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♪ Male Speaker: How does a
bastard, orphan, son of a ♪

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♪ whore and a Scotsman,
dropped in the middle of a ♪

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♪ The President: What an
incredible gift these folks ♪

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♪ have given to the United
States of America. ♪

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♪ It is rare where a piece
of art can remind us about ♪

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♪ what's best in ourselves. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: The ten-dollar
Founding Father without a ♪

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♪ father got a lot farther
by working a lot harder by ♪

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♪ being a lot smarter, by
being a self-starter, by ♪

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♪ fourteen, they placed him in
charge of a trading charter. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: And every day
while slaves were being ♪

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♪ slaughtered and carted
away across the waves, he ♪

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♪ struggled and
kept his guard up. ♪

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♪ Inside, he was longing for
something to be a part of. ♪

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♪ The brother was ready to
beg, steal, borrow, or barter. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Then a
hurricane came and ♪

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♪ devastation reigned. ♪

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♪ Our man saw his future drip,
dripping down the drain. ♪

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♪ Put a pencil to his temple,
connected it to his brain ♪

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♪ and he wrote his first
refrain, a testament ♪

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♪ to his pain. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Well, the word
got around, they said, ♪

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♪ "This kid is insane, man." ♪

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♪ Took up a collection just to
send him to the mainland. ♪

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♪ "Get your education, don't
forget from whence you came, ♪

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♪ and the world's
gonna know your name. ♪

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♪ What's your name, man?" ♪

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♪ Male Speaker:
Alexander Hamilton. ♪

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♪ My name is Alexander
Hamilton and there's a ♪

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♪ million things I haven't
done but just you wait, just ♪

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♪ you wait. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: When he was
ten his father split, full ♪

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♪ of it, debt-ridden. ♪

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♪ Two years later, see Alex
and his mother bed-ridden ♪

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♪ half-dead sittin' in their
own sick, the scent thick. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: And Alex
got better but his mother ♪

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♪ went quick. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Moved in
with a cousin, the cousin ♪

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♪ committed suicide. ♪

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♪ Left him with nothin' but
ruined pride, something ♪

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♪ new inside. ♪

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♪ A voice saying -- ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: "Alex,
you gotta fend for yourself." ♪

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♪ (speaking simultaneously) ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: You gotta
fend for yourself. ♪

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♪ He started retreatin' and
readin' every treatise on ♪

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♪ the shelf. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: There would
have been nothin' left to do ♪

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♪ for someone less astute. ♪

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♪ He woulda been dead or
destitute without a cent ♪

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♪ of restitution. ♪

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♪ Started workin', clerkin'
for his late mother's ♪

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♪ landlord, tradin' sugar cane
and rum and all the things ♪

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♪ he can't afford. ♪

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♪ Scammin' -- ♪

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♪ (speaking simultaneously) ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Scammin' ♪

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♪ Male Speaker -- for every
book he can get his hands on. ♪

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♪ Plannin' -- ♪

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♪ (speaking simultaneously) ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Plannin' ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: -- for the
future see him now as he ♪

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♪ stands on the bow of a ship
headed for a new land. ♪

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♪ In New York, you
can be a new man ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: In New
York, you can be a new man -- ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Just you wait. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: In New
York, you can be a new man- ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Just you wait. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: In New
York, you can be a new man -- ♪

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♪ Female Speakers:
In New York -- ♪

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♪ Male Speakers: New York -- ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Just you wait. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Alexander Hamilton -- ♪

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♪ Male Speaker:
Alexander Hamilton -- ♪

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♪ Multiple Speaker: We are
waiting in the wings for you ♪

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♪ -- waiting in the
wings for you. ♪

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♪ You could never back down. ♪

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♪ You never learned
to take your time. ♪

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♪ Oh, Alexander Hamilton --
Male Speaker: Alexander ♪

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♪ Hamilton - Multiple
Speakers: When America sings ♪

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♪ for you, will they
know what you overcame? ♪

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♪ Will they know you
rewrote the game? ♪

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♪ The world will never
be the same, oh. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: The ship is in
the harbor now, see if you ♪

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♪ can spot him. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Just you wait. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Another
immigrant comin' up from ♪

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♪ the bottom. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Just you wait. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: His enemies
destroyed his rep. ♪

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♪ America forgot him. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
We fought with him. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Me? ♪

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♪ I died for him. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Me? ♪

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♪ I trusted him. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Me? ♪

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♪ I loved him. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: And me? ♪

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♪ I'm the damn fool
that shot him. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: There's
a million things I haven't ♪

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♪ done but just you wait. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: What's
your name, man? ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Alexander Hamilton. ♪

