Alright, I JUST submitted a set of chords for this that I did by ear that worked but
weren't how Anais Mitchell plays it. Then i looked up a video and it turned out to
be totally doable to figure out how she actually does it! Now you, too, can do it.
Play it capo fifth fret to match the key on the album, although in the version I
learned it from she played it at the fourth fret. The intro gets fingerpicked to this
pattern:
Dsus2 Dm Am7 A7
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
e-----------0-----1-------0---------------------------------------|
B-3-----3---------------3-----3---1---------1-----2---------2-----|
G-----2---------------2-----------------0---------------0---------|
D-------------------------------------2---------------2-----------|
A---------------------------------0-------0-------0-------0-------|
D---0-----0-------0-------0-----------------------------------------|
and the rest of the song gets played consistently in the pattern used for both A chords
up there. just move to the appropriate four strings. (sometimes she swtiches whether
the third or fourth string gets picked on the downbeat, just listen for it if it's
crucial.) There's two chords I don't know enough theory to name properly, but i'm
certain of the notes in them.
Dsus2 : 0xx230
Dm : 0xx231
Am7 : x0201x
A7 : x0202x
C : x3201x
G7/F (?) : 3230xx
A7/E (?) : 2020xx
Intro:
Dsus2, Dm, Am7, A7 (as above)
Dsus2, Dsus2, G7/F, A7/E
C G7/F
Hades, my husband, Hades, my light
G7/F Dsus2
Hades, my darkness
Dsus2 G7/F
If you had heard how he sang tonight
G7/F Dsus2
You’d pity poor Orpheus!
Dsus2 Am7 A7
All of his sorrow won’t fit in his chest
Dsus2 G7/F A7/E
It just burns like a fire in the pit of his chest
Dsus2 G7/F A7/E
And his heart is a bird on a spit in his chest
G7/F A7/E Dsus2
How long, how long, how long?
C G7/F
How long? Just as long as Hades is King
G7/F Dsus2
Nothing comes of wishing on stars
Dsus2 G7/F
And nothing comes of the songs people sing
G7/F Dsus2
However sorry they are
Dsus2 Am7 A7
Give them a piece and they’ll take it all
Dsus2 G7/F A7/E
Show them the crack and they’ll tear down the wall
Dsus2 G7/F A7/E
Lend them an ear and the Kingdom will fall
G7/F A7/E Dsus2
The Kingdom will fall for a song
C G7/F
What does he care for the logic of kings?
G7/F Dsus2
The laws of your underworld?
Dsus2 G7/F
It is only for love that he sings!
G7/F Dsus2
He sings for the love of a girl
Dsus2 Am7 A7
You and your pity don’t fit in my bed
Dsus2 G7/F A7/E
You just burn like a fire in the pit of my bed
Dsus2 G7/F A7/E
And I turn like a bird on a spit in my bed
G7/F A7/E Dsus2
How long, how long, how long?
C G7/F
How long? Just as long as I am your wife
G7/F Dsus2
It’s true the earth must die
Dsus2 G7/F
But then the earth comes back to life
G7/F Dsus2
And the sun just goes on rising
Dsus2 Am7 A7
And how does the sun even fit in the sky?
Dsus2 G7/F A7/E
It just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky
Dsus2 G7/F A7/E
And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky
G7/F A7/E Dsus2
How long, how long, how long?
