[JEFFERSON] Yo. Ev´ry action has an equal, opposite reaction John Adams shat the bed. I love the guy, but he´s in traction Poor Alexander Hamilton? He is missing in action So now I´m facing
[JEFFERSON AND MADISON] Aaron Burr!
[JEFFERSON] With his own faction
[MADISON]
He´s very attractive in the North. New Yorkers like his chances
[JEFFERSON] He´s not very forthcoming on any particular stances
[MADISON] Ask him a question: it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances
[JEFFERSON] And they say I´m a Francophile: at least they know I know where France is!
[MADISON] Thomas that´s the problem, see, they see Burr as a less extreme you
[JEFFERSON] Ha!
[MADISON] You need to change course, a key endorsement might redeem you
[JEFFERSON] Who did you have in mind?
[MADISON] Don´t laugh
[JEFFERSON] Who is it?
[MADISON]
You used to work on the same staff
[JEFFERSON] Whaaaat
[MADISON] It might be nice, it might be nice To get Hamilton on your side
[JEFFERSON AND MADISON] It might be nice, it might be nice To get Hamilton on your side
Don´t let ‘em know what you´re against or what you´re for! Burr! Shake hands with him! Burr! Charm her! Burr! It´s eighteen hundred, ladies, tell your husbands: vote for Burr!
[MALE VOTER 1] I don´t like Adams
[FEMALE VOTER 1] Well, he´s gonna lose, that´s just defeatist
[MALE VOTER 1]
And Jefferson
[TWO MEN VOTERS] In love with France!
[FEMALE VOTER 1] Yeah, he´s so elitist!
[TWO WOMEN] I like that Aaron Burr!
[FEMALE VOTER 2] I can´t believe we´re here with him!
[MALE VOTER 1] He seems approachable…?
[MALE VOTER 2]
Like you could grab a beer with him!
[ENSEMBLE] Dear Mr. Hamilton: your fellow Fed´ralists would like to know how you´ll be voting
[HAMILTON] It´s quiet uptown
[ENSEMBLE] Dear Mr. Hamilton: John Adams doesn´t stand a chance, so who are you promoting?
[HAMILTON] It´s quiet uptown
[MEN, WOMEN,] Jefferson or Burr?
Jefferson or Burr? We know it´s lose-lose Jefferson or Burr? Jefferson or Burr? But if you had to choose
[EVEN MORE VOTERS & MEN AND WOMEN] Dear Mr. Hamilton: (Jefferson or Burr?) John Adams doesn´t stand a chance so who are you promoting? (We know it´s lose-lose Jefferson or Burr?) But if you had to choose (But if you had to choose)
[HAMILTON] Well, if it isn´t Aaron Burr. Sir!
[BURR]
Alexander!
[HAMILTON] You´ve created quite a stir, sir!
[BURR] I´m going door to door!
[HAMILTON] You´re openly campaigning?
[BURR] Sure!
[HAMILTON] That´s new
[BURR] Honestly, it´s kind of draining
[HAMILTON] Burr
[BURR] Sir!
[HAMILTON] Is there anything you wouldn´t do?
[BURR] No. I´m chasing what I want And you know what?
[HAMILTON] What?
[BURR] I learned that from you
[ENSEMBLE] If you had to choose If you had to choose
[MADISON] It´s a tie!
[ENSEMBLE] If you had to choose If you had to choose
[JEFFERSON] It´s up to the delegates!
[ENSEMBLE] If you had to choose If you had to choose
[JEFFERSONMADISON] It´s up to Hamilton!
[VOTERS & MADISON AND ENSEMBLE] If you had to choose (Jefferson or Burr?) If you had to choose If you had to Choose (Choose) Choose (Choose) Choose! (Choose!)
[HAMILTON] Yo
[ENSEMBLE] Oh!
[HAMILTON] The people are asking to hear my voice
[ENSEMBLE] Oh!
[HAMILTON] For the country is facing a difficult choice
[ENSEMBLE] Oh!
[HAMILTON] And if you were to ask me who I´d promote
[ENSEMBLE] Oh!
[HAMILTON] Jefferson has my vote
[JEFFERSONMADISONENSEMBLE] Oh!
[HAMILTON] I have never agreed with Jefferson once
[JEFFERSONMADISONENSEMBLE] Oh!
[HAMILTON] We have fought on like seventy-five diff´rent fronts
[JEFFERSONMADISONENSEMBLE] Oh!
[HAMILTON] But when all is said and all is done Jefferson has beliefs. Burr has none
[ENSEMBLE] Oooooooooooooh
[MADISON AND JEFFERSON] Well, I´ll be damned Well, I´ll be damned
[MADISON] Hamilton´s on your side
[ENSEMBLE] Well, I´ll be damned Well, I´ll be damned
[JEFFERSON] And?
[MADISON] You won in a landslide
[BURR] Congrats on a race well-run I did give you a fight
[JEFFERSON] Uh-huh
[BURR] I look forward to our partnership
[JEFFERSON] Our partnership?
[BURR] As your vice-President
[JEFFERSON] Ha. Yeah, right You hear this guy? Man openly campaigns against me, talkin´ bout, “I look forward to our partnership.”
[MADISON] It´s crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be Vice President
[JEFFERSON] Ooh!, you know what? We can change that. You know why?
[MADISON] Why?
[JEFFERSON] ‘cuz I´m the President. Hey, Burr, when you see Hamilton, thank him for the endorsement