Washington On Your Side

[Intro:] 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