Washington On Your Side

BURR
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side.
JEFFERSON
Ev’ry action has its equal, opposite reactions.
Thanks to Hamilton, our cab’net’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 askin’ for someone to bring him
to task.
Somebody gimme 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.
JEFFERSON AND BURR
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side.
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side.
Look back at the Bill of Rights.
MADISON
Which I wrote.
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR
The ink hasn’t dried.
It must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side.
MADISON
So he’s doubled the size of the government.
Wasn’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 credit
and 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 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!
MADISON/BURR/JEFFERSON
Oh!
This immigrant isn’t somebody we chose.
Oh!
This immigrant’s keeping us all on our toes.
Oh!
Let’s show these Federalists who they’re up
against!
Oh!
JEFFERSON/MADISON
Southern motherfuckin’-
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR
Democratic-Republicans!
JEFF/MAD/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 leads,
get in the weeds, look for the seeds of
Hamilton’s misdeeds.
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR
It must be nice. It must be nice.
MADISON
Follow the money and see where it goes.
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR
It 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 denied.
Still,
it must be nice, it must be nice to have
Washington on your side.