Why We Build the Wall
Patrick Page & Hadestown Original Broadway Company * Track #19 On Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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- #6Livin’ It Up On Top
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- #7All I’ve Ever Known (”In spite of herself...”) [Intro]
André De Shields
- #8All I’ve Ever Known
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- #9Way Down Hadestown
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- #10A Gathering Storm
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- #11Epic II
Reeve Carney
- #12Chant
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- #13Hey, Little Songbird
Patrick Page & Eva Noblezada
- #14When the Chips are Down (”Songbird vs. rattlesnake”) [Intro]
André De Shields
- #15When the Chips are Down
Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Kay Trinidad & Eva Noblezada
- #16Gone, I’m Gone
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- #17Wait for Me (”Hey, the big artiste...”) [Intro]
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- #18Wait for Me
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- #19Why We Build the Wall
Patrick Page & Hadestown Original Broadway Company
- #20Why We Build the Wall (”Behind closed doors...”) [Outro]
André De Shields
- #21Our Lady of the Underground
Amber Gray
- #22Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)
André De Shields, Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Kay Trinidad, Eva Noblezada, Timothy Hughes, Malcolm Armwood, Jessie Shelton, Kimberly Marable, Khaila Wilcoxon, Ahmad Simmons, Afra Hines, T. Oliver Reid & John Krause
- #23Flowers
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- #24Come Home with Me (Reprise)
Reeve Carney & Eva Noblezada
- #25Papers (”You’re not from around here, son...”) [Intro]
Patrick Page, Amber Gray, André De Shields, Eva Noblezada & Reeve Carney
- #26Papers (Instrumental)
Hadestown Original Broadway Band
- #27Nothing Changes
Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer & Kay Trinidad
- #28If it’s True
Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Afra Hines, Timothy Hughes, John Krause, Kimberly Marable & Ahmad Simmons
- #29How Long?
Amber Gray & Patrick Page
- #30Chant (Reprise)
Hadestown Original Broadway Company
- #31Epic III
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- #32Epic III (”They danced...”) [Instrumental]
Hadestown Original Broadway Band
- #33Promises
Eva Noblezada & Reeve Carney
- #34Word to the Wise
Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer & Kay Trinidad
- #35His Kiss, the Riot
Patrick Page
- #36Wait for Me (”If you wanna walk out of hell...”) [Intro]
André De Shields, Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, Afra Hines, Timothy Hughes, Kimberly Marable, John Krause & Ahmad Simmons
- #37Wait For Me (Reprise)
André De Shields & Hadestown Original Broadway Company
- #38Doubt Comes In
Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Kay Trinidad, Afra Hines, John Krause, Kimberly Marable, Timothy Hughes & Ahmad Simmons
- #39Road To Hell (Reprise)
André De Shields & Hadestown Original Broadway Company
- #40We Raise our Cups
Amber Gray, Eva Noblezada & Hadestown Original Broadway Company
Why We Build the Wall by Patrick Page & Hadestown Original Broadway Company
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Produced by
Todd Sickafoose & David Lai & Anaïs MitchellWrited by
Anaïs MitchellAbout
A pointed critique of modern society and politics disguised as a plot point, this song is an anthemic show of life in the underworld. Here, we see Hades leading a chant regarding the values and reasoning of “life” in the underworld: working for the sake of work, rejecting and judging poverty, isolat...
Why We Build the Wall Lyrics
[HADES]
Why do we build the wall
My children, my children?
Why do we build the wall?
[COMPANY]
Why do we build the wall?
We build the wall to keep us free
That's why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free
[HADES]
How does the wall keep us free
My children, my children?
How does the wall keep us free?
[COMPANY]
How does the wall keep us free?
The wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That's why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free
[HADES]
Who do we call the enemy
My children, my children?
Who do we call the enemy?
[COMPANY]
Who do we call the enemy?
The enemy is poverty
And the wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That's why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free
[HADES]
Because we have and they have not
My children, my children
Because they want what we have got
[COMPANY]
Because we have and they have not
Because they want what we have got
The enemy is poverty
And the wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That's why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free
[HADES]
What do we have that they should want
My children, my children?
What do we have that they should want?
[COMPANY and EURYDICE]
What do we have that they should want?
We have a wall to work upon
We have work and they have none
[HADES]
And our work is never done
My children, my children!
And the war is never won!
[HADES and COMPANY]
The enemy is poverty
And the wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That's why we build the wall
We build the wall to keep us free
We build the wall to keep us free
Why We Build the Wall Q&A
Who wrote Why We Build the Wall's ?
Why We Build the Wall was written by Anaïs Mitchell.
Who produced Why We Build the Wall's ?
Why We Build the Wall was produced by Todd Sickafoose & David Lai & Anaïs Mitchell.
When did Patrick Page & Hadestown Original Broadway Company release Why We Build the Wall?
Patrick Page & Hadestown Original Broadway Company released Why We Build the Wall on Fri Jun 07 2019.