Chords for 2-5. The Room Where It Happens (Hamilton) - Color Coded Lyrics

_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ Ah, Mr.
Secretary.
Mr.
Burr, sir.
Hey, did you hear the news about good old General Mercer?
No.
You know Claremont Street?
Yeah.
[Am] They renamed it after him.
The Mercer Legacy is secure.
Sure.
_ And all he had to do was die.
Yeah, that's a lot less work.
We ought to give it a try.
Ha, now how you gonna get your debt plan through?
I guess I'm gonna finally have to listen to you.
Really?
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ Thoughtless, [G] smile boy.
[Am] _
Do whatever [F] it takes to get [Eb] my plan [Cm] on the _ Congress floor.
[Am] _
Now [F] Madison and Jefferson are [Eb]
merciless.
Well, hate the sin, [Cm] love the [Am] sinner.
Hamilton.
_ [F] I'm sorry, Burr, I gotta go.
[Em] _
[C] But_
Decisions are happening over dinner.
[Em] _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
Two [F] Virginians and an immigrant walk [Cm] into a room.
_ Diametrically [D] opposed [Am] foes.
They emerge [F] with a compromise, having [Eb] opened doors that were previously [G] closed.
[Am] The immigrant emerges [F] with unprecedented [Eb] financial power, a system he can [G] shape however he [Am] wants.
The [F] Virginians emerge with the [Em] nation's [C] capital.
And here's the pièce de résistance.
[A] _
No one else was in the room where it [D] happened.
The room where it happened.
[F] The room [E] where it happened.
[Am] _
No one else [A] was in the room where it happened.
[D]
The room where it [E] happened.
The room where it happened.
[Am]
No one really knows [C] how the game is played.
[D]
The art of the trade, [E] how the sausage gets [F] made.
You just assume that it happens.
_ [G] _
No one else is in the room where it [Em]
happens.
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
Thomas Plains.
[F] _ Alexander was on [Eb]
Washington's doorstep one [G] day in distress and [Am]
disarray.
Thomas Plains.
[F] Alexander said,
I have nowhere [Cm] else to turn.
And basically begged me to join [Am] the fray.
Thomas Plains.
[F] I approached Madison [Eb] and said, I know you hate him, but [G] let's hear what he has [Am] to say.
Thomas Plains.
[F] Well, I arranged the meeting.
[Em]
I arranged the menu, the venue, [Am] the seating.
But no one else [A] was in the room where it [E] happened.
The room where it [B] happened.
The room where [Am] it happened. _
No one else [A] was in the room where it happened.
[Gb]
The room where it happened.
[E] The room where it happened.
[Am]
No one really knows how the party's a T.S.
[D]
Jesus had us [Am] sacrifice to every game of [Cm] chess.
We just assume that it happens.
[G]
But no one else is in the room where it [Em]
happens.
_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
Meanwhile,
[F] Madison is grappling with the [Eb] fact that not every issue can be settled [Am] by committee.
Meanwhile, [F] Congress is fighting over where [Eb] to put the Capitol.
_ [Am] It isn't pretty.
The Jefferson approaches [F] with the dinner and [Eb] invite and [Cm] Addison responds with [D] Virginia.
And _ [Am]
maybe we can solve [F] one problem with another [Em] and bring the [C] victory for the southerners.
In other [A] words, oh, oh, a quid pro quo.
I suppose.
Wouldn't you like to work a little closer to home?
Actually, I would.
Well, I propose the atonement and you'll provide him his vote.
Well, we'll see how it goes.
Let's go.
No.
What else was in the room where it [D] happened?
The room where it happened.
The room where [Am] it happened. _
No one else was [A] in the room where it [Gb] happened.
The room where it happened.
[B] The room where [Am] it happened.
My God.
We got the truck.
But we never really know what got discussed.
[A] _
Click.
Boom.
And it happened.
_ _ [G]
And [E] no one else is in the room where it happened.
[Am] Alexander Hamilton.
What did they say to you to get you to sell New York City down the [C] river?
Alexander Hamilton.
Did Washington know about the dinner?
Was there presidential pressure to deliver?
[F] _
Alexander Hamilton.
But [B] did you know [C] even then it doesn't matter where you put the US [Dm] capital?
Because we'll have the banks.
[B] We're in the same spot.
You got [E] more than you gave.
And I wanted what I got.
When you got skin in the game, you [E] stay in the game.
But you don't get a win unless you play in the game.
Oh, you get love for it.
You get hate for it.
You get nothing if you wait for it, wait for it, wait.
_ _ [F] God help and [Em] forgive me.
I want to build something [F] that's gonna outlive [E] me.
What did you want, Bert?
What did you want, Bert?
If you stand for nothing, Bert, what did you fall [Am] for?
_ _ _ I [Dm] want to be in the [F] room where it happens.
The room where it [A] happens.
_ _ _ [C] I [D] want to be in the room where it [E] happens.
The [Ab] room where it happens.
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