BURR:Someone under stress meets someone looking pretty
There’s trouble in the air, you can smell it
And Alexander’s by himself. I’ll let him tell it
HAMILTON:
I hadn’t slept in a week
I was weak, I was awake
You never seen a bastard orphan
More in need of a break
Longing for Angelica
Missing my wife
That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into my life, she said:
MARIA:
I know you are a man of honor
I’m so sorry to bother you at home
But I don’t know where to go, and I came here all alone…
HAMILTON:
She said:
MARIA:
My husband’s doin’ me wrong
Beatin’ me, cheatin’ me, mistreatin’ me...
Suddenly he’s up and gone
I don’t have the means to go on
HAMILTON:
So I offered her a loan, I offered to walk her home, she said
MARIA:
You’re too kind, sir
HAMILTON:
I gave her thirty bucks that I had socked away
She lived a block away, she said:
MARIA:
This one’s mine, sir
HAMILTON:
Then I said, “well, I should head back home,”
She turned red, she led me to her bed
Let her legs spread and said:
MARIA:
Stay?
HAMILTON:
Hey…
MARIA:
Hey…
HAMILTON:
That’s when I began to pray:
Lord, show me how to
Say no to this
I don’t know how to
Say no to this
But my God, she looks so helpless
And her body’s saying, “hell, yes”
MARIA:
Whoa...
HAMILTON:
Nooo, show me how to
HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE:
Say no to this
HAMILTON:
I don’t know how to
HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE:
Say no to this
HAMILTON:
In my mind, I’m tryin’ to go
ENSEMBLE:
Go! Go! Go!
HAMILTON:
Then her mouth is on mine, and I don’t say…
ENSEMBLE:
No! No!
Say no to this!
No! No!
Say no to this!
No! No!
Say no to this!
No! No!
Say no to this!
HAMILTON:
I wish I could say that was the last time
I said that last time. It became a pastime
A month into this endeavor I received a letter
From a Mr. James Reynolds, even better, it said:
JAMES:
Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health
And in a prosperous enough position to put wealth
In the pockets of people like me: down on their luck
You see, that was my wife who you decided to
HAMILTON:
Fuuuu
JAMES:
Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold
So time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled
And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife
If the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife
HAMILTON:
I hid the letter and I raced to her place
Screamed “How could you?!” in her face
She said:
MARIA:
No, sir!
HAMILTON:
Half dressed, apologetic. A mess, she looked
Pathetic, she cried:
MARIA:
Please don’t go, sir!
HAMILTON:
So was your whole story a setup?
MARIA:
I don’t know about any letter!
HAMILTON:
Stop crying Goddamnit, get up!
MARIA:
I didn’t know any better
HAMILTON:
I am ruined...
MARIA:
Please don’t leave me with him helpless
HAMILTON:
I am helpless—how could I do this?
MARIA:
Just give him what he wants and you can have me
HAMILTON:
I don’t want you
MARIA:
Whatever you want
HAMILTON:
I don’t want you
MARIA: HAMILTON:
If you pay I don’t…
You can stay
. Lord, show me how to ENSEMBLE:
. Say no to this Say no to this!
Tonight I don’t know how to
. Say no to this Say no to this!
. Cuz the situation’s helpless
Helpless
. And her body’s screaming,
. “Hell, yes”
Whoa!
. No, show me how to
. Say no to this Say no to this!
How can you How can I
Say no to this? Say no to this? Say no to this!
. There is nowhere I can go
. Go! Go! Go!
. When her body’s on mine
. I do not say…
HAMILTON:
Yes
MARIA: ENSEMBLE:
Yes! Say no to this! No!
HAMILTON:
Yes
MARIA:
Yes! Say no to this! No!
HAMILTON:
Yes
MARIA:
Yes! Say no to this! No!
HAMILTON:
Yes
MARIA:
Yes! Say no to this!
HAMILTON:
Say no to this…
MARIA:
Don’t say no to this
HAMILTON:
I don’t say no to this
There is nowhere I can go.
ENSEMBLE:
Go go go...
JAMES:
So?
HAMILTON:
Nobody needs to know
