Wait For Me

Hermes:
Em
   How to get to Hadestown:
        C
You’ll have to take the long way down
           G
Through the underground, under cover of night
D
Laying low, staying out of sight
         Em
ain’t no compass, brother, ain’t no map
         C
Just a telephone wire and a railroad track
G
keep on walking and you don’t look back
     D
’Til you get to the bottomland
 
 
Orpheus:
Em       C       G    D
Wait for me, I’m coming
Em       C       G    D
Wait, I’m coming with you
Em       C        G    D
Wait for me, I’m coming too
           Em
I’m coming too
 
 
Hermes:
 
The River Styx is high and wide
C
Cinder bricks and razor wire
G
   Walls of iron and concrete
D
Hound dogs howling 'round the gate
       Em
Those dogs’ll lay down and play dead
        C
If you got the bones, if you got the bread
        G
But if all you got is your own two legs
D
  Just be glad you got ’em
 
 
Orpheus and FATES:
Em       C       G    D
Wait for me, I’m coming
Em       C       G    D
Wait, I’m coming with you
Em       C       G    D
Wait for me, I’m coming too
           Em
I’m coming too
 
Who are you?
Where do you think you're going
Who are you?
Why are you alone?
Who do you think you are?
Who are you to think you can walk a road no one ever walked before?
 
La-da-da-da-da-da-da
la la-la la la la la
 

Hermes:
Em
You’re on the lam, you’re on the run
C
Don’t give your name, you don’t have one
    G
And don’t look no one in the eye
 D
This town will try to suck you dry
        Em
They’ll suck your brain, they’ll suck your breath
          C
They’ll pluck the heart right out your chest
          G
They’ll truss you up in your Sunday best
       D
And stuff your mouth with cotton
 
 
Orpheus and company:
Em       C       G    D
Wait for me, I’m coming
Em       C       G    D
Wait, I’m coming with you
Em       C       G       D
Wait for me, I’m coming too
 
I’m coming!
 

Em
I’m coming, wait for me
C
  I hear the walls repeating
G
  the falling of my feet and
D
  It sounds like drumming
Em
  And I am not alone
C
  I hear the rocks and stones
G
  Echo in my song
D
  I’m coming...