Hamilton: El Musical

Say NO To This

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
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

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
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
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 letter!

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 (ENSEMBLE)
If you pay 
I don’t…!
You can stay
Lord, show me how to say no to this
(Say no to this!)
Tonight
I don’t know how to
(Say no to this!)
Say no to this
'Cause the situation’s helpless 
(Helpless)
And her body’s screaming, “Hell, yes”
(Whoa!)
How can you
No, show me how to
(Say no to this!)
Say no to this!
Say no to this!
(Say no to this!)
How can I say no to this?
There is nowhere I can go 
(Go! Go! Go!)
When her body’s on mine I do not say…
(No!)

HAMILTON & MARIA (ENSEMBLE)
Yes,Yes!
(Say no to this!)
No!
Yes, Yes!
(Say no to this!)
No!
Yes, Yes!
(Say no to this)
No!
Yes, Yes!
(Say no to this! Say no to this…)
I don’t say no to this
(Don’t say no to this)
There is nowhere I can go.
(Go go go...)

JAMES REYNOLDS
So?

HAMILTON
Nobody needs to know...

Much@s le hecharan la culpa a María Reynolds, y probablemente la sigan juzgando por todo lo que dure su recuerdo...pero realmente ella fue víctima de las sircunstancias. Su esposo, que es cierto, la golpeaba. Cierto día James, después de un altercado, le dijo que se metiera con Alexander si quería cambiar su suerte, y este por mala fortuna accedio...
Entonces comenzó todo este lio! Siendo María, una mujer joven, prostituida y deshonrada por su marido.
Cuando todo el asunto salio a la luz, Burr le ayudo a separarce de su esposo, reinicio su vida y limpio su nombre.