[HERMES, spoken
 How to get to Hadestown:
 You have to take the long way down
 Through the underground, under cover of night
 Layin' low, stayin' out of sight
 Ain't no compass, brother, ain't no map
 Just a telephone wire and a railroad track
 Keep on walkin' and don't look back
 'Til you get to the bottomland

 [ORPHEUS
 Wait for me, I'm comin'
 Wait, I'm comin' with you
 Wait for me, I'm comin' too
 I'm coming too

 [HERMES, spoken
 The River Styx is high and wide
 Cinder bricks and razor wire
 Walls of iron and concrete
 Hound dogs howling 'round the gate
 Those dogs'll lay down and play dead
 If you got the bones, if you got the bread
 But if all you got is your own two legs
 Just be glad you got 'em

 [ORPHEUS and FATES
 Wait for me, I'm comin'
 Wait, I'm comin' with you
 Wait for me, I'm comin' too
 I'm coming too

 [FATES
 Who are you?

 [FATE
 Where do you think you're going?

 [FATES
 Who are you?

 [FATE
 Why are you all alone?

 [FATES
 Who do you-

 [FATE
 -Think you are?

 [FATES
 Who are you-

 [FATE
 -To think that you can walk a road that no one ever walked before?

 [ORPHEUS
 La la la la la la
 La la la la la la la

 (the COMPANY begins to echo and do rounds)

 [ORPHEUS
 La la la la la la la
 La la la la la

 (HERMES cuts them off)

 [HERMES
 You're on the lam, you’re on the run
 Don't give your name, you don't have one
 And don't look no one in the eye
 That town'll try to suck you dry
 They'll suck your brain, they'll suck your breath
 They'll pluck the heart right out your chest
 They'll truss you up in your Sunday best
 And stuff your mouth with cotton

 [ORPHEUS and COMPANY
 Wait for me I'm coming! I'm coming I'm coming
 Wait, I'm coming with you I'm coming
 Wait Wait I'm coming for me, I'm coming too
 I'm coming!

 [COMPANY
 Wait!

 [ORPHEUS
 I'm coming wait for me

 [COMPANY
 Wait!

 [ORPHEUS and HERMES
 I hear the walls repeating

 [COMPANY
 Wait!

 [ORPHEUS and HERMES
 The falling of my feet and

 [ORPHEUS and COMPANY
 It sounds like drumming

 [COMPANY
 Wait!

 [ORPHEUS and HERMES and Unknown Voice
 And I am not alone

 [COMPANY
 Wait!

 [ORPHEUS and HERMES, and Unknown Voice
 I hear the rocks and stones

 [COMPANY
 Wait!

 [ORPHEUS
 Echoing my song
 I'm coming!

 [HERMES
 Coming...

 [COMPANY
 Coming...