la la la la la la...
Bb       C
La la la la la la...
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