Key: A
Introduction:
F F4 Eb4 Eb
(BURR)
F F4 Eb4
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Eb F
Washington on your side
F4 Eb4
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
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
Eb4 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
Eb4 Eb
While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket
(JEFFERSON AND BURR)
F F4 Eb4
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Eb F
Washington on your side
F4 Eb4
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Eb
Washington on your side
F/C Bbm
Look back at the Bill of Rights
(MADISON)
Dm7 Eb7
The ink hasn?t dried
F Eb
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side
F
So he?s doubled the size of the government
Eb
Wasn?t the trouble with much our previous government size?
(BURR)
F
Follow the scent of his enterprise
(JEFFERSON)
Eb4
And making American credit competitive
(MADISON)
Eb
If we don?t stop it we aid and abet it
(JEFFERSON)
F/C
Somebody has to stand up for the South!
(BURR)
Bbm
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
This kid is out!
F
Oh!
This immigrant isn?t somebody we chose
F
Oh!
This immigrant?s keeping us all on our toes
F
Oh!
Let?s show these Federalists who they?re up against!
F
Oh!
(JEFFERSON/MADISON)
F/C
Democratic-Republicans!
(JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR/ENSEMBLE)
Bbm
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 Eb
If we follow the money and see where it leads
Get in the weeds, look for the seeds of
F Eb
It must be nice. It must be nice
(MADISON)
F Eb
It must be nice. It must be nice
(JEFFERSON)
F/C Bbm 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