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♪ (applause) ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: There's
nothing rich folks love more ♪

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♪ than going downtown and
slummin' it with the poor. ♪

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♪ They pull up in their
carriages and gawk at the ♪

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♪ students in the common,
just to watch them talk. ♪

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♪ Take Philip Schuyler,
the man is loaded. ♪

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♪ Uh-oh, but little does he
know that his daughters, ♪

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♪ Peggy, Angelica, Eliza sneak
into the city just to watch ♪

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♪ all the guys at -- ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Work, work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Angelica. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Work, work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Eliza. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: And Peggy. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Work, work. ♪

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♪ The Schuyler sisters. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Angelica. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Peggy. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Eliza. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Daddy said
to be home by sundown. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Daddy
doesn't need to know. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Daddy
said not to go downtown. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Like I
said, you're free to go. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: But-look
around, look around, the ♪

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♪ revolution's
happening in New York. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: New York. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Angelica. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: It's bad
enough daddy wants to go to war. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: People
shouting in the square. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: It's bad
enough there'll be violence ♪

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♪ on our shore. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: New
ideas in the air. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Look
around, look around -- ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Angelica,
remind me what we're ♪

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♪ looking for. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
She's lookin' for me. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Eliza, I'm
lookin' for a mind at work. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Work, work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: I'm lookin'
for a mind at work. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Work, work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: I'm lookin'
for a mind at work. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Work, work. ♪

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♪ Whoa, work. ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Woo, there's
nothin' like summer in ♪

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♪ the city. ♪

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♪ Someone in a rush next to
someone lookin' pretty. ♪

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♪ Excuse me, miss, I know it's
not funny but your perfume ♪

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♪ smells like your
daddy's got money. ♪

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♪ Why you slummin' in the city
in your fancy heels, you ♪

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♪ searchin for an urchin
who can give you ideals? ♪

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♪ Female Speaker:
Burr, you disgust me ♪

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♪ Male Speaker: Ah, so
you've discussed me. ♪

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♪ I'm a trust fund,
baby, you can trust me. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: I've been
reading Common Sense by ♪

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♪ Thomas Paine. ♪

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♪ So, men say that I'm
intense or I'm insane. ♪

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♪ You want a revolution? ♪

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♪ I want a revelation. ♪

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♪ So, listen to
my declaration. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: "We
hold these truths to be ♪

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♪ self-evident that all
men are created equal." ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: And when
I meet Thomas Jefferson. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Unh. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: I'm 'a
compel him to include women ♪

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♪ in the sequel. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Look around,
look around at how lucky we ♪

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♪ are to be alive right now. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: Look
around, look around at how ♪

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♪ lucky we are to be
alive right now. ♪

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♪ History is happening in
Manhattan and we just happen ♪

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♪ to be in the greatest
city in the world. ♪

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♪ In the greatest
city in the world. ♪

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♪ (speaking simultaneously) ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: 'Cuz I've
been reading Common Sense by ♪

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♪ Thomas Paine. ♪

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♪ So men say that I'm
intense or I'm insane. ♪

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♪ You want a revolution? ♪

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♪ I want a revelation. ♪

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♪ So listen to my declaration. ♪

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♪ (speaking simultaneously) ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers: We
hold these truths to be ♪

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♪ self-evident that all
men are created equal. ♪

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♪ Woo. ♪

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♪ Look around, look around. ♪

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♪ Look around, look around at
how lucky we are to be alive ♪

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♪ right now. ♪

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♪ History is happening in
Manhattan and we just happen ♪

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♪ Look around, look around at
how lucky we are to be alive ♪

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♪ to be in the greatest
city in the world. ♪

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♪ In the greatest city -- In
the greatest city in the world. ♪

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♪ Work, work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Angelica. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Work, work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: Eliza. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
Work, work. ♪

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♪ Female Speaker: And Peggy. ♪

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♪ Multiple Speakers:
The Schuyler sisters. ♪

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♪ Work, work. ♪

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♪ We're looking for
a mind at work. ♪

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♪ Work, work. ♪

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♪ Hey. ♪

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♪ Work, work. ♪

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♪ Hey. ♪

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♪ Work, work. ♪

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♪ Hey. ♪

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♪ Work, work. ♪

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♪ In the greatest
city in the world. ♪

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♪ (applause) ♪

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♪ The President: That's magic
and that's what these guys ♪

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♪ have done and that
is a great gift. ♪

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♪ Thank you so much everybody. ♪

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♪ We love you guys. ♪

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♪ Thank you. ♪

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♪ (applause) ♪