Say No to This Chords by Jasmine Cephas Jones, Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sydney James Harcourt, Original Broadway Cast Of Hamilton

[F#] _ _ [A] _ [D] _ There's nothing like summer in the city.
[F#] _ _ [A] _ [D] Someone under stress meets someone [F#m] looking pretty.
_ _ _ [D] _ There's trouble in [Dm] the air, you can smell it.
And Alexander's by himself.
I'll let him tell it.
[A] I hadn't slept in a week.
I was weak.
I was [Dm] awake.
You've never seen a bastard often more in need of a [D] break.
Longing for Angelica.
Missing my [A] wife.
That's when Miss Mariah Reynolds walked into my [A] life, she said.
I know you are a man [F] of honor.
I'm so sorry to bother you [F#m] at home.
But I don't know where to go.
[C] And I came here [D] all [A] alone.
She said.
My husband's doing me [Dm] wrong.
Feeding me, cheating [F#m] me, mistreating me.
Suddenly he's up [A] and gone.
I don't have the means to [F#m] go on.
So I offered her a loan.
I offered to walk [D] her home, she said.
You're too kind, [F#m] sir.
I gave her thirty bucks that I had [G#] socked away.
She lived [D] a block away, she said.
This one's mine, [F#m] sir.
Then I said, well I should head back home.
She turned [D] red.
She led me to a bed, let her legs spread [Dm] and said.
Stay.
Hey.
Hey.
That's when I began [A] to pray.
Lord, show me how to say no to this.
I don't know how to say [F#m] no to this.
Oh my God, she looked so helpless.
[A] And her body's saying, [D] hell yes.
[A]
Lord, show me how to say no to [F] this.
I don't know how to say no to [F#m] this.
In my mind I'm trying to go.
[A] Then her mouth is [D] on mine and I don't [A] say.
No, no, say no to this.
No, no, say no to [F#m] this.
No, no, say no to [A] this.
No, no, say no to [A] this.
I wish I could say that was the last time.
I said that last time, it became a [F#m] pastime.
A month into this endeavor, I [A] received a letter from a Mr.
James Reynolds.
Even better, it said.
Dear sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health
and in a prosperous enough position to put [G] wealth
in [A] the pockets of people like me.
Down on their luck, you see, that was my wife
who you decided to [G] fuck.
[A] Uh-oh, you made the wrong sucker a cucko.
So time to pay the piper for the [Dm] pants you unbuckled.
And [A] hey, you can keep seeing my whore wife.
Christ is right.
If not, I'm telling [G] your wife.
[F#m] I hit the letter and I raced to her place.
Screamed, I'll [D] cut you in the face.
She said, no, [F#m] sir.
Just apologetic, a mess.
She looked [D] pathetic, cried.
Play ghost letter.
[F#m] What's the whole story?
You said I don't know.
[E] Play ghost letter.
Stuck crying, goddammit, [F#m] get out.
I didn't know any better.
I am ruined.
Please don't [E] leave me.
I am helpless.
[D] How could I do this?
Just give him what he [E] wants and you can [D] have me.
I don't want you.
Whatever he wants, if [A#m] you play.
I [A#] _ _ [B] _
don't want you.
Say no to this.
I don't know how to say [G#m] no to this.
But the situation's helpless.
[B] And her body's screaming, hell [E] yes.
[B] Don't show me how to say no to this.
How can I say no to this?
[G#m] There is nowhere I can go.
[B] When her body's on [E] mine, I do not say [B]
no.
Just give him [G] it.
Oh, just give him [G#m] it. No.
Yes.
Say no to this. [B] No.
Yes.
Say no to this.
Say no to this.
I don't say no to [G#m] this.
There is [B] nowhere I can go.
_ So? _ _ _
Nobody [F#] needs to know.
_ [Gm] _ _ _