Chords for songs

Wait For Me

Wait For Me

Wait For Me chords

by Anaïs Mitchell, Ben Knox Miller, Justin Vernon

Year: 2010

Genre: Folk

Guitar
Tuning E A D G B E
Capo No capo
Transpose
EADGBE

Em
C
G
D
Emadd9

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Chord Highlight

Intro 1

Em

C

G

D

Verse 1

Em

How to

get to Hadestown

You'll

C

have to take the

long way down

G

Through the

underground, under cover

of night

D

Laying low,

staying out of

sight

Em

Ain't no

compass, brother,

there ain't no map

C

Just a telephone

wire and the

railroad track

G

Keep on

walking and you

don't look back

'Til you

D

get to the

bottomland

Chorus 1

Emadd9

Wait

C

for me,

I'm

G

coming

D

Emadd9

Wait,

I'm

C

coming

G

with

D

you

Emadd9

Wait

C

for me,

I'm

G

coming

too

D

I'm

Verse 2

coming

Em

(too) River

Styx is high

and wide

C

Cinderbricks and

razorwire

And

G

walls of iron

and concrete

D

Hound dogs

howling round the

gate

Them

Em

dogs'll lay down

and play dead

If you

C

got the bones,

if you got

the bread

G

But if all

you got is

your own two legs

D

Just be

glad you got 'em

Chorus 2

Emadd9

Wait

C

for me,

I'm

G

coming

D

Emadd9

Wait,

I'm

C

coming

G

with

D

you

Emadd9

Wait

C

for me,

I'm

G

coming

too

D

I'm

Verse 3

coming

Em

(too) You're on

the lam, you're

on the run

C

Don't give

your name, you

don't have one

G

Don't

look no one in

the eye

D

That

town will try to

suck you dry

Em

They'll

suck your brain,

they'll suck

your breath

C

They'll

pluck the heart

right out your chest

G

They'll truss you

up in your

Sunday best

D

And stuff your

mouth with cotton

Chorus 3

Emadd9

Wait

C

for me,

I'm

G

coming

D

Emadd9

Wait,

I'm

C

coming

G

with

D

you

Emadd9

Wait

C

for me,

I'm

G

coming

too

D

I'm

Outro 1

coming

Em

Wait,

D

Em

wait,

D

Em

wait,

D

Em

wait

D

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