Hamilton Say No To This
[00:00.00] SAY NO TO THIS
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[00:03.69] [BURR – 3]
[00:03.87] There’s nothing like summer in the city
[00:08.96] Someone under stress meets someone looking pretty
[00:15.44] There’s trouble in the air, you can smell it
[00:17.93] And Alexander’s by himself. I’ll let him tell it
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[00:22.40] [HAMILTON – 2]
[00:23.23] I hadn’t slept in a week
[00:24.67] I was weak, I was awake
[00:26.44] You never seen a bastard orphan
[00:28.00] More in need of a break
[00:29.66] Longing for Angelica
[00:31.12] Missing my wife
[00:32.37] That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into my life, she said:
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[00:35.68] [MARIA – ALL WOMEN]
[00:35.89] I know you are a man of honor
[00:38.60] I’m so sorry to bother you at home
[00:41.61] But I don’t know where to go, and I came here all alone…
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[00:47.00] [HAMILTON – 2]
[00:47.10] She said:
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[00:47.36] [MARIA – ALL WOMEN]
[00:47.67] My husband’s doin’ me wrong
[00:49.96] Beatin’ me, cheatin’ me, mistreatin’ me…
[00:53.49] Suddenly he’s up and gone
[00:56.35] I don’t have the means to go on
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[00:58.75] [HAMILTON – 2]
[00:59.17] So I offered her a loan,
[01:00.42] I offered to walk her home,
[01:01.88] she said [MARIA – ALL WOMEN]
[01:02.71] You’re too kind, sir
[01:04.99] I gave her thirty bucks
[01:05.82] that I had socked away
[01:06.95] She lived a block away,
[01:07.99] she said:
[01:08.62] This one’s mine, sir
[01:10.60] Then I said,
[01:11.23] “well, I should head back home,”
[01:12.59] She turned red,
[01:13.73] she led me to her bed
[01:15.08] Let her legs spread and said:
[01:16.73] Stay?
[01:18.50] Hey…
[01:19.86] Hey…
[01:21.52] That’s when I began to pray:
[01:22.76] Lord, show me how to
[01:24.22] Say no to this
[01:25.47] I don’t know how to
[01:27.38] Say no to this
[01:28.32] But my God, she looks so helpless
[01:31.66] And her body’s saying, “hell, yes”
[01:34.17] Whoa…
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[01:35.00] [HAMILTON – 2]
[01:35.21] Nooo, show me how to [ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[01:36.22] Say no to this Say no to this
[01:37.47] I don’t know how to
[01:39.34] Say no to this Say no to this
[01:40.38] In my mind, I’m tryin’ to go
[01:42.34] Go! Go! Go!
[01:43.38] Then her mouth is on mine,
[01:44.84] and I don’t say…
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[01:46.18] [ENSEMBLE 1 – 1/3/4/5]
[01:46.39] No! [ENSEMBLE 2 – 6/7/8]
[01:47.11] No!
[01:47.73] Say no to this! Say no to this!
[01:49.09] No!
[01:50.02] No!
[01:50.74] Say no to this! Say no to this!
[01:51.99] No!
[01:52.92] No!
[01:53.65] Say no to this! Say no to this!
[01:55.00] No!
[01:55.94] No!
[01:56.56] Say no to this! Say no to this!
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[01:58.12] [HAMILTON – 2]
[01:59.22] I wish I could say that was the last time
[02:01.52] I said that last time. It became a pastime
[02:04.55] A month into this endeavor I received a letter
[02:07.58] From a Mr. James Reynolds, even better, it said:
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[02:10.28] [JAMES REYNOLDS – 4]
[02:10.69] Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health
[02:13.17] And in a prosperous enough position to put wealth
[02:16.17] In the pockets of people like me: down on their luck
[02:18.86] You see, that was my wife who you decided to
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[02:21.56] [HAMILTON – 2]
[02:21.77] Fuuuu—
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[02:22.30] [JAMES – 4]
[02:22.50] Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold
[02:25.11] So time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled
[02:28.02] And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife
[02:30.32] If the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife
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[02:33.45] [HAMILTON – 2]
[02:33.66] I hid the letter and I raced to her place
[02:35.93] Screamed “How could you?!” in her face
[02:37.39] She said: [MARIA – ALL WOMEN]
[02:38.23] No, sir!
[02:39.79] Half dressed, apologetic.
[02:41.26] A mess, she looked
[02:41.99] Pathetic, she cried:
[02:43.34] Please don’t go, sir!
[02:45.52] So was your whole story a setup?
[02:46.87] I don’t know about any letter!
[02:48.34] Stop crying
[02:48.96] Goddamnit, get up!
[02:50.10] I didn’t know any better
[02:51.24] I am ruined…
[02:52.38] Please don’t leave me with him
[02:53.32] I am helpless—how could I do this? Helpless
[02:55.62] Just give him what he wants
[02:56.45] and you can have me
[02:58.01] I don’t want you
[02:58.74] I don’t want you Whatever you want,
[03:00.10] I don’t… If you pay
[03:01.25] You can stay
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[03:03.12] [HAMILTON – 2] [MARIA – ALL WOMEN]
[03:03.43] Lord, show me how to [ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[03:04.58] Say no to this Say no to this!
[03:06.79] I don’t know how to Tonight
[03:08.56] Say no to this Say no to this!
[03:09.59] But the situation’s helpless
[03:11.80] Helpless
[03:12.47] And her body’s screaming,
[03:13.72] “Hell, yes”
[03:14.77] Whoa!
[03:15.60] No, show me how to
[03:16.95] Say no to this Say no to this!
[03:18.30] How can I How can you
[03:19.75] Say no to this? Say no to this? Say no to this!
[03:21.09] There is nowhere I can go
[03:22.95] Go! Go! Go!
[03:24.10] When her body’s on mine
[03:25.67] I do not say…
[03:27.13] No!
[03:27.95] Yes
[03:28.88] Yes! Say no to this!
[03:29.71] No!
[03:30.95] Yes
[03:32.22] Yes! Say no to this!
[03:33.05] No!
[03:33.77] Yes
[03:34.51] Yes! Say no to this!
[03:35.44] No!
[03:36.77] Yes
[03:37.49] Yes! Say no to this!
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[03:39.16] [HAMILTON – 2]
[03:40.21] Say no to this… [MARIA – ALL WOMEN]
[03:41.87] I don’t say no to this Don’t say no to this
[03:45.10] There is nowhere I can go.
[03:46.46] [ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[03:46.88] [JAMES – 4] Go go go…
[03:48.35] So?
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[03:50.74] [HAMILTON – 2]
[03:51.98] Nobody needs to know
