Washington On Your Side
[BURR]It must be nice, it must be niceTo have Washington on your sideIt must be nice, it must be niceTo have Washington on your side
[JEFFERSON]Ev’ry action has its equal, opposite reactionThanks to Hamilton, our cab’net’s fractured into factionsTry not to crack under the stress, we’re breaking down like fractionsWe smack each other in the press, and we don’t print retractionsI get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passionThe way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashionOur poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to rationAs Wall Street robs ‘em blind in search of chips to cash inThis prick is askin’ for someone to bring him to taskSomebody gimme some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask himI’ll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock itWhile we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket
[JEFFERSON AND BURR]It must be nice, it must be niceTo have Washington on your sideIt must be nice, it must be niceTo have Washington on your side
Look back at the Bill of Rights
[MADISON]Which I wrote
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR]The ink hasn’t driedIt must be nice, it must be nice to haveWashington on your side
[MADISON]So he’s doubled the size of the governmentWasn’t the trouble with much our previous government size?
[BURR]Look in his eyes!
[JEFFERSON]See how he lies
[MADISON]Follow the scent of his enterprise
[JEFFERSON]Centralizing national creditAnd making American credit competitive
[MADISON]If we don’t stop it we aid and abet it
[JEFFERSON]I have to resign
[MADISON]Somebody has to stand up for the South!
[BURR]Somebody has to stand up to his mouth!
[JEFFERSON]If there’s a fire you’re trying to douse
[MADISON AND JEFFERSON]You can’t put it out from inside the house
[JEFFERSON]I’m in the cabinet. I am complicit inWatching him grabbin’ at power and kiss itIf Washington isn’t gon’ listenTo disciplined dissidents, this is the difference:This kid is out!
[MADISON/BURR/JEFFERSON]Oh!This immigrant isn’t somebody we choseOh!This immigrant’s keeping us all on our toesOh!Let’s show these Federalists who they’re up against!Oh!
[JEFFERSON/MADISON]Southern motherfuckin’—
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR]Democratic-Republicans!
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR/ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR]Let’s follow the money and see where it goes
[ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR]Because every second the Treasury grows
[ENSEMBLE]Oh!
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR]If we follow the money and see where it leadsGet in the weeds, look for the seeds ofHamilton’s misdeeds
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR]It must be nice. It must be nice
[MADISON]Follow the money and see where it goes
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURRIt must be nice. It must be nice
[JEFFERSON]The emperor has no clothes
[JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR]We won’t be invisible. We won’t be deniedStillIt must be nice, it must be niceTo have Washington on your side