Chords for Andy Mientus – "Franklin Shepard, Inc" (from 'Merrily We Roll Along')

Now, how do you two work together?
May I [C] answer that?
Please.
_ [Eb] How do we work together? _
Shoot.
[C] _ He goes, [Dbm] _ _ [A] _
and I go.
_ [Dbm] _ [Eb] _ And [Db] we're swinging here, humming along.
_ And that's Paul's writing a [Abm] song.
_ [Abm] Then he goes, [Ab] and I go.
_ And the phone [D] goes, brrrring.
And he goes, [C] _ _ _ _
murr murr murr murr.
That's his lawyer, Jerome.
Murr murr murr murr murr murr.
Do it, Jerome.
Say, sorry, Charlie.
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ So I go, [E] _ _ [Ab] and he goes, [Abm] _ _ [C] and I go.
_ [Ab] _
[Db] And soon we're topping away. _ _
Sorry, Charlie!
It's the secretary on [A] the intercom.
Yes, Ms.
Biz, the messenger.
Thank [E] Ms.
Biz.
Will you tell him to wait?
Will you order the car?
Will you call the bank?
[D] Will you wire the coast?
Will you [C] brrrrring?
Sorry, Charlie.
Murr murr murr murr murr.
Stop, stop.
Murr by the rights.
Murr murr murr murr murr murr.
You want to hold.
[D] He asks Miss Biz at the end of you.
Thanks Miss Biz, but you told him to wait.
Well, you wired the [A] car, we awarded the post,
we'll send up a bank.
There's telephone pipe, it's about to get sold,
and the rest of us, he keeps on holding.
[C] He's in the making movies, he's in the sound programmation.
[Bb] Right?
[C] So I play at home with my wife and kids
and I wait to hear the [C] movie bids
and I got a little sailboat, and I make the meditation.
Right.
[F] He flies off to California. _ _
I discuss him with my shrink. _
That's the [A] story of the way we work.
Me and Franklin Shepard.
_ [C] _ [Bm] I am surprised how much I'm enjoying that.
_ _ [Dm] I heard you guys wrote a song for the Oscars.
I know.
[F] _ _
You _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] work together, I've always been curious.
Which generally [Db] comes first, the words [Ab] or the music? _
Generally the [Eb] contract.
_ _ Oh, that sounds like you think that making money
is a bad thing for an artist. _
Money.
_ _ _ [A] Did I say money? _
_ [Abm] _ [D] No, I [Db] like money a lot.
Mmm, I mean [E] it's better not.
[Abm] Mmm, but when [Bm] it's money, money, [A]
money,
when you're in money [Ab] and you should be. _ _
_ _ [C] Listen, Frank does the money thing very well,
but you know what?
There's other people that do it better.
_ And Frank does the music very well.
_ And you know what? _
No one does it better.
[F] Still, [D] the telephone's blinked, the buzzer's buzzed,
I really don't know what he does,
[C] but he makes a ton of money.
[Am] And a lot of it for me, [D] right?
So [C] I think, okay, let's start a play.
Somehow knows his right [A] away, brrring.
I might run a red show,
maybe I can create a deal with [D] all the rights.
Look, two weeks out, I'm gonna turn around,
I'm guaranteed by the broker [A] center,
I'm a billing claw.
[E] There I am in _
[Em] California,
_ [D] talking deals [G] and turning, _
_ _ [E] _ talking business [G] and I mean [B] just that.
Back with Franklin [G] Shepard. _ _
_ [E] Very sneaky how it happens.
_ [C]
Much more sneaky [C] than you think.
_ [A] Start with nothing, but I'm stoned to [D] say,
next you're Franklin Shepard.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, [B] wait a minute, wait a minute.
Get [Ab] into the music.
You see, Frank [Eb] and I are not that close anymore.
Not as we used to be.
And [C] friendship is like a garden.
You have to water [Eb] it, you have to tend it,
you have to care about it.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Nothing permanent has happened.
_ _ [Db] _ _ [Dm] _
Just [Bm] a temporary [C] kick.
_ [Dbm] _ _
_ [D] _ _ Friendship's something you [Gm] don't really need.
[B] Ladies and gentlemen,
don't let me lose [Eb] the greatest composer
[Ab] any lyricist has ever known.
Tell him, [A]
write to him, stop him on the street,
you'll recognize him,
he's the one going through his checkbook. _
Tell that man to get back to his piano.
_ _ [Am] _
[D] Very sneaky how it happens.
_ _ _ Every day you're on [G] the brink.
_ _ _ [A] First the [D] prizes and [Em] the _ [A] interviews.
[Bb] _
_ _ [D] Oh my God, [G] I think it's happened.
[D] _ Gotta be quick before I sink.
One more triumph that I can't [Em] refuse.
Did [F] you notice this is my first time on TV?
And my last.
No, [D] here's the point.
Whatever [C] _ happens,
[Dm] then we'll all go [C] have a drink.
_ [Dm] That's the guy I [Am] love,
the fellow who's [A] _ inside.
[D] Mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, quick Jerome,
get the president,
there's a crazy man on my TV screen.
_ [Em] Inside.
_ _ [G] Brrrrring.
_ [Am] _ [Dm] Inside Franklin [C] Shepard.
Yeah, just write him,
hair of any man, USA.
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