Chords for The Room Where It Happens

_ _ [Fm] Ah, Mr.
Secretary.
Mr.
Burr.
Sir.
Did you hear the news about good old General Mercer?
No.
You know Claremont Street?
Yeah.
He renamed it after him.
The Mercer Legacy is secure.
Sure.
And all he had to do was die.
That's a lot less work.
We ought to give it a try.
Now how you gonna get your debt plan through?
I guess I'm gonna finally have to listen to [Am] you.
Really? [F] Talk less.
[Eb] _
_ [G] Smile more.
[Am] Do [F] whatever it takes to [Eb] get my plan on the [Cm] Congress floor.
[Am] The [F] Madison and Jefferson are [Eb]
merciless.
Well, hate the sin, love the [Am] sinner.
Hamilton.
[F] I'm sorry, Burr.
I gotta [Em] go.
But.
[C] Decisions are happening over dinner.
_ [Fm] _ _ [Am]
Two [F] Virginians and an immigrant [Cm] walk into a room.
Diametrically opposed.
[Am] Foes.
They [F] emerge with a compromise, [Eb] having opened doors that were previously closed.
[Am] The immigrant [F] emerges with unprecedented [Eb] financial power, a [Eb] system he can shape however [Am] he wants.
The [F] Virginians emerge with the [Em] nation's capital.
[C] And here's the pièce de [A] résistance.
No one else was in the room where it [D] happened.
The room where it happened.
The room where it [Am] happened.
No one [A] else was in the room where it [D] happened.
The room where it [E] happened.
The room where it [Am] happened.
No one really [C] knows how the game is [D] played.
The art of the [E] trade.
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 [F] Plains.
Alexander was [Eb] on Washington's doorstep [G] one day in distress [Am] and disarray.
Thomas [F] Plains.
Alexander said, I've [Cm] nowhere else to turn.
And basically begged me to [Am] join the fray.
Thomas [F] Plains.
I approached Madison [Eb] and said, I know you hate him, but let's hear what he [Am] has to say.
Thomas [F] Plains.
Well, I arranged the [Em] meeting.
I arranged the menu, the venue, the [Am] seating.
But no one [A] else was in the room where it [E] happened.
The room where it [B] happened.
The room where it [Am] happened.
No one [A] else was in the room where it [Gb] happened.
The room where it [Ab] happened.
The room where it [Am] happened.
No one really knows how the party's [D] ETS.
Chances that are [Am] sacrificed in 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 by [Am] committee.
Meanwhile, [F] Congress is fighting over [Eb] where to put the Capitol.
But it isn't [Am] pretty.
Then Jefferson [F] approaches with a dinner and [Eb] invite.
And Madison [Cm] responds with Virginia and [Am] any sight.
Maybe we can [F] solve one problem with [Em] another and win the victory [C] for the Southerners.
In other words, a quid pro quo.
I propose.
Wouldn't you like to work a little closer to home?
Actually, I would.
Well, I propose the Potomac.
And you'll provide him his vote.
Well, we'll see how it goes.
Let's go.
No.
What [A] else was in the room where it [D] happened?
The room where it [Ab] happened.
The room where it [Am] happened.
No one [A] else was in the room where it [Gb] happened.
The room where it [B] happened.
The room where it [Am] happened.
My God, it got tough.
But we never really know what got [F] discussed.
Big boom and it happened.
[G] And no one [E] else is in the room where it [Am] happened.
Alexander Hamilton.
What did they say to you?
They asked you to sell New York City down the river.
[C] Alexander Hamilton.
Did Washington know about the dinner?
Was there presidential pressure to [F] deliver?
Alexander Hamilton.
Or did you [C] know even then it doesn't matter where you put the US [Dm] Capitol?
Because we'll have the banks.
We're in the same spot.
You got more than you gave.
And I wanted what I [E] got.
When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game.
But you don't get a will unless you play in the game.
Oh, you get love for it.
You get hate for it.
You get nothing.
And it's a ring for a gate for a gate.
[F] God help and [Em] forgive me.
I want to build something that's going to [E] outlive me.
What if you want her?
What if you bump her?
If you stand for nothing, girl, what do you [Am] fall for?
_ I [Dm] want to be in the room where it happens.
The [E] room where it [A] happens.
I [D] want to be in the room where it happens.
[Ab] The room where it happens.
[Am] _ _ [A] I [Am] want to be in the room where it happens.
The room where it happens.
[F] The room where it [Am] happens.
[Cm] I want to be [Am] in the room where it happens.
[E] _
[Am] I want to be in the room where it happens.
I [Ab] want to be in the [Am] room where it happens.
I want to be in [A] the room where it happens.
[E] The [Am] _ art of the compromise.
[Dm] Hold your nose and close your [Am] eyes.
You want a leader?
Sustaining hand.
[Dm] You don't get a say in what they trade away.
We dream of a brand new start.
But we [Am] dream in the dark for the most [F] part.
Dark as a tomb where it [D] happens.
I've got to [E] be in the room where it [Am] happens.
I've got to be in the room where it happens.
I've got [D] to be in the room where it [Am] happens.
I've got to be in the room where it happens.
I gotta be.
[D] I gotta be, oh we're Miami.
Fools be [Gb] in the room where it [E] happens. _