Washington on Your Side
[00:00.00] WASHINGTON ON YOUR SIDE
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[00:07.00] [BURR – 3]
[00:08.18] It must be nice, it must be nice to have
[00:13.35] Washington on your side
[00:15.64] It must be nice, it must be nice to have
[00:20.34] Washington on your side
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[00:22.73] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[00:23.05] Ev’ry action has its equal opposite reaction
[00:25.96] Thanks to Hamilton, our cabinet’s fractured into factions
[00:29.50] Try not to crack under the stress, we’re breaking down like fractions
[00:33.32] We smack each other in the press, and we don’t print retractions
[00:36.65] I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion
[00:40.17] The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion
[00:43.81] Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration
[00:47.66] As Wall Street robs ‘em blind in search of chips to cash in
[00:51.10] This prick is askin’ for someone to bring him to task
[00:54.33] Somebody gimme some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him
[00:58.28] I’ll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock it
[01:01.70] While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket
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[01:05.45] [JEFFERSON AND BURR – 3/4]
[01:05.86] It must be nice, it must be nice to have
[01:10.25] Washington on your side
[01:12.83] It must be nice, it must be nice to have
[01:17.62] Washington on your side
[01:20.02] Look back at the Bill of Rights
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[01:22.21] [MADISON – 6]
[01:22.52] Which I wrote
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[01:23.57] [JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR – 3/4/6]
[01:24.09] The ink hasn’t dried
[01:27.00] It must be nice, it must be nice to have
[01:32.10] Washington on your side
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[01:34.08] [MADISON – 6]
[01:34.39] So he’s doubled the size of the government
[01:35.75] Wasn’t the trouble with much of our previous government size?
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[01:38.13] [BURR – 3]
[01:38.34] Look in his eyes!
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[01:39.17] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[01:39.38] See how he lies
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[01:40.22] [MADISON – 6]
[01:40.43] Follow the scent of his enterprise
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[01:41.99] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[01:42.20] Centralizing national credit
[01:43.76] And making American credit competitive
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[01:45.43] [MADISON – 6]
[01:45.63] If we don’t stop it we aid and abet it
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[01:47.30] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[01:47.51] I have to resign
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[01:48.34] [MADISON – 6]
[01:48.55] Somebody has to stand up for the South!
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[01:49.90] [BURR – 3]
[01:50.11] Well, somebody has to stand up to his mouth!
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[01:51.55] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[01:51.76] If there’s a fire you’re trying to douse
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[01:53.63] [MADISON AND JEFFERSON – 4/6]
[01:53.94] You can’t put it out from inside the house
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[01:55.19] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[01:55.39] I’m in the cabinet. I am complicit in
[01:57.27] Watching him grabbin’ at power and kiss it
[01:58.73] If Washington isn’t gon’ listen
[02:00.30] To disciplined dissidents, this is the difference:
[02:01.87] This kid is out!
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[02:03.12] [MADISON/BURR/JEFFERSON – 3/4/6]
[02:03.33] Oh! This immigrant isn’t somebody we chose
[02:06.99] Oh! This immigrant’s keeping us all on our toes
[02:10.54] Oh! Let’s show these Federalists who they’re up against!
[02:14.08] Oh!
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[02:15.02] [JEFFERSON/MADISON – 4/6]
[02:15.32] Southern motherfuckin’—
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[02:16.58] [JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR – 3/4/6]
[02:16.89] Democratic-Republicans! [ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[02:17.88] Oh! Oh!
[02:18.93] Now follow the money and see where it goes
[02:21.38] Oh!
[02:22.32] Because every second the Treasury grows
[02:24.99] Oh!
[02:25.83] If we follow the money and see where it leads
[02:28.12] Get in the weeds, look for the seeds of
[02:29.79] Hamilton’s misdeeds
[02:31.56] It must be nice. It must be nice
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[02:35.20] [MADISON – 6]
[02:36.67] Follow the money and see where it goes
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[02:38.53] [JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR – 3/4/6]
[02:38.84] It must be nice. It must be nice
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[02:43.01] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[02:43.54] The emperor has no clothes
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[02:46.24] [JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR – 3/4/6]
[02:46.76] We won’t be invisible. We won’t be denied
[02:52.07] Still
[02:53.11] It must be nice, it must be nice
[02:57.69] To have Washington on your side
