The Election of 1800 - Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom, Jr.

The election of 1800

Can we get back to politics?

Please?

Yo.

Ev’ry action has its 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

Aaron Burr!

With his own faction

He’s very attractive in the North

New Yorkers like his chances

He’s not very forthcoming on any particular stances

Ask him a question: it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances

And they say I’m a Francophile: at least they know I know where France is!

Thomas that’s the problem, see, they see Burr as a less extreme you

Ha!

You need to change course, a key endorsement might redeem you

Who did you have in mind?

Don’t laugh

Who is it?

You used to work on the same staff

Whaaaat

It might be nice, it might be nice

To get Hamilton on your side

It might be nice, it might be nice

To get Hamilton on your side

Talk less!

(Burr!)

Smile more!

(Burr!)

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!

(Burr!)

I don’t like Adams

Well, he’s gonna lose, that’s just defeatist

And Jefferson

In love with France!

Yeah, he’s so elitist!

I like that Aaron Burr!

I can’t believe we’re here with him!

He seems approachable???

Like you could grab a beer with him!

Dear Mr. Hamilton: your fellow Fed’ralists would like to know how you’ll be

voting

It’s quiet uptown

Dear Mr. Hamilton: John Adams doesn’t stand a chance, so who are you promoting?

It’s quiet uptown

Jefferson or Burr?

(Jefferson or Burr?)

We know it’s lose-lose (We know it’s lose-lose)

Jefferson or Burr?

(Jefferson or Burr?)

But if you had to choose (But if you had to choose)

Dear Mr. Hamilton: (Jefferson or Burr?)

John Adams doesn’t stand a chance (We know it’s lose-lose)

So who are you promoting?

(Jefferson or Burr?)

But if you had to choose (But if you had to choose)

Well, if it isn’t Aaron Burr.

Sir!

Alexander!

You’ve created quite a stir, sir!

I’m going door to door!

You’re openly campaigning?

Sure!

That’s new

Honestly, it’s kind of draining

Burr

Sir!

Is there anything you wouldn’t do?

No, I’m chasing what I want

And you know what?

What?

I learned that from you

If you had to choose

If you had to choose

It’s a tie!

If you had to choose

If you had to choose

It’s up to the delegates!

If you had to choose

If you had to choose

It’s up to Hamilton!

If you had to choose

If you had to choose (Jefferson or Burr?)

If you had to (Jefferson or Burr?)

Choose (Choose)

Choose (Choose)

Choose (Choose)

Yo

Oh!

The people are asking to hear my voice

Oh!

For the country is facing a difficult choice

Oh!

And if you were to ask me who I’d promote

Oh!

Jefferson has my vote

Oh!

I have never agreed with Jefferson once

Oh!

We have fought on like seventy-five diff’rent fronts

Oh!

But when all is said and all is done

Jefferson has beliefs, Burr has none

Oooooooooooooh

Well, I’ll be damned

Well, I’ll be damned

Hamilton’s on your side

Well, I’ll be damned

Well, I’ll be damned

And?

You won in a landslide

Congrats on a race well-run

I did give you a fight

Uh-huh

I look forward to our partnership

Our partnership?

As your vice-President

Ha.

Yeah, right

You hear this guy?

Man openly campaigns against me, talkin' bout, «I look forward to our partnership.»

It’s crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be Vice President

Yeah, you know what?

We can change that.

You know why?

Why?

'Cause I’m the President

Burr, when you see Hamilton, thank him for the endorsement