The Election of 1800 lyrics

[FULL COMPANY]

The election of 1800

[JEFFERSON]

Can we get back to politics?

[MADISON]

Please?

[JEFFERSON]

Yo. Ev’ry action has an equal, opposite reaction

John Adams shat the bed. I love the guy, but he’s in traction

Poor Alexander Hamilton? He is missing in action

So now I’m facing—

[JEFFERSON AND MADISON]

Aaron Burr!

[JEFFERSON]

With his own faction

[MADISON]

He’s very attractive in the North. New Yorkers like his chances

[JEFFERSON]

He’s not very forthcoming on any particular stances

[MADISON]

Ask him a question: it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances

[JEFFERSON]

And they say I’m a Francophile: at least they know I know where France is!

[MADISON]

Thomas that’s the problem, see, they see Burr as a less extreme you

[JEFFERSON]

Ha!

[MADISON]

You need to change course, a key endorsement might redeem you

[JEFFERSON]

Who did you have in mind?

[MADISON]

Don’t laugh

[JEFFERSON]

Who is it?

[MADISON]

You used to work on the same staff

[JEFFERSON]

Whaaaat

[MADISON]

It might be nice, it might be nice

To get Hamilton on your side

[JEFFERSON AND MADISON]

It might be nice, it might be nice

To get Hamilton on your side

[BURR]

Talk less!

[ENSEMBLE]

Burr!

[BURR]

Smile more!

[ENSEMBLE]

Burr!

[BURR]

Don’t let ‘em know what you’re against or what you’re for!

[ENSEMBLE]

Burr!

[BURR]

Shake hands with him!

[ENSEMBLE]

Burr!

[BURR]

Charm her!

[ENSEMBLE]

Burr!

[BURR]

It’s eighteen hundred, ladies, tell your husbands: vote for

[BURR AND ENSEMBLE]

Burr!

[MALE VOTER]

I don’t like Adams

[FEMALE VOTER]

Well, he’s gonna lose, that’s just defeatist

[ANOTHER MALE VOTER]

And Jefferson—

[TWO MEN]

In love with France!

[ANOTHER FEMALE VOTER]

Yeah, he’s so elitist!

[TWO WOMEN]

I like that Aaron Burr!

[A WOMAN]

I can’t believe we’re here with him!

[A MAN]

He seems approachable…?

[ANOTHER MALE VOTER]

Like you could grab a beer with him!

[ENSEMBLE]

Dear Mr. Hamilton: your fellow Fed’ralists would like to know how you’ll be voting

[HAMILTON]

It’s quiet uptown

[ENSEMBLE]

Dear Mr. Hamilton: John Adams doesn’t stand a chance, so who are you promoting?

[HAMILTON]

It’s quiet uptown

[MEN]

Jefferson or Burr?

[WOMEN]

Jefferson or Burr?

[ENSEMBLE]

We know it’s lose-lose

[MEN]

Jefferson or Burr?

[WOMEN]

Jefferson or Burr?

[ENSEMBLE]

But if you had to choose

[ENSEMBLE]

Dear Mr. Hamilton

John Adams doesn’t stand a chance so who are you promoting?

But if you had to choose

[HAMILTON]

Well, if it isn’t Aaron Burr. Sir!

[BURR]

Alexander!

[HAMILTON]

You’ve created quite a stir, sir!

[BURR]

I’m going door to door!

[HAMILTON]

You’re openly campaigning?

[BURR]

Sure!

[HAMILTON]

That’s new

[BURR]

Honestly, it’s kind of draining

[HAMILTON]

Burr—

[BURR]

Sir!

[HAMILTON]

Is there anything you wouldn’t do?

[BURR]

No. I’m chasing what I want

And you know what?

[HAMILTON]

What?

[BURR]

I learned that from you

[ENSEMBLE]

If you had to choose

If you had to choose

[MADISON]

It’s a tie!

[ENSEMBLE]

If you had to choose

If you had to choose

[JEFFERSON]

It’s up to the delegates!

[ENSEMBLE]

If you had to choose

If you had to choose

[JEFFERSON/MADISON]

It’s up to Hamilton!

[ENSEMBLE]

If you had to choose

Jefferson or Burr?

Jefferson or Burr?

Choose

Choose

Choose!

[HAMILTON]

Yo

[ENSEMBLE]

Oh!

[HAMILTON]

The people are asking to hear my voice

[ENSEMBLE]

Oh!

[HAMILTON]

For the country is facing a difficult choice

[ENSEMBLE]

Oh!

[HAMILTON]

And if you were to ask me who I’d promote—

[ENSEMBLE]

Oh!

[HAMILTON]

—Jefferson has my vote

[JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE]

Oh!

[HAMILTON]

I have never agreed with Jefferson once

[JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE]

Oh!

[HAMILTON]

We have fought on like seventy-five different fronts

[JEFFERSON/MADISON/ENSEMBLE]

Oh!

[HAMILTON]

But when all is said and all is done

Jefferson has beliefs. Burr has none

[ENSEMBLE]

Oooooooooooooh

[MADISON AND JEFFERSON]

Well, I’ll be damned

Well, I’ll be damned

[MADISON]

Hamilton’s on your side

[ENSEMBLE]

Well, I’ll be damned

Well, I’ll be damned

[JEFFERSON]

And?

[MADISON]

You won in a landslide

[BURR]

Congrats on a race well-run

I did give you a fight

[JEFFERSON]

Uh-huh

[BURR]

I look forward to our partnership

[JEFFERSON]

Our partnership?

[BURR]

As your vice-President

[JEFFERSON]

Ha. Yeah, right

You hear this guy? Man openly campaigns against me, talkin’ bout, “I look forward to our partnership.”

[MADISON]

It’s crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be vice President

[JEFFERSON]

Yeah, you know what? We can change that. You know why?

[MADISON]

Why?

[JEFFERSON]

‘cuz I’m the President. Hey, Burr, when you see Hamilton, thank him for the endorsement

• Artist:Hamilton (Musical)
• Album:Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)