Misc Musicals – Hamilton - Say No To This (Guitar)

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Say No To This from Hamilton (by Lin-Manuel Miranda) F#m [BURR]
D7                                       F#m D7
There’s nothing like summer in the city

                                                   F#m D7
Someone under stress meets someone looking pretty

                                             Faug
There’s trouble in the air, you can smell it
And Alexander’s by himself. I’ll let him tell it [HAMILTON]
           A
I hadn’t slept in a week
I was weak, I was awake
          Aaug
You never seen a bastard orphan
More in need of a break
F#m/A
Longing for Angelica
Missing my wife
             A7
That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into my life, she said:
[MARIA]
A
I know you are a man of honor

Aaug
I’m so sorry to bother you at home

      F#m/A                        A7
But I don’t know where to go, and I came here all alone…
[HAMILTON] She said: [MARIA]
A
My husband’s doin’ me wrong

   Aaug 
Beatin’ me, cheatin’ me, mistreatin’ me...

F#m/A
Suddenly he’s up and gone

A7
I don’t have the means to go on
[HAMILTON]
      F#m                                                D7
So I offered her a loan, I offered to walk her home, she said
[MARIA] You’re too kind, sir [HAMILTON]
            F#m
I gave her thirty bucks that I had socked away

                    D7
She lived a block away, she said:
[MARIA] This one’s mine, sir [HAMILTON]
        F#m
Then I said, “well, I should head back home,”

                     D7
She turned red, she led me to her bed
Let her legs spread and said: [MARIA]
Faug
Stay?
[HAMILTON] Hey… [MARIA] Hey… [HAMILTON] That’s when I began to pray:
    A
Lord, show me how to
Say no to this
Aaug
I don’t know how to
Say no to this
   F#m/A
But my God, she looks so helpless

    A7
And her body’s saying, “hell, yes”
[MARIA]
A
Whoa...
[HAMILTON] Nooo, show me how to [HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE] Say no to this [HAMILTON]
Aaug
I don’t know how to
[HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE] Say no to this [HAMILTON]
F#m/A
In my mind, I’m tryin’ to go
(ENSEMBLE) Go! Go! Go! [HAMILTON]
      A7                          D
Then her mouth is on mine, and I don’t say…
[ENSEMBLE]
A
No! No!
Say no to this!
Aaug
No! No!
Say no to this!
F#m/A
No! No!
Say no to this!
A7
No! No!
Say no to this! [HAMILTON]
A
I wish I could say that was the last time

Aaug
I said that last time. It became a pastime

F#m/A
A month into this endeavor I received a letter

A7
From a Mr. James Reynolds, even better, it said:
[JAMES]
A5*
Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health
And in a prosperous enough position to put wealth In the pockets of people like me: down on their luck You see, that was my wife who you decided to [HAMILTON] Fuuuu— [JAMES] Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold So time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife If the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife [HAMILTON]
  F#m
I hid the letter and I raced to her place

                                   D7
Screamed “How could you?!” in her face
She said: [MARIA] No, sir! [HAMILTON]
      F#m
Half dressed, apologetic. A mess, she looked

              D7
Pathetic, she cried:
[MARIA] Please don’t go, sir! [HAMILTON]
       F#m
So was your whole story a setup?
[MARIA] I don’t know about any letter! [HAMILTON]
      E/F#
Stop crying Goddamnit, get up!
[MARIA]
   E
I didn’t know any better
[HAMILTON]
       D
I am ruined...
[MARIA] / [HAMILTON] Please don’t leave me with him / I am
  E  D
helpless                           / helpless, how could I do
Just give him what he wants / this?
              E   D
and you can have me
/ I don't want you Whatever you want, / I don't want you [MARIA]
        Bbm
If you pay                         / I don't...

         Bb   B
You can stay
[HAMILTON]
B
Lord, show me how to               / [ENSEMBLE]
Say no to this / Say no to this!
Baug
I don't know how to
Say no to this
Abm/B
But the situation's helpless       / Helpless

B7
And her body's screaming
Hell yes / Whoa!
B                                   
No, show me how to
Say no to this / Say no to this!
Baug
How can I
Say no to this? / Say no to this!
Abm/B 
There is nowhere I
can go / Go go go
B7
When her body's on

           E
mine I do not say...
[ENSEMBLE] / [HAMILTON/MARIA]
B
No!
/ Yes! Say no to this!
Baug
No!
/ Yes! Say no to this!
Abm/B
No!
/ Yes! Say no to this!
B7
No!
/ Yes! Say no to this! B [HAMILTON] Say no to this / [MARIA]
Baug
I don't say no to this       / Don't say no to this

Abm/B
There is nowhere I can go
[ENSEMBLE] Go go go B7 [JAMES] So? [HAMILTON] Nobody needs to know B Baug Abm/B B7 *you could play this section as A5 or just do the notes (G A A G A) OR don't play anything.