Hamilton Lyrics

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 better

HAMILTON: I am ruined...

MARIA: Please don't leave me with him helpless

HAMILTON: I am helpless—how could I do this?

MARIA: Just give him what he wants and you can have me

HAMILTON: I don't want you

MARIA: Whatever you want

HAMILTON: 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 you How can I Say no to this? Say no to this? Say no to this! . There is nowhere I can go . Go! Go! Go! . When her body's on mine . I do not say... HAMILTON: Yes

MARIA: ENSEMBLE:

Yes! Say no to this! No!

HAMILTON: Yes

MARIA: Yes! Say no to this! No!

HAMILTON: Yes

MARIA: Yes! Say no to this! No!

HAMILTON: Yes

MARIA: Yes! Say no to this!

HAMILTON: Say no to this...

MARIA: Don't say no to this

HAMILTON: I don't say no to this There is nowhere I can go.

ENSEMBLE: Go go go...

JAMES: So?

HAMILTON: Nobody needs to know