Misc Mashups – Hamilton - The Schuyler Sisters - Burn (Guitar)

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[Verse]
 Em                      B
I saved every letter you wrote me

C                   G
  From the moment I read them

  Am            Em
I knew you were mine

                   B
You said you were mine

                   C     G  F#m
I thought you were mine

Em                    B
   Do you know what Angelica said

         C                     G       Am
When we saw your first letter arrive?
She said
Em               B
“Be careful with that one, love

      C                      G
He will do what it takes to survive.”

        C
Work, work! Angelica!

G
Work, work! Eliza!

Em
And Peggy! The Schuyler sisters!

G
Angelica!
N.C. Peggy! N.C. Eliza!
Em
Work!
[Verse]
Em
Daddy said to be home by sundown

G
Daddy doesn’t need to know

Em
Daddy said not to go downtown

G
Like I said, you’re free to go

Em
But—look around, look around, the

G                          C
Revolution’s happening in New York New York Angelica, Peggy, Eliza

B
Work!

Em
It’s bad enough daddy wants to go to war

G
People shouting in the square

Em
It’s bad enough there’ll be violence on our shore

G
New ideas in the air
[Pre-Chorus]
F#m          Em                        B
You and your words, obsessed with your legacy...

       C                    G
Your sentences border on senseless

Am           Em                B
And you are paranoid in every paragraph

            C
How they perceive you
You, you, you…
     Em                      B
I’m erasing myself from the narrative

     C                  G         Am
Let future historians wonder how Eliza

Em                        B
Reacted when you broke her heart

C
You have torn it all apart

 C
I am watching it
[OVERLAPPING] [Outro]
Em
Work, work! Angelica!

G
Eliza!

Em
And Peggy! The Schuyler sisters!

G
We’re looking for a mind at

Em
work!

G
Whoa!

C
In the greatest

           D     G
City in the world

                D             G
The world has no right to my heart

                  Bm
The world has no place in our bed

      Em                      C
They don’t get to know what I said

     D             G
I’m burning the memories

             Bm                    Em
Burning the letters that might have redeemed you

      C       D           G
You forfeit all rights to my heart

                 Bm
You forfeit the place in our bed

        Em                   C
You'll sleep in your office instead

      D         G
With only the memories

             Bm      G            C
Of when you were mine
[EVERYTHING STOPS} [Outro]
                Em  B  C  G Am  Em
I hope that you   burn
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