What'd I Miss
[00:00.00] ACT TWO
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[00:00.00] WHAT’D I MISS
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[00:02.41] [COMPANY – ALL]
[00:03.41] Seventeen. Se– se– seventeen…
[00:06.65] Se– se– seventeen…
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[00:08.60] [BURR – 3]
[00:08.70] 1789
[00:11.03] How does the bastard orphan
[00:12.91] Immigrant decorated war vet
[00:14.71] Unite the colonies through more debt?
[00:17.00] Fight the other founding fathers til he has to forfeit?
[00:19.72] Have it all, lose it all
[00:21.03] You ready for more yet?
[00:22.39] Treasury Secretary. Washington’s the President
[00:25.00] Ev’ry American experiment sets a precedent
[00:28.01] Not so fast. Someone came along to resist him
[00:30.83] Pissed him off until we had a two-party system
[00:33.64] You haven’t met him yet, you haven’t had the chance
[00:36.04] ‘cause he’s been kickin’ ass as the ambassador to France
[00:38.85] But someone’s gotta keep the American promise
[00:41.82] You simply must meet Thomas. Thomas!
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[00:44.48] [WOMEN]
[00:45.35] Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!
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[00:47.92] [MEN]
[00:48.03] Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!
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[00:50.49] [WOMEN]
[00:50.69] Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!
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[00:53.00] [MEN]
[00:53.10] Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!
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[00:55.50] [ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[00:55.63] Thomas Jefferson’s coming home Lord he’s
[00:58.72] Been off in Paris for so long!
[01:06.36] Aaa-ooo!
[01:12.36] Aaa-ooo!
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[01:12.60] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[01:12.70] France is following us to revolution
[01:15.61] There is no more status quo
[01:18.95] But the sun comes up
[01:19.99] And the world still spins [ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[01:21.86] Aaa-ooo!
[01:23.01] I helped Lafayette draft a declaration
[01:25.83] Then I said, ‘I gotta go
[01:28.86] I gotta be in Monticello.’
[01:31.45] Now the work at home begins…
[01:33.85] Aaa-ooo!
[01:37.27] So what’d I miss?
[01:40.00] What’d I miss?
[01:43.43] Virginia, my home sweet home, I wanna give you a kiss
[01:48.19] I’ve been in Paris meeting lots of different ladies…
[01:51.33] I guess I basically missed the late eighties…
[01:53.94] I traveled the wide, wide world and came back to this…
[01:58.63] Aaa-ooo!
[01:59.99] There’s a letter on my desk from the President
[02:02.55] Haven’t even put my bags down yet
[02:04.41] Sally be a lamb, darlin’, won’t cha open it?
[02:06.82] It says the President’s assembling a cabinet
[02:09.43] And that I am to be the Secretary of State, great!
[02:12.35] And that I’m already Senate-approved…
[02:14.83] I just got home and now I’m headed up to New York
[02:18.69] Headin’ to New York!
[02:19.50] Headin’ to New York!
[02:20.64] Lookin’ at the rolling fields
[02:22.72] I can’t believe that we are free Believe that we are free
[02:26.87] Ready to face whatever’s awaiting
[02:28.93] Me in N.Y.C. Me in N.Y.C.
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[02:32.16] But who’s waitin’ for me when I step in the place?
[02:34.33] My friend James Madison, red in the face
[02:37.05] He grabs my arm and I respond
[02:40.39] “What’s goin’ on?”
[02:41.89] Aaa-ooo!
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[02:43.29] [MADISON – 6]
[02:43.50] Thomas, we are engaged in a battle for our nation’s very soul
[02:48.69] Can you get us out of the mess we’re in? [ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[02:52.14] Aaa-ooo!
[02:53.08] Hamilton’s new financial plan is nothing less
[02:56.20] Than government control
[02:58.82] I’ve been fighting for the South alone
[03:02.04] Where have you been?
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[03:03.61] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[03:03.82] Uh… France.
[03:04.66] Aaa-ooo!
[03:05.39] [MADISON – 6]
[03:05.70] We have to win
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[03:07.37] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[03:07.79] Well, what’d I miss? [ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[03:08.73] Wha? Wha? What’d I miss?
[03:10.30] What’d I miss?
[03:11.45] I’ve come home to this?
[03:12.91] Headfirst into a political abyss!
[03:16.14] Headfirst into the abyss!
[03:18.63] I have my first cabinet meeting today
[03:20.41] Chik-a-pow!
[03:21.23] I guess I better think of something to say
[03:23.10] I’m already on my way On my way
[03:25.80] To get to the bottom of this…
[03:27.26] What did I miss?
[03:28.82] Ahhh ah!
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[03:29.86] [WASHINGTON – 7]
[03:30.07] Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
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[03:33.30] [HAMILTON – 1]
[03:33.71] Mr. Jefferson? Alexander Hamilton
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[03:35.48] [WASHINGTON AND ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[03:35.80] Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
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[03:40.31] [COMPANY – ALL]
[03:41.67] Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
[03:43.95] Sir, you’ve been off in Paris for so long!
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[03:51.32] [JEFFERSON – 4]
[03:52.15] So what did I miss
