Misc Musicals – Hamilton - Washington On Your Side (Guitar)

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Washington On Your Side from Hamilton [written by Lin-Manuel Miranda] _______________________________________________________________________ Some of the weirder chords used:
e     F/C: 1        Fsus4:  1        
A          1                1
D 2 3 G 2 3 B 3 3 E x 1
e  Bbm/Db: x       Ebsus4:  4
A          2                4
D 3 3 G 3 1 B 4 x E x x ________________________________________________________________________ F Fsus4 Ebsus4 Eb [Burr]
F          Fsus4            Ebsus4   
It must be nice, it must be nice to have

Eb                      F
Washington on your side

             Fsus4          Ebsus4
It must be nice, it must be nice to have

Eb
Washington on your side
[Jefferson]
F
Ev’ry action has its equal, opposite reactions

Eb
Thanks to Hamilton, our cab’net’s fractured into factions

F
Try not to crack under the stress, we’re breaking down like fractions

Eb
We smack each other in the press, and we don’t print retractions

F/C                   Bbm/Db
I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion

Dm7                                Eb7
The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion

F
Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration

Eb
As Wall Street robs ‘em blind in search of chips to cash in

F
This prick is askin’ for someone to bring him to task

Ebsus4                                   Eb
Somebody gimme some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him

F
I’ll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock it

Ebsus4                         Eb
While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket
[Jefferson and Burr]
F          Fsus4            Ebsus4   
It must be nice, it must be nice to have

Eb                      F
Washington on your side

             Fsus4          Ebsus4
It must be nice, it must be nice to have

Eb
Washington on your side

F/C              Bbm/Db
Look back at the Bill of Rights
[Madison] Which I wrote [Jefferson/Madison/Burr]
Dm7             Eb7
The ink hasn’t dried

F                                Eb
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side [Madison]
F
So he’s doubled the size of the government

                                           Eb
Wasn’t the trouble with much our previous government size?
[Burr] Look in his eyes! [Jefferson] See how he lies [Madison]
                         F
Follow the scent of his enterprise
[Jefferson] Centralizing national credit
                      Ebsus4
And making American credit competitive
[Madison]
                        Eb
If we don’t stop it we aid and abet it
[Jefferson] I have to resign [Madison]
F/C
Somebody has to stand up for the South!
[Burr]
Bbm/Db
Somebody has to stand up to his mouth!
[Jefferson]
Dm7
If there’s a fire you’re trying to douse
[Madison AND Jefferson]
    Eb7
You can’t put it out from inside the house
[Jefferson]
F
I’m in the cabinet. I am complicit in
Watching him grabbin’ at power and kissin' it
Eb
If Washington isn’t gon’ listen
To disciplined dissidents, this is the difference: This kid is out! [Madison/Burr/Jefferson]
F
Oh!
This immigrant isn’t somebody we chose
F/Eb
Oh!
This immigrant’s keeping us all on our toes
F
Oh!
Let’s show these Federalists who they’re up against!
F/Eb
Oh!
[Jefferson/Madison] Southern motherfuckin’— [Jefferson/Madison/Burr]
             F/C
Democratic-Republicans!
[Jefferson/Madison/Burr/Ensemble] Oh! [Jefferson/Madison/Burr]
      Bbm/Db
Let’s follow the money and see where it goes
[Ensemble]
Dm7
    Oh!
[Jefferson/Madison/Burr]
         Eb7
Because every second the Treasury grows
[Ensemble]
F/C
   Oh!
[Jefferson/Madison/Burr]
      Bbm/Db                             Eb
If we follow the money and see where it leads
Get in the weeds, look for the seeds of Hamilton’s misdeeds [Jefferson/Madison/Burr]
F                            Eb
It must be nice. It must be nice
[Madison] Follow the money and see where it goes [Jefferson/Madison/Burr]
F                            Eb
It must be nice. It must be nice
[Jefferson] The emperor has no clothes [Jefferson/Madison/Burr]
F/C            Bbm/Db  Dm7           Eb7
We won’t be invisible. We won’t be denied
Still
F                            Eb
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side