Misc Musicals – Hamilton - Congratulations (Guitar)

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"Congratulations" from Off-Broadway run of Hamilton (cut from the final show, but it's online and fun to play) *what I've been calling Bb/Ab is really just Ab C D played together Cm7 Eb/Bb (HAMILTON)
Eb/Bb     Cm7/G
Angelica
(ANGELICA)
Cm7/G          Bb/Ab
Alexander...

Bb/Ab
Congratulations.

Cm
You have invented a new kind of stupid

   Eb
A damage you can never undo kind of stupid

    Ebmaj7/G
An "open all the cages in the zoo" kind of stupid

Bb/Ab
Truly, you didn't think this through? kind of stupid

Cm7
  Let's review

                   Eb
You took a rumor a few, maybe two people knew 

                   Gm
and refuted it by sharing an affair of which no one has accused you

Bb/Ab
  I begged you to take a break, you refused to

Cm7
    So scared of what your enemies will do to you

Eb
You're the only enemy you ever seem to lose to

Ebmaj7/G
   You know why Jefferson can do what he wants

            Bb/Ab
He doesn't dignify schoolyard taunts with a response

        Cm7
So yeah, congratulations!
(HAMILTON)
Eb
Angelica...
(ANGELICA)
                           Ebmaj7/G
You've redefined your legacy, congratulations
(HAMILTON)
                            Bb/Ab
It was an act of political sacrifice!
(ANGELICA)
Bb/Ab      Ab
Sacrifice?

  Cm7
I languished in a loveless marriage in London

  Eb/Bb
I lived only to read your letters

  Abmaj7
I look at you and think God what have we done with our 

Eb/G
lives and what did it get us

      Fm9     
That doesn't wipe the tears or the years away

        Eb/G
but I'm back in the city and I'm here to stay

        Abmaj7
and you know what I'm here to do
(HAMILTON)
Abmaj7
Angelica...
(ANGELICA)
G
   I'm not here for you

Cm7                    Eb
I know my sister like I know my own mind

        Eb/G                   Ab11
You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind

      Cm7                                Ebsus2
And a million years ago she said to me "this one's mine"

   Ab
So I stood by 

G
Do you know why?

Cm7                        Eb/Bb       
I love my sister more than anything in this life

        Eb/G                     Abmaj7     G7
I will choose her happiness over mine every time

Cm7
Eliza--
(HAMILTON)
Cm7
Eliza...
(ANGELICA)
         Eb/Bb
--is the best thing in our lives

   Abmaj7                                          Bb/Ab
So never lose sight of the fact that you have been blessed

Bb/Ab              G7
with the best wife

Cm7
Congratulations

Eb/Bb
     For the rest of your life

      Amaj7                         Bb/Ab
Every sacrifice you make is for my sister

             G7
Give her the best life

Cm
Congratulations