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.
