Hamilton - Burn Chords & Tabs

by Misc Musicals

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Basic Pattern:
BPM: 66
Denominator: 4
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 1]
Triplet Pattern:
BPM: 66
Denominator: 8
Triplet: Yes
Measures: [3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1]
Burn from Hamilton (by Lin-Manuel Miranda)

[Intro]
   Bm            F#            Bm                         
e|-----2-3-2---|-----2-3-2---|-----2-3-2---|-3-2---3-2---|
B|---3-------3-|---2-------2-|---3-------3-|-----3-----3-|
G|-4-----------|-3-----------|-4-----------|-------------| x2
D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

[Verse]
(ELIZA)
  Bm                      F#     
I saved every letter you wrote me
G                 D        
From the moment I read them
  Em            Bm  
I knew you were mine
                   F# 
You said you were mine
                   G   D
I thought you were mine
Bm                 F#         
Do you know what Angelica said
         G                     D     Em
When we saw your first letter arrive?
She said
Bm               F#            
“Be careful with that one, love
        G                      D     
He will do what it takes to survive.”

[Pre-Chorus]
D/C#         Bm               F#    
You and your words flooded my senses
      G                    D      
Your sentences left me defenseless
Em             Bm             F#      
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
             G      D
You built cathedrals
         Bm                     F#     
I’m re-reading the letters you wrote me
      G                          D    
I’m searching and scanning for answers
    Em   Bm  
In every line
                  F# 
For some kind of sign
                   G  
And when you were mine
The world seemed to

[Chorus]
D   Bm
Burn
D   Bm
Burn

[Verse]
     Bm                        F#      
You published the letters she wrote you
    G                             D     
You told the whole world how you brought
           Em      Bm 
This girl into our bed
                 F#                         G   D
In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives
Bm                 F#         G
Do you know what Angelica said
                          D   Em
When she read what you’d done?
        Bm
She said
                       F#  
“You have married an Icarus
        G                      D   
He has flown too close to the sun.”

[Pre-Chorus]
C#dim        Bm                        F#       
You and your words, obsessed with your legacy...
       G                    D     
Your sentences border on senseless
Em           Bm                F#      
And you are paranoid in every paragraph
            G        
How they perceive you
You, you, you…
     Bm                      F#      
I’m erasing myself from the narrative
     G                  D         Em  
Let future historians wonder how Eliza
Bm                        F#    
Reacted when you broke her heart
G                         
You have torn it all apart
I am watching it

[Chorus]
D/A Bm
Burn
            D/A Bm
Watching it burn

[Bridge]
                 A             D  
The world has no right to my heart
                  F#m            
The world has no place in our bed
      Bm                      G   
They don’t get to know what I said
     A             D    
I’m burning the memories
             F#m                    Bm          
Burning the letters that might have redeemed you
      G       A           D       
You forfeit all rights to my heart
                 F#m            
You forfeit the place in our bed
        Bm                   G     
You'll sleep in your office instead
      A         D     
With only the memories
             F#m     D/F#
Of when you were mine

[Outro]
                Bm  F#G
I hope that you   burn