BURR: There's nothing like summer in the city
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
REYNOLDS: 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—
REYNOLDS: Uh-oh!
You made the wrong sucker a c**d
So time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled
And hey, you can keep seein' my w**e 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
M: with him helpless H: I am helpless—
HAMILTON: 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: If you pay you can stay
HAMILTON: Lord, show me how to
ENSEMBLE: say no to this! M: Tonight
HAMILTON: I don't know how to
ENSEMBLE: Say no to this!
HAMILTON: Cuz the situation's helpless
MARIA: Helpless
HAMILTON: And her body's screaming "Hell, yes"
MARIA: Whoa!
HAMILTON: No, show me how to
ENSEMBLE: Say no to this!
HAMILTON: How can I
ENSEMBLE: say no to this?
HAMILTON: There is nowhere I can go
ENSEMBLE: Go! Go! Go!
HAMILTON: When her body's on mine I do not say
ENSEMBLE: No!
HAMILTON: Yes!
ENSEMBLE: Say no to this! MARIA: Yes!
ENSEMBLE: No!
HAMILTON: Yes!
ENSEMBLE: Say no to this! MARIA: Yes!
ENSEMBLE: No!
HAMILTON: Yes!
ENSEMBLE: Say no to this! MARIA: Yes!
ENSEMBLE: No!
HAMILTON: Yes!
ENSEMBLE: Say no to this!
MARIA: Yes!
H: I don't say no to this M: Don't say no to this
HAMILTON: there is nowhere I can go
ENSEMBLE: Go go go…
REYNOLDS: So?
HAMILTON: Nobody needs to know
