Misc Musicals – Hamilton - I Have This Friend (Ukulele)

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     Mr. President, do you have a minute?

Dm                   C        A
   Yeah, what is it, Mr. Secretary?

                Dm
I have this friend

       C     G
He's quite a guy

Dm                                   C       A
     He's in a bit of a bind and he needs advice

               Dm
Not me, this friend, it's a friend

              C    G
He's in the public eye

     Dm
Well, did something wrong

        C         A
And he paid the price, expensive price

        Dm                      C
Made a mistake in his personal life

                G
And now it's bleeding over into the professional

      Dm                   C
His enemies are said to strike

                   A
With news that's suited to a church confessional

           Dm
What they think they know

C                             G
Isn't what happened and they know I know

                           Dm          C      A
They won't stop until the world turns upside down

          Dm
So this friend?

           C      G
Did he break the law?

       Dm
No sir,   what he did was private

    C       A
And no one saw. No one saw? No one saw!

         Dm
Then your friend

            C   G
Should just move on

            Dm               C                 A
Don't respond, stay quiet until these men are gone-

                                     Dm
But he can't just not respond, these men

           C                       G
Whisper again and again until his reputation's in the mud

      Dm                  C
These men, these envious venomous men

          A
Won't let go the scent till they taste blood.

            Dm
But do they need to know?

        C           G
If he's really done nothing wrong

 Dm             C      A
The world turns upside down

      Dm
Calm down

                         C
Damned if I do or if I don't

                G
But I won't be accused of financial impropriety

G
I don't see how

 Dm                        C
They can take away what I say

                        A
If I say it first they can make it worse with their rank, false piety

Dm
People will make fun of this

     C
But I can get in front of this

G
I can take the pain and shame

                     Dm
But I will clear my name

       C                   A
I will show them all in the end

              Dm
You mean your, friend?

             C   G
Yeah, I mean my friend

      Dm                                C           A
He's come too far for them to drag him through the dirt

                       Dm
Well I don't know your friend

       C          G
But I know you're MY friend

Dm                   C             A                           Dm
    Alexander, be careful who you hurt, who you hurt, who you hurt