One Last Time

One Last Time - Christopher Jackson/Lin-Manuel Miranda/Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

Lyrics by：Lin-Manuel Miranda

Composed by：Lin-Manuel Miranda

Mr President you asked to see me

I know you're busy

What do you need Sir Sir

I wanna give you a word of warning

Sir I don't know what you heard

But whatever it is Jefferson started it

Thomas Jefferson resigned this morning

You're kidding

I need a favor

Whatever you say Sir

Jefferson will pay for his behavior

Shh talk less

I'll use the press

I'll write under a pseudonym

You'll see what I can do to him

I need you to draft an address

Yes he resigned you can finally speak your mind

No he's stepping down so he can run for President

Ha good luck defeating you Sir

I'm stepping down I'm not running for President

I'm sorry what

One last time

Relax have a drink with me

One last time

Let's take a break tonight

And then we'll teach them how to say goodbye

To say goodbye

You and I

No Sir why

I wanna talk about neutrality

Sir with britain and france on the verge of war

Is this the best time

I want to warn against partisan fighting

But

Pick up a pen start writing

I wanna talk about what I have learned

The hard-won wisdom I have earned

As far as the people are concerned

You have to serve you could continue to serve

No one last time

The people will hear from me

One last time

And if we get this right

We're gonna teach 'em how to say

Goodbye

You and I

Mr President they will say you're weak

No they will see we're strong

Your position is so unique

So I'll use it to move them along

Why do you have to say goodbye

If I say goodbye the nation learns to move on

It outlives me when I'm gone

Like the scripture says

Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree

And no one shall make them afraid

They'll be safe in the nation we've made

I wanna sit under my own vine and fig tree

A moment alone in the shade

At home in this nation we've made

One last time

One last time

Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration

I am unconscious of intentional error

I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects

Not to think it probable that

I may have committed many errors

I shall also carry with me

The hope

That my country will

View them with indulgence

And that

After forty-five years of my life dedicated to

It's service with an upright zeal

The faults of incompetent abilities will be

Consigned to oblivion as

I myself must soon be to the mansions of rest

I anticipate with pleasing

Expectation that retreat in which I

Promise myself to realize

The sweet enjoyment of partaking

In the midst of my fellow-citizens

The benign influence of good laws

Under a free government the ever-favorite

Object of my heart and the happy reward

As I trust

Of our mutual cares labors and dangers

One last time

George Washington's going home

Teach 'em how to say goodbye

George Washington's going home

You and I

George Washington's going home

Going home

George Washington's going home

History has its eyes on you

George Washington's going home

We're gonna teach 'em how to

Say goodbye teach 'em how to say goodbye

Teach 'em how to say goodbye

Say goodbye say goodbye

To say goodbye say goodbye

One last time one last time