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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1860971,"song":"Hamilton - Right Hand Man","artist":"Misc Musicals","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1860971-hamilton-right-hand-man-chords-by-misc-musicals/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1860971?type=chord","rating":4.79265,"votes":46,"content":"[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]                                       [ch]Cm7[/ch]\r\nBritish Admiral Howe's got troops on the water[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm6[/ch]                                      [ch]Abmaj7[/ch]\r\nThirty-two thousand troops in New York Harbour…[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]                                       [ch]Cm7[/ch]\r\nThirty-two thousand troops in New York Harbour…[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm6[/ch]                                              [ch]Abmaj7[/ch]\r\nWhen they surround our troops! They surround our troops! (They surround our troops!)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nAs a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/D[/ch]\r\nI knew that I was poor, I knew it was the only way to[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/Eb[/ch]\r\n(Rise up), if they tell my story[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Cm/F[/ch]\r\nI am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\n(Rise up), I will fight for this land but there's[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/D[/ch]\r\nOnly one man Who can give us a command, so we can[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/Eb[/ch]                                        [ch]Cm/F[/ch]\r\n(Rise up), understand, it's the only way to (rise up, rise up)[/tab]\r\nN.C.\r\nHere he comes!\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\n(Here comes the general!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nLadies and gentlemen![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]\r\n(Here comes the general!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nThe moment you've been waiting for![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\n(Here comes the general!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nThe Pride of Mount Vernon![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]\r\n(Here comes the general!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nGeorge Washington![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nWe are out-gunned! (what!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nOut-manned! (what!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]  \r\nOut-numbered, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nout-planned! [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nWe gotta make an all-out [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nstand Hey yo[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]\r\nI'm gonna need a right-hand [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nman [/tab]\r\n\r\nHere comes the general!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nN.C.\r\nCan I be real a second? For just a millisecond?\r\nLet down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?\r\nNow I'm the model of a modern major general\r\nThe venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Cm[/ch]                    [ch]Ab[/ch]   \r\nLining up to put me up on a pedestal, writing letters to [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]                         [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nRelatives embellishing my elegance and eloquence[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]                          [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nBut the elephant is in the room, the truth is in your [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]                             [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nFace When you hear the British cannons go (BOOM!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]                      [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nAny hope of success is fleeting How can I keep [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F9/A[/ch]                         [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nLeading when the people I'm leading keep retreating?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]                      [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nWe put a stop to the bleeding as the British take [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]                    [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nBrooklyn Knight takes rook, but look[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nWe are out-gunned! (what!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nOut-manned! (what!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]  \r\nOut-numbered, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nout-planned! [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nWe gotta make an all-out [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nstand Hey yo[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]\r\nI'm gonna need a right-hand [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nman [/tab]\r\nN.C.\r\nIncoming!\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nThey're battering down the Battery, check the damages (brrah!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/D[/ch]\r\nWe gotta stop ‘em and rob ‘em of their advantages (brrah!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/Eb[/ch]\r\nLet's take a stand with the stamina God has granted us[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/F[/ch]\r\nHamilton won't abandon ship, yo, let's steal their cannons![/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]                      [ch]Cm/D[/ch]\r\n(BOOM) goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit spray, and[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/Eb[/ch]                          [ch]Cm/F[/ch]\r\n(BOOM) goes the cannon, we're abandoning Kips Bay, and[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\n(BOOM) there's another ship, and[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/D[/ch]\r\n(BOOM) we just lost the southern tip and[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/Eb[/ch]\r\n(BOOM) we've gotta run to Harlem quick, we can't afford another slip[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nGuns and horses giddy up, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/D[/ch]\r\nI decide to divvy up[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/Eb[/ch]\r\nMy forces, they're skittish as the [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/F[/ch]\r\nBritish cut the city up[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nThis close to giving up, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/D[/ch]\r\nFacing mad scrutiny[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/Eb[/ch]                             [ch]Cm/F[/ch]\r\nI scream in the face of this mass mutiny:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm9[/ch]\r\n\"Are these the men with which I am to defend America?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm9/D[/ch]\r\nWe ride at midnight, Manhattan in the distance[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/Eb[/ch]\r\nI cannot be everywhere at once, people[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/F[/ch]                  \r\nI'm in dire need of assistance[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nYour Excellency, sir Who are you? Aaron Burr, sir[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nPermission to state my case? As you were...Sir, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nI was a captain under General Montgomery Until he caught a [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab6/F[/ch]                     [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nBullet in the neck in Quebec, and well, in summary[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nI think that I could be of some assistance[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI admire how you keep firing on the British from a distance[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nI have some questions, a couple of suggestions[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab6/F[/ch]                              [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nOn how to fight instead of fleeing west Yes?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nYour Excellency? You wanted to see me?[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nHamilton, come in. Have you met Burr? Yes, sir We keep meeting...[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nAs I was saying, sir I look forward to seeing your strategy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab6/F[/ch]                                              [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nplay out—Burr? Sir? Close the door on your way out[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nHave I done something wrong, sir? On the contrary[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI called you here because our odds are beyond scary[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nYour reputation precedes you, but I have to laugh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab6/F[/ch]                  [ch]Bb[/ch]                 \r\nHamilton, how come no one can get you on their staff?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nDon't get me wrong, you're a young man of great renown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI know you stole British cannons when we were still downtown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nNathanael Greene and Henry Knox wanted to hire you—[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Ab6/F[/ch]                 \r\nTo be their secretary! I don't think so[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nNow why are you [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nUpset? I'm not It's alright you want to fight, you've got a [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nHunger I was just like you when I was younger[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nHead full of fantasies of dying like a martyr[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab6/F[/ch]                      [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nDying is easy, young man; living is harder[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nWhy are you telling me this? I'm being honest[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI'm working with a third of what our Congress has promised[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nWe are a powder keg about to explode[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Ab6/F[/ch]                                   [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nI need someone like you to lighten the load[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/G[/ch]                       [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nI am not throwing away my shot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]                        [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nI am not throwing away my shot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/G[/ch]                                  [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nHey yo I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]\r\nI am not throwing away my shot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/G[/ch]                                        [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nSon, we are outgunned! Outmanned!  You need all the help you can get, [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]                                          [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nI have some friends, Laurens, Mulligan, Marquis de Lafayette! Okay, what else?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/G[/ch]               [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nOutnumbered, out planned! We'll need some spies on the [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]                         [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nInside Some king's men who might let some things slide[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/G[/ch]                              [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nI'll write to Congress and tell them we need supplies[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F/A[/ch]                              [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nYou rally the guys, master the element of surprise[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/G[/ch]                          [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nI'll rise above my station, organize your information[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F/A[/ch]                  [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\n‘Til we rise to the occasion of our new nation, sir![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/G[/ch]                      [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nHere comes the general! Rise up! (What!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]                       [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nHere comes the general! Rise up! (What!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm/G[/ch]                      [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nHere comes the general! Rise up! (What!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F/A[/ch]                       [ch]Ab[/ch]\r\nHere comes the general! What![/tab]\r\nN.C.\r\nAnd his right-hand man!\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nBOOM![/tab]","plain_text":"N.C.\nHere he comes!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHere comes the general!\n\n\n\nN.C.\nCan I be real a second? For just a millisecond?\nLet down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?\nNow I'm the model of a modern major general\nThe venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nN.C.\nIncoming!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nN.C.\nAnd his right-hand man!","chords":["Cm","Cm7","Cm6","Abmaj7","Cm/D","Cm/Eb","Cm/F","C","Ab","F/A","F9/A","Cm9","Cm9/D","Gm","Ab6/F","Bb","Cm/G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Cm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,3,5,5,4,3]},"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}