Hadestown - Livin It Up On Top Chords & Tabs

by Misc Musicals

[Version Description]
Original Broadway Cast Album version.

[Hermes]
Cm                                   Bb/D          
And on the road to hell, there was a lot of waiting

[Company]
Eb/Bb      F/C
Mmm... Waitin'

[Hermes]
Cm                     Bb/D 
Everybody waiting on a train

[Company]
Eb/Bb      F/C                 
Mmm... Waitin' on a lady with a

[Hermes]
Cm                    Bb/D           
Waiting on a train to bring that lady

[Company]
Eb/Bb  F/C 
Mmm... Lady

[Hermes]
         Cm                 Bb/D
With the suitcase back again
Eb/Bb       F/C               
She's never early, always late

[Company]
    Cm       Bb/D
Waitin', waitin'

[Hermes]
      Eb                  F        
These days she never stays for long
    Cm                  Eb/D          Eb
But good things come to those who wait
F              
Here she comes!

[Persephone]
               D               C           
Well it's like he said, I'm an outdoor girl

[Hermes]
D                    C
And you're late again

[Persephone]
D                            C       
Married to the king of the underworld

[Hermes]
       D                         C     
She forgot a little thing called spring

[Persephone]
D                     C           
Are you wondering where I've been?

[WORKER]
D                    
Yeah! Where you been?

[WORKER]
C            
I'm wondering

[Persephone]
D                     C     
Been to hell, and back again
    D                   C    
But like my mama always said:
        D                            C
Brother when you're down, you're down
D                        
When you're up, you're up
   D                    C                 D                  
If you ain't six feet underground, you're living it up on top
C         Bb                   
Let's not talk about hard times
Am       Bb                    
Pour the wine, it's summertime!
Am              D               
'Cause right now we're livin' it

[Company]
C                    
How are we livin' it?

[Persephone]
D                      
Livin' it, livin' it up
C                 D                   
Oh brother, right here we're livin' it

[Company]
      C                
Where are we livin' it?

[Persephone]
D                  C
Livin' it up on top
D                        C            
Who makes the summer sun shine bright?
             D           C
That's right, Persephone!
D                              C        
Who makes the fruit of the vine get ripe

[Company]
D          
Persephone!

[Persephone]
D        C
That's me
D                          C                D        
Who makes the flowers bloom again, in spite of a man?

[Company]
       C
You do!

[Persephone]
D                   C        
Who's doing the best she can?
   D                  C
Persephone, that's who
    D               C                            D         C
Now some might say, the weather ain't the way it used to be
    D                   C               D            C
But let me tell you something that my mama said to me
    Bb                   Am        Bb                 Am
You take what you can get, and you make the most of it
            D               
So right now we're livin' it

[Company]
C                    
How are we livin' it?

[Persephone]
D                      
Livin' it, livin' it up
C                 D                   
Oh brother, right here we're livin' it

[Company]
     C                 
Where are we livin' it?

[Persephone]
D                  
Livin' it up on top

[Hermes]
C      Eb                Eb/F        
It was summertime on the road to hell

[Company]
Gb    
Mmm...

[Hermes]
            Eb                  Db/F    
There was a girl who had always run away

[Company]
Gb    
Mmm...

[Hermes]
Ab        Eb            Db/F            
You might say it was in spite of herself

[Company]
Gb        Ab    
Mmm, Mmm, Mmm...

[Hermes]
          Eb                    Db/F
That this young girl decided to stay
Gb          Ab                  
There was a poor boy with a lyre

[Persephone]
Eb       Db/F           
Who says times are hard?

[Hermes]
    Gb                      Ab            
The flowers bloomed and the fruit got ripe
Eb                Db/F        
And brother for a moment there

[Persephone]
Gb                   Ab
Anybody want a drink?

[Hermes]
    Eb                      Db/F Gb Ab
The world came back to life!

[Persephone]
G7 A7     D             C             
Up on top, we ain't got much But we're

[Company]
D           C
Livin' it up

[Persephone]
     D                      C
Just enough to fill our cups

[Company]
D                  C
Livin' it up on top

[Persephone]
            D                  
Brother pass that bottle around
C           
'Cause we're

[Company]
D                      C
Livin' it, livin' it up

[Hermes]
D                       C    
Let the poet bless this round

[Orpheus]
       A            G               A      G
To the patroness of all of this, Persephone
        A                G          A                   G
Who has finally returned to us with wine enough to share
       F                Em           F             
Asking nothing in return except that we should live
    Em                  F                 Em
And learn to live as brothers in this life
       F                 Em  
And to trust she will provide
       F                    Em           F               Em
And if no one takes too much, there will always be enough
         F                   Em
She will always fill our cups

[Persephone]
Em    
I will

[Orpheus]
            F                 G 
And we will always raise them up
N.C.
To the world we dream about, and the one we live in now
N.C.
'Cause right now we're livin' it

[Company]
G                    
How are we livin' it?

[Orpheus]
A           
Livin' it up
G                 A                   
Oh brother, right here we're livin' it

[Company]
     G                 
Where are we livin' it?

[Orpheus]
A                      G         
Listen here, I'll tell you where.
                  A      
We're livin' it up on top

[Company]
G         
Up on top!

[Orpheus]
A                         G         
Livin' it up and we ain't gonna stop
A                   
Livin' it, livin' it

[Company]
G                   
Livin' it, livin' it

[Orpheus]
   A                 
How are we livin' it?

[Company]
     G                 
Where are we livin' it?

[Orpheus]
A                   
Livin' it, livin' it

[Company]
G                   
Livin' it, livin' it
F            G  A   
Livin' it up on top!