Hamilton: El Musical

Take A Break

ELIZA & PHILIP
Un deux trois quatre
Cinq six sept huit neuf
(Un deux trois quatre)
Cinq six sept huit neuf
Good! Un deux trois quatre
Cinq six sept huit neuf 
(Un deux trois quatre)
Cinq six sept huit neuf
Sept huit neuf—
Sept huit neuf—
Sept huit neuf—
Sept huit neuf—

ELIZA & PHILIP
One two three four five six seven eight nine!

HAMILTON
My dearest, Angelica
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”
I trust you’ll understand the reference to
Another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play
They think me Macbeth, and ambition is my folly
I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain
Madison is Banquo, Jefferson’s Macduff
And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane

HAMILTON & ANGELICA
And there you are, an ocean away
Do you have to live an ocean away?
Thoughts of you subside
Then I get another letter
I cannot put the notion away…

ELIZA
Take a break

HAMILTON
I am on my way

ELIZA
There’s a little surprise before supper
And it cannot wait

HAMILTON
I’ll be there in just a minute, save my plate

ELIZA
Alexander—

[HAMILTON]
Okay, okay—

ELIZA
Your son is nine years old today
And he has something that he’d like to say
He’s been practicing all day
Philip, take it away—

PHILIP & HAMILTON
Daddy, daddy, look—
My name is Philip
I am a poet
I wrote this poem just
To show it
And I just turned nine
You can write rhymes
But you can’t write mine
What!
I practice French
And play piano with my mother 
(Uh-huh!)
I have a sister
But I want a little brother 
(Okay!)
My daddy’s trying to start America’s bank
Un deux trois quatre cinq! 
(Bravo!)

ELIZA
Take a break

HAMILTON
Hey, our kid is pretty great

ELIZA
Run away with us for the summer
Let’s go upstate

HAMILTON
Eliza, I’ve got so much on my plate

ELIZA
We can all go stay with my father
There’s a lake I know…

HAMILTON
I know

ELIZA
In a nearby park

HAMILTON
I’d love to go