Washington On Your Side from Hamilton [written by Lin-Manuel Miranda]
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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
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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
