[Intro]
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Seventeen. Se- se- seventeen...
Se- se- seventeen…
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Seventeen eighty-nine
[Verse 1]
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How does the bastard orphan
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Immigrant decorated war vet
Unite the colonies through more debt?
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Fight the other founding fathers til he has to forfeit?
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Have it all, lose it all
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You ready for more yet?
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Treasury Secretary. Washington’s the President
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Ev’ry American experiment sets a precedent
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Not so fast. Someone came along to resist him
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Pissed him off until we had a two-party system
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You haven’t met him yet, you haven’t had the chance
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‘cause he’s been kickin’ ass as the ambassador to France
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But someone’s gotta keep the American promise
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You simply must meet Thomas. Thomas!
[Intermission]
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Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!
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Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!
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Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!
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Thomas Jefferson’s coming home!
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Thomas Jefferson’s coming home Lord
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He’s been off in Paris for so long!
[Verse 2]
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France is following us to revolution
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There is no more status quo
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But the sun comes up and the world still spins
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I helped Lafayette draft a declaration
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Then I said, ‘I gotta go
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I gotta be in Monticello.’ Now the work at
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Home begins…
[Chorus 1]
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So what’d I miss?
What’d I miss?
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Virginia, my home sweet home, I wanna give you a kiss
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I’ve been in Paris meeting lots of different ladies...
F6 G7
I guess I basic’lly missed the late eighties...
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I traveled the wide, wide world and came back to this…
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There’s a letter on my desk from the President
Haven’t even put my bags down yet
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Sally be a lamb, darlin’, won’tcha open it?
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It says the President’s assembling a cabinet
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And that I am to be the Secretary of State, great!
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And that I’m already Senate-approved...
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I just got home and now I’m headed up to New York
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Headin’ to New York!
Headin’ to New York!
[Chorus 2]
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Lookin’ at the rolling fields ENSEMBLE:
I can’t believe that we are free Believe that we are free
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Ready to face
Whatever’s awaiting
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Me in N.Y.C. Me in N.Y.C.
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But who’s waitin’ for me when I step in the place?
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My friend James Madison, red in the face
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He grabs my arm and
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I respond
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“What’s go----in’ on?”
[Verse 3]
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Thomas, we are engaged in a battle for our nation’s very soul
Gm C
Can you get us out of the mess we’re in?
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Hamilton’s new financial plan is nothing less
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Than government control
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I’ve been fighting for the South alone
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Where have you been?
N.C.
Uh...France.
We have to win
[Chorus 3]
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What’d I miss?
Wha? Wha? What’d I miss?
D7
What’d I miss?
I’ve come home to this?
G7
Headfirst into a political abyss!
D7
Headfirst, into the abyss!
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I have my first cabinet meeting today
Chik-a-pow!
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I guess I better think of something to say
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I’m already on my way
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Let’s get to the bottom of this…
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What did I miss? Ahhh ah!
[Outro]
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Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
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Mr. Jefferson? Alexander Hamilton
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Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
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Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
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Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
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Sir, you’ve been off in Paris for so long!
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So what did I miss?
