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John Adams:
Dear God! For one solid year, they have been sitting here! A whole year, doing nothing! [singing] John Adams:
I do believe you've laid a curse on North America / A curse that we here now rehearse in Philadelphia! / A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake I'd accept with some despair / But no, you sent us Congress. / Good God, sir, was that fair? / You see, we piddle, twiddle, and resolve, not one damn thing do we solve / Piddle, twiddle, and resolve / Nothing's ever solved / In foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia!
Dear God! For one solid year, they have been sitting here! A whole year, doing nothing! [singing] John Adams:
I do believe you've laid a curse on North America / A curse that we here now rehearse in Philadelphia! / A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake I'd accept with some despair / But no, you sent us Congress. / Good God, sir, was that fair? / You see, we piddle, twiddle, and resolve, not one damn thing do we solve / Piddle, twiddle, and resolve / Nothing's ever solved / In foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia!
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Dear god
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For one solid year they have been sitting here A whole year
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Doing nothing
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I do believe you've laid a curse on north America
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a curse that we here now rehearse in Philadelphia
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a second flood a simple famine
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plagues of locusts everywhere
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or a cataclysmic earthquake
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I'd accept with some despair
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but no you've sent us congress
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good god sir was that fair
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I say this with humility in Philadelphia
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Movie Summary
A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.
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John Adams
