If you have not noticed that it is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s world and we are just livin’ in it, then you must be living under a rock that Broadway musical hits cannot penetrate and I do understand that such places exist. The rest of us, though, have noticed that since writing the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” Lin-Manuel Miranda seems to be unstoppably EVERYWHERE.
For example, on Monday he was at the “Stronger Together” fundraiser for Hillary Clinton held at St. James Theatre in NYC where he and Renee Elise Goldsberry, his Tony Award-winning co-star from when he was playing the role of Hamilton, performed a modified version of the song “The World Was Wide Enough.”
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The lyrics were changed so that instead of the “ten things you need to know” in the original, there are “ten things you need to do” leading up to November 8th with it all culminating in “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 9 number 10 paces VOTE!”
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(Nerd note: a bunch of sites are naming “Ten Duel Commandments” as the song from “Hamilton” that Lin-Manuel Miranda modified the lyrics to, but NOPE; it’s actually “The World Was Wide Enough.” The music for the songs sounds the same, but the lyrics are not the same and the lyrics for the pro-Hillary ditty follow the structure of “The World Was Wide Enough.” Yes, I’m a nerd who owns the soundtrack.)
In case you didn’t catch all the lyrics, here you go:
Here are the lyrics to @Lin_Manuel & @reneeelisegolds' new version of "Ten Duel Commandments" for a Hillary Clinton fundraiser tonight pic.twitter.com/N1PZrlP5da
— Monica Alba (@albamonica) October 18, 2016
I have to say that I am particularly tickled by “Tim Kaine in the membrane, Time Kaine in the brain.”
If you have the right to vote, pretty please use it. Even if you think your voice doesn’t matter because you live in a state where the result for the presidential candidate is a foregone conclusion, remember that there will be other races and measures on the ballot that will affect your day-to-day life directly.
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