BURR
There’s nothing like summer in the city.
Someone under stress meets someone
looking pretty.
There’s trouble in the air, you can smell it.
and Alexander’s by himself. I’ll let him tell it.
HAMILTON
I hadn’t slept in a week.
I was weak, I was awake.
You never seen a bastard orphan
more in need of a break.
Longing for Angelica.
Missing my wife.
That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into
my life, she said:
MARIA REYNOLDS
I know you are a man of honor,
I’m so sorry to bother you at home
but I don’t know where to go, and I came here
all alone...
HAMILTON
She said:
MARIA
My husband’s doin’ me wrong
beatin’ me, cheatin’ me, mistreatin’ me...
Suddenly he’s up and gone.
I don’t have the means to go on.
HAMILTON
So I offered her a loan, I offered to walk her
home, she said
MARIA
You’re too kind, sir.
HAMILTON
I gave her thirty bucks that I had socked away,
she lived a block away, she said:
MARIA
This one’s mine, sir.
HAMILTON
Then I said, “well, I should head back home,”
she turned red, she led me to her bed, let her
legs spread and said:
MARIA
Stay?
HAMILTON
Hey...
MARIA
Hey...
HAMILTON
That’s when I began to pray:
Lord, show me how to
say no to this.
I don’t know how to
say no to this.
HAMILTON
But my God, she looks so helpless
And her body’s saying, “hell, yes”
MARIA
Whoa…
HAMILTON
Nooo, show me how to
HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE
Say no to this.
HAMILTON
I don’t know how to
HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE
Say no to this.
HAMILTON
In my mind, I’m tryin’ to go
ENSEMBLE
Go! Go! Go!
HAMILTON
Then her mouth is on mine, and I don’t say...
ENSEMBLE
No! No!
Say no to this!
No! No!
Say no to this!
No! No!
Say no to this!
No! No!
Say no to this!
HAMILTON
I wish I could say that was the last time.
I said that last time. It became a pastime.
A month into this endeavor I received a letter
from a Mr. James Reynolds, even better, it
said:
JAMES REYNOLDS
Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good
health,
and in a prosperous enough position to put
wealth
in the pockets of people like me: down on
their luck.
You see, that was my wife who you decided to
HAMILTON
Fuuuu—
JAMES REYNOLDS
Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold,
so time to pay the piper for the pants you
unbuckled.
And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife
if the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife.
HAMILTON
I hid the letter and I raced to her place,
screamed “How could you?!” in her face,
she said:
MARIA
No, sir!
HAMILTON
Half dressed, apologetic. A mess, she looked
pathetic, she cried:
MARIA
Please don’t go, sir!
HAMILTON
So was your whole story a setup?
MARIA
I don’t know about any letter!
HAMILTON
Stop crying Goddamnit, get up!
MARIA
I didn’t know any better
HAMILTON
I am ruined...
MARIA HAMILTON
Please don’t leave me
with him helpless.
I am
helpless—how could I
do this?
Just give him what
he wants and you can
have me. I don’t want you
Whatever you want, I don’t want you
MARIA HAMILTON
If you pay, I don’t…
You can stay.
Lord, show
me how to ENSEMBLE
say no to this. Say no to this!
Tonight
I don’t know
how to
say no to this. Say no to this!
Cuz the
situation’s
helpless.
Helpless.
And her
body’s
screaming,
“Hell, yes”
Whoa!
No, show me
how to
say no to this. Say no to this!
How can I
How can you
say no to
this?
Say no to
this? Say no to this!
There is
nowhere I
can go.
When her
body’s on
mine Go! Go! Go!
I do not say...
No!
No!
HAMILTON ENSEMBLE
Yes. MARIA Say no to this!
Yes!
Yes.
No!
No!
Yes!
Say no to this!
Yes. Yes! No!
No!
Say no to this!
Yes. Yes!
No!
No!
Say no to this!
HAMILTON
Say no to this. MARIA
I don’t say no to this, Don’t say no to this.
there is nowhere I
can go. ENSEMBLE
Go go go…
JAMES REYNOLDS
So?
HAMILTON
Nobody needs to know.
