Hamilton Lyrics

Washington On Your Side

[Intro: Aaron Burr] It must be nice, it must be nice To have Washington on your side (x2)

[Verse 1: Thomas Jefferson] Ev'ry action has its equal, opposite reactions. Thanks to Hamilton, our cabinet's fractured into factions. Try not to crack under the stress, we're breaking down like fractions. We smack each other in the press, and we don't print retractions I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration As Wall Street robs 'em blind in search of chips to cash in This prick is asking for someone to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket

[Hook: Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and James Madison (ALL)] It must be nice, it must be nice To have Washington on your side (x2) Look back at the Bill of Rights (which I wrote!) The ink hasn't dried It must be nice, it must be nice To have Washington on your side

[Verse 2: Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and James Madison (ALL)] So he's doubled the size of the government Wasn't the trouble with much of our previous government size Look in his eyes, see how he lies, follow the scent of his enterprise Centralizing national credit and making American credit competitive If we don't stop it, we aid and abet it. I have to resign! Somebody has to stand up for the South! Well, somebody has to stand up to his mouth! If there's a fire you're trying to douse, You can't put it out from inside the house! I'm in the cabinet, I am complicit in watching him grabbin' at power and kiss it. If Washington isn't gon' listen to disciplined dissidents, This is the difference, this kid is OUT!

[Bridge: Chorus] OH! This immigrant isn't somebody we chose! OH! This immigrant's keeping us all on our toes! OH! Let's show these Federalists what they're up against! OH! Southern motherfucking (uh-huh) Democratic-Republicans! OH! Let's follow the money and see where it goes! OH! Because every second, the treasury grows! OH! If we follow the money and see where it leads Get in the weeds, look for the seeds of Hamilton's misdeeds!

[Outro: Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and James Madison (ALL)] It must be nice, it must be nice... Follow the money and see where it goes! It must be nice, it must be nice...

The emperor has no clothes We won't be invisible We won't be denied! Still... It must be nice, it must be nice To have Washington on your side

32. One Last Time

HAMILTON: Mr. President, you asked to see me?

WASHINGTON: I know you're busy

HAMILTON: What do you need, sir? Sir?

WASHINGTON: I wanna give you a word of warning

HAMILTON: Sir, I don't know what you heard But whatever it is, Jefferson started it

WASHINGTON: Thomas Jefferson resigned this morning

HAMILTON: You're kidding

WASHINGTON: I need a favor

HAMILTON: Whatever you say, sir, Jefferson will pay for his behavior

WASHINGTON: Shh. Talk less

HAMILTON:

I'll use the press I'll write under a pseudonym, you'll see what I can do to him

WASHINGTON: I need you to draft an address

HAMILTON: Yes! He resigned. You can finally speak your mind

WASHINGTON: No, he's stepping down so he can run for President

HAMILTON: Ha. Good luck defeating you, sir

WASHINGTON: I'm stepping down. I'm not running for President

HAMILTON: I'm sorry, what?

WASHINGTON: One last time Relax, have a drink with me One last time Let's take a break tonight And then we'll teach them how to say goodbye To say goodbye You and I

HAMILTON: No, sir, why?

WASHINGTON: I wanna talk about neutrality

HAMILTON: Sir, with Britain and France on the verge of war, is this the best time

WASHINGTON: I want to warn against partisan fighting

HAMILTON: But—

WASHINGTON: Pick up a pen, start writing I wanna talk about what I have learned The hard-won wisdom I have earned

HAMILTON: As far as the people are concerned You have to serve, you could continue to serve

WASHINGTON: No! One last time The people will hear from me One last time And if we get this right We're gonna teach 'em how to say Goodbye You and I

HAMILTON: Mr. President, they will say you're weak

WASHINGTON: No, they will see we're strong

HAMILTON: Your position is so unique

WASHINGTON: So I'll use it to move them along

HAMILTON: Why do you have to say goodbye?

WASHINGTON: If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on It outlives me when I'm gone Like the scripture says: "Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree And no one shall make them afraid." They'll be safe in the nation we've made I wanna sit under my own vine and fig tree A moment alone in the shade At home in this nation we've made One last time

HAMILTON: One last time

HAMILTON: Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. I shall also carry with me

HAMILTON & WASHINGTON: The hope

HAMILTON: That my country will

HAMILTON & WASHINGTON: View them with indulgence;

HAMILTON: And that

HAMILTON & WASHINGTON: After forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal

HAMILTON: The faults of incompetent abilities will be

HAMILTON & WASHINGTON: Consigned oblivion, as I myself must soon be to the mansions of rest I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws Under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust Of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

WASHINGTON: One last time

ALL WOMEN: George Washington's going home!

HAMILTON:

Teach 'em how to say goodbye

COMPANY: George Washington's going home

WASHINGTON: You and I

COMPANY: George Washington's going home

WASHINGTON: Going home

COMPANY: George Washington's going home

WASHINGTON: History has its eyes on you

COMPANY: George Washington's going home

WASHINGTON: COMPANY: We're gonna teach 'em how to Say goodbye! Teach 'em how to say goodbye! Teach 'em how to Say goodbye! Teach 'em how! To say goodbye! . Say goodbye! Say goodbye! . Say goodbye! One last time! . One last time!