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Your Obedient Servant from Hamilton (by Lin-Manuel Miranda) [Burr]

          Dm
How does Hamilton

Dm
An arrogant

Dm
Immigrant, orphan

Dm/E
Bastard, whoreson

Dm/E 
Somehow endorse

       Dm/F
Thomas Jefferson, his enemy

                              Bb
A man he’s despised since the beginning

      A
Just to keep me from winning?

Dm
I wanna be in the room where it happens—

[Burr and Company]

    Dm/E
The room where it happens

Dm/E 
The room where it happens

[Burr]

Dm/F
You’ve kept me from—

[Burr and Company]

Dm/F
The room where it happens

[Burr]

Bb            A
For the last time

Dm Edim Dm/F

         Bb     A
Dear Alexander:

      Dm
I am slow to anger

      Edim
But I toe the line

     Dm/F
As I reckon with the effects

         Bb          A
Of your life on mine

        Dm          
I look back on where I failed

         Edim
And in every place I checked

      Dm/F                           Bb    A
The only common thread has been your disrespect

         Dm
Now you call me “amoral,”

   Edim
A “dangerous disgrace,”

          Dm/F
If you’ve got something to say

        Bb
Name a time and place

A
Face to face

F                   Bb      Bdim      C          
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant

           F
A dot Burr

[Hamilton] N.C. Mr. Vice President:

Ebm 
I am not the reason no one trusts you

Fdim
No one knows what you believe

           Ebm/F#
I will not equivocate on my opinion

        B                    Bb
I have always worn it on my sleeve

          Ebm     
Even if I said what you think I said

                  Fdim
You would need to cite a more specific grievance

          Ebm/F#                               B
Here’s an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements

[Burr] N.C. Sweet Jesus [Hamilton]

     Ebm
Hey, I have not been shy

                Fdim
I am just a guy in the public eye

                         Ebm/F#
Tryin’ to do my best for our republic

Ebm/F#
I don’t wanna fight

      B                     Bb
But I won’t apologize for doing what’s right

F#                  B        Cdim    C#
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant

          F#
A dot Ham

[Burr]

Em
Careful how you proceed, good man

Em/F#
Intemperate indeed, good man

Em/G                                      C
Answer for the accusations I lay at your feet or

            B
Prepare to bleed, good man

[Hamilton]

Em
Burr, your grievance is legitimate

        Em/F#
I stand by what I said, every bit of it

    Em/G
You stand only for yourself

              C
It’s what you do

             B
I can’t apologize because it’s true

[Burr] N.C. Then stand, Alexander N.C. Weehawken. Dawn. N.C. Guns. Drawn. [Hamilton] N.C. You’re on [Burr and Hamilton]

G                   C       Dbdim     D
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant

[Hamilton]

G
A dot Ham

[Burr]

G
A dot Burr