Washington On Your Side
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Cast List:
Burr | Jefferson | Madison | Ensemble
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 of 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!
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 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