[Flame] 🔥 Hadestown Original Broadway Cast - Way Down Hadestown Lyrics
[HERMES]
On the Road to Hell there was a railroad track
[PERSEPHONE, spoken]
Oh, come on!
[HERMES]
There was a train comin’ up from way down below
[PERSEPHONE, spoken]
That was not six months!
[FATES]
Better go and get your suitcase packed, guess it’s time to go
[HERMES]
She’s gonna ride that train
[COMPANY]
Ride that train…
[HERMES]
She’s gonna ride that train
[COMPANY]
Ride that train!
[HERMES]
She’s gonna ride that train ’til the end of the line
‘Cause the King of the Mine is coming to call
Did you ever wonder what it’s like on the underside?
[COMPANY]
Way down under
[HERMES]
On the yonder side?
[COMPANY]
Way down yonder
[HERMES]
On the other side of his wall
Follow that dollar for a long way down
Far away from the poorhouse door
You either get to hell or to Hadestown
Ain’t no difference anymore !
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Hound dog howl and the whistle blow
Train come a-rollin, clickety-clack
Everybody tryin’ to get a ticket to go
But those who go they don’t come back
They goin’
[HERMES and COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
[HERMES, spoken]
Ha!
[PERSEPHONE]
Winter’s nigh and summer’s o’er
Hear that high, lonesome sound
Of my husband coming for
To bring me home to Hadestown
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
[PERSEPHONE]
Down there, it’s a bunch of stiffs
Brother, I’ll be bored to death
Gonna have to import some stuff
Just to entertain myself
Give me morphine in a tin
Give me a crate of the fruit of the vine
Takes a lot of medicine
To make it through the wintertime
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
[FATES]
Every little penny in the wishing well
Every little nickel on the drum
[COMPANY]
On the drum!
[FATES]
All them shiny little heads and tails
Where do you think they come from?
They come from
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
[HERMES]
Everybody hungry
Everybody tired
Everybody slaves by the sweat of his brow
The wage is nothing and the work is hard It’s a graveyard in Hadestown
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
As the band plays, you can hear HERMES, PERSEPHONE, the FATES, and COMPANY exclaiming in the background. They seem to be having a party
[HERMES]
Mr. Hades is a mean old boss
[PERSEPHONE]
With a silver whistle and a golden scale
[COMPANY]
An eye for an eye!
[HERMES]
And he weighs the cost
[COMPANY]
A lie for a lie!
[HERMES]
And your soul for sale
[COMPANY]
Sold!
[PERSEPHONE]
To the king on the chromium throne
[COMPANY]
Thrown!
[PERSEPHONE]
To the bottom of a Sing Sing cell
[HERMES]
Where the little wheel squeals and the big wheel groans
[PERSEPHONE]
And you better forget about your wishing well
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
[HERMES, spoken]
On the Road to Hell, there was a railroad car
And the car door opened and a man stepped out
Everybody looked and everybody saw It was the same man they’d been singin’ about
[PERSEPHONE, spoken]
You’re early!
[HADES, spoken]
I missed you
[FATES]
Mr. Hades is a mighty king
Must be making some mighty big deals
Seems like he owns everything
[EURYDICE]
Kind of makes you wonder how it feels
[HERMES]
All aboard…
A-one, A-two
A-one, two, three, four
[COMPANY]
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Way down Hadestown
Way down under the ground
Way down under the ground
Way down under the ground