Chords for Hadestown Original Broadway Cast - How Long? - Lyrics

[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ What are you afraid of?
What?
He's just a boy in [Bb] love.
Have [Gm] a drink, why don't you?
No, I've had enough.
_ He loves that girl, Hades.
[E] Well, [Gm] that's too bad.
[Bb] He has the kind of [Dm] love for her that you and I once had.
[Gm] _
[A] The girl means [Dm] nothing to me.
_ _ [Gm]
I know, [Am] but she [Gm] means [Dm] everything to [Gm] him.
So?
_ Let her [Bb] go. _
_ _ _ Hades, my husband _
_ [F] Hades, my _ light
[Bb] Hades, _ my [Gm] darkness _
_ _ _ If you had heard how he [C] sang tonight
_ [F] _ _
You'd [E] pity poor [Bb] _ _ Orpheus
[Gm] _ _ All of his sorrow [F]
won't fit [D] in his chest
It [Gm] just burns like a [Bb] fire in the pit [F] of his chest
[Gm] And his heart is a [Bb] bird on a spit in [F] his chest
[Bb] How long, [F] how [Gm] long, how long?
_ [Bb] How long?
Just as long as Hades is [C] king _
[Bb] _ [C] Nothing _ [Bb] comes of wishing on _ _ _ stars
[Gm] And [Bb] nothing comes [G] of the songs people [C] _ sing
_ _ _ However [Bb] sorry they _ [Gm] are
_ _ _ Give them a piece [Dm] and they'll [D] take it [Gm] all
Show them a crack, [Bb] they'll tear down the [Cm] wall
[Gm] _ Lend them an ear _ [Bb] _
and the [F] kingdom will fall
[Bb] The kingdom will [F] fall [Gm] for us _ all
_ [Bb]
What does he care for the logic [C] of kings?
_ [F] The laws of your [Gm] _ underworld? _ _ _
It is only for [E] love that he [Bb] sings
_ He sings for the love of a girl
[Gm] _
You and your pity [Dm] don't fit in my [D] bed
[Gm] You just burn like a fire [Bb] in the pit [Am] of my bed
[Gm] And I turn like a bird on [Bb] a spit in [Am] my bed
[Bb]
How long, [Dm] how [Gm] long, how _ long?
[Bb] How long?
Just as long as I [C] am your wife
_ _ It's true, the earth must [Bb] _ _ _
[Dm] die
[Gm] _ Then the earth comes _ [E] to life
[Bb] And the sun [C] must go [Gm] on _ _ rising
And how does the sun [F]
even fit [D] in the sky?
It [Gm] just burns like a [Bb] fire in the pit [Am] of the sky
[Gm] And the earth is a [Bb] bird on a spit in [A] the sky
[Bb] How long, [F] how _ long, [Gm] how long? _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _