[Intro] D  A

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Let me tell you what I wish I’d known
                                Em
When I was young and dreamed of glory

You have no control

    G
Who lives

Who dies
    F#
Who tells your story?

Bm
President Jefferson

                          D
I’ll give him this: his financial system is a
                Em
Work of genius. I couldn’t undo it if I tried

And I tried

    G
Who lives

Who dies
    F#
Who tells your story?

Bm
President Madison

                                       D
He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity
                                              Em
I hate to admit it, but he doesn’t get enough credit

For all the credit he gave us

    G
Who lives

Who dies
    F#
Who tells your story?

Bm
Every other founding father story gets told
D
Every other founding father gets to grow old

Em
But when you’re gone, who remembers your name?
G
Who keeps your flame?

    F#
Who tells your story? 
                          
Who tells your story?

Who tells your story?
   Bm
Your story?

D
Eliza

                         F#
I put myself back in the narrative

Eliza

  Bm
I stop wasting time on tears
  G                  Gm
I live another fifty years

It’s not enough

Eliza

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I interview every soldier who fought by your side

She tells our story

Bm                                                G
I try to make sense of your thousands of pages of writings
              Gm
You really do write like you’re running out of—

D
Time

I rely on—

Angelica

F#
While she’s alive—

We tell your story

Bm
She is buried in Trinity Church

     G
Near you

                  Gm
When I needed her most, she was right on—

D
Time

And I’m still not through
  F#
I ask myself, “What would you do if you had more—”

Bm
Time

The Lord, in his kindness
   G                        Bb
He gives me what you always wanted

He gives me more—

Eb
Time

                              Gm
I raise funds in D.C. for the Washington Monument

    G            Cm
She tells my story

I speak out against slavery
Ab                          G7
You could have done so much more if you only had—

Eb
Time

                                G
And when my time is up, have I done enough?

                       Cm
Will they tell our story?

Will they tell your story?

                            Ab
Oh. Can I show you what I’m proudest of?
    Eb
The orphanage
                        Gm      G
I established the first private orphanage in New York City

    Cm
The orphanage

                            Ab
I help to raise hundreds of children
  G7
I get to see them growing up

    Eb
The orphanage
                         Bb
In their eyes I see you, Alexander

I see you every—

Eb
Time


And when my time is up
       G
Have I done enough?
                  G7  Cm
Will they tell my story?

Will they tell your story?

                             Ab
Oh, I can’t wait to see you again
     G7
It’s only a matter of—

Eb   G
Time

Will they tell your story?

Who lives, who dies
                     Cm  Ab
Who tells your story? Time
Eb  G
Time

Will they tell your story?
Cm  Ab
Time

Who lives, who dies—

    Bb             Eb
Who tells your story?