All Hamilton Songs

The Election of 1800

[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!

Smile more!

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

Shake hands with him!

Charm her!

It's eighteen hundred, ladies, tell your husbands: vote for
Burr!
[ENSEMBLE]
Burr!

Burr!

Burr!

Burr!

Burr!

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?

We know it's lose-lose
Jefferson or Burr?