Hadestown - Hey Little Songbird chords by Soundtracks

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Hades:
Cm9Cm9        AbAb Gm7Gm7
Hey, little songbird, give me a song
C minorCm     AbAb    Bb majorBb      G7G7
I'm a busy man and I can't stay long
   C minorCm      AbAb    Eb MajorEb       Bb/DBb/D
I got clients to call, I got orders to fill
     Cm7Cm7   AbAb    Eb MajorEb       G7G7
I got walls to build, I got riots to quell
      C minorCm     AbAb     G7G7
And they're giving me hell back in Hades

Hades:
Cm9Cm9        AbAb Gm7Gm7      C minorCm
Hey, little songbird, cat got your tongue?
C minorCm    AbAb    Bb majorBb   G7G7
Always a pity for one so pretty and young
C minorCm      AbAb    Eb MajorEb       Bb/DBb/D
When poverty comes to clip your wings
  Cm7Cm7      AbAb   Eb MajorEb        G7G7
And knock the wind right out of your lungs
   C minorCm    AbAb     G7G7
Hey, nobody sings on empty

Eurydice:
Eb MajorEb        Eb/GEb/G   Eb MajorEb     Eb6Eb6
Strange is the call of this strange man
Eb MajorEb     C minorCm      DbDb      C minorCm
I wanna fly down and feed at his hand
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7       Bb majorBb      G7G7
I want a nice, soft place to land
Eb MajorEb   G7G7     Cm9Cm9
I wanna lie down forever

Hades:
      AbAb   Gm7Gm7           C minorCm
Hey, little songbird, you've got something fine
   C minorCm      AbAb   Bb majorBb        G7G7
You'd shine like a diamond down in the mine
      C minorCm    AbAb    Eb MajorEb      Bb/DBb/D
And the choice is yours if you're willing to choose
Cm7Cm7      AbAb   Eb MajorEb       G7G7
Seeing as you've got nothing to lose
   C minorCm    AbAb  G7G7
And I could use a canary

Eurydice:
Eb MajorEb    Eb/GEb/G    Bb majorBb    Eb6Eb6
Suddenly nothing is as it was
Eb MajorEb       C minorCm DbDb    C minorCm
Where are you now, Orpheus?
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7         Bb majorBb     G7G7
Wasn't it gonna be the two of us?
Eb MajorEb       G7G7     Cm9Cm9
Weren't we birds of a feather?

Hades:
         AbAb Gm7Gm7      C minorCm
Hey, little songbird, let me guess
   C minorCm       AbAb Bb majorBb      G7G7
He's some kind of poet and he's penniless
C minorCm        AbAb    Eb MajorEb       Bb/DBb/D
Give him your hand, he'll give you his hand-to-mouth
Cm7Cm7          AbAb    Eb MajorEb      G7G7
He'll write you a poem when the power is out
   C minorCm       AbAb     G7G7
Hey, why not fly south for the winter?

Hades:
Cm9Cm9       AbAb  Gm7Gm7       C minorCm
Hey, little songbird, look all around you
      AbAb     Bb majorBb     G7G7
See how the vipers and vultures surround you
      C minorCm     AbAb     Eb MajorEb       Bb/DBb/D
And they'll take you down, they'll pick you clean
    Cm9Cm9    AbAb    Eb MajorEb       G7G7
If you stick around such a desperate scene
   C minorCm       AbAb    G7G7
See, people get mean when the chips are down

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