Hadestown - Hey Little Songbird Chords & Tabs

by Misc Musicals

[Content]
***BROADWAY VERSION***

[HADES]
Cm           Ab        Gm        Cm
Hey little songbird give me a song
       Cm     Ab        Bb          G
I’m a busy man and I can’t stay long
Cm               Ab          Eb         Dm11
I got clients to call I got orders to fill
Cm             Ab             Eb        G
I got walls to build I got riots to quell
            Cm        Ab              G 
And they’re giving me hell back in Hades
Cm           Ab        Gm              Cm
Hey little songbird cat got your tongue
Cm         Ab          Bb             G  
Always a pity for one so pretty and young
Cm             Ab          Gm        Dm11
When poverty comes to clip your wings
Cm            Ab                          G
And knock the wind right out of your lungs
Cm                Ab     G
Hey nobody sings on empty

[EURYDICE]
Eb                                    Bb Eb
Strange is the call of this strange man
                                     C#Cm
I want to fly down and feed at his hand
Eb                        Bb    G
I want a nice soft place to land
Eb         G            Cm
I wanna lie down forever

[HADES]
Cm         Ab          Gm                 Cm
Hey little songbird you got something fine
Cm                       Ab           Bb   G
You’d shine like a diamond down in the mine
Cm                      Ab                    Gm   Dm11
And the choice is yours if you’re willing to choose
Cm          Ab              Eb      G
Seeing as you’ve got nothing to lose
Cm             Ab     G 
And I could use a canary

[EURYDICE]
Eb                           Bb Eb
Suddenly nothing is as it was
Eb                   Cm  C# Cm
Where are you now Orpheus
Eb                          Bb G
Wasn’t it gonna be two of us
Eb               G           Cm
Weren’t we birds of a feather

[HADES]
Cm           Ab        Gm       Cm
Hey little songbird let me guess
Cm            Ab           Bb            G
He’s some kind of poet and he’s penniless
Cm                  Ab              Eb             Dm11
Give him your hand he’ll give you his hand-to-mouth
Cm                Ab             Eb        G
He’ll write you a poem when the power’s out
        Cm              Ab          G
Hey why not fly south for the winter
Cm           Ab        Gm         Cm   
Hey little songbird look all around you
Cm            Ab           Bb            G  
See how the vipers and vultures surround you
Cm                  Ab              Eb      Dm11
They’ll take you down they’ll pick you clean
Cm                Ab             Eb       G
If you stick around such a desperate scene
        Cm              Ab                G
See people get mean when the chips are down