I love how when Martha goes "we dance!" Franklin's all, "Yeah, girl, I get you. I'm too much of a player not to," and Adams just goes, "but... but... who's playing the violin? It doesn't make sense! Helllp!"
Benjamin Franklin had three children. William, born around 1730, was his illegitimate son with an unknown woman. He was raised by Ben and his wife, Deborah. He remained loyal to the British crown and became royal governor of New Jersey.
I love when Franklin admits that he should have written the Declaration because at his age "there's little doubt that the pen is mightier then the sword"! O_O lol
Oh Ik. Like honestly Adams is that one sophisticated friend who everyone things is boring as hell. Then he whips out his gentleman moves and he becomes smooth asf.
You probably may not have noticed this the first time, but yeah, Blythe Danner, who's singing the role of Martha Jefferson in this film, is the Mom of Gwyneth Paltrow who plays Pepper Potts, and during filming Danner was actually five months pregnant with Paltrow. So there you go.
To make this connection even more interesting, of course, Gwyneth's dad/Blythe's husband was TV writer/producer Bruce Paltrow, who created "The White Shadow", that early 1980's drama about a former NBA player-turned-inner city high school basketball coach, who was played by none other than Thomas Jefferson himself, Ken Howard.
Fun Fact: As you know, Blythe Danner plays Martha Jefferson here. And in the movie “Jefferson in Paris,” her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow, played Martha’s daughter, Patsy. (Blythe Danner wasn’t in the movie though; Martha was already dead in the movie.) Just some cool trivia.
[MARTHA] He never speaks his passions He never speaks his views Whereas other men speak volumes The man I love is mute In truth, I can't recall Being wooed with words at all Even now He plays the violin He tucks it right under his chin And he bows, oh he bows For he knows, yes he knows That it's heigh, heigh, heigh, diddle diddle Twixt my heart, Tom and his fiddle My strings are unstrung Heigh, heigh, heigh, heigh I am undone I hear his violin And I get that feeling within And I sigh, oh I sigh He draws near, very near And it's heigh, heigh, heigh, diddle diddle And... goodbye to the fiddle! My strings are unstrung Heigh, heigh, heigh, heigh I'm always undone [MARTHA & ADAMS] Heigh, heigh, heigh, heigh [MARTHA] Heigh When Heaven calls to me Sing me no sad elegy Say I died Loving bride Loving wife Loving life For it was heigh, heigh, heigh diddle diddle Twixt my heart, Tom and his fiddle And ever 'twill be! Heigh, heigh, heigh, heigh Through eternity! [FRANKLIN] He plays the violin [ADAMS] He plays the violin [MARTHA] He plays the violin!
For those who argue Betty Buckley in this role; certainly she is a powerful Broadway-trained belter and I’m even somewhat surprised that Blythe could pull this off, her voice being rather low and almost (raspy?) ~ it is her sweetness and innocence that won her this role. I can’t imagine anyone else as “Maaartha!”
That explains why the movie version of the song is played at a lower key than the Broadway version. I like the low key version, it makes it sound more romantic.
Franklin: that settles it john, we're taking up the violin. Adams: Very well, You ahve us playing th violin. What happens next? Martha: Next Mr. Adams? Adams: Yes, what does Tom do next? Martha: Oh just what you'd expect. (John gets a sheepish look on his face) We dance
Because he's Thomas Jefferson. He's just such an intellectual (which includes him playing the violin) and he was a such a Renaissance man. HE WAS SUCH A COOL GUY. Plus he was tall and ginger. So... I know he's a bit lionized, but I don't care. TJ is the shit.
He was not a very good person after his wife died 4 months after his last child was born he had a affiar with his dead wife's half sister who was also his slave and had a child with his slave
I can't help but laugh at the innuendo and double entendre behind Franklin's saying "At my age, there's little doubt the 'pen' is mightier than the 'sword.'"
I saw this film on local television once and they *cut* this scene! Horrors! It's the best part of the film. What a great way to include a female in a script filled with male roles.
The moral of this story is that if the characters from 1776 were the Avengers, Franklin would be Tony Stark, Adams would be Captain America, and Jefferson would be Hawkeye. Lee gets to be Thor, obviously. Now who gets to be the Hulk...
You know, what's funny? I've watched it exactly in the eighth grade. Why is it funny? Because I'm not from the USA, it's not my country's history. We learned it in the seventh grade for a few lessons. And yes, I know that you don't care. But... for me it doesn't matter.
@@armenianrussian I got you. Even though I’m from the US, I hate US history. I only watch this movie because I love the music and I love how the characters interact with one another.
@@CliffRichardFan2001 do you hate US history because you are not interested or because of all of shit the USA did in the past? Because, if the second is true, then, yeah, me too.
@@armenianrussian i’d say both reasons. I feel like in US history we learn the same things over and over and over again. Although global history is much more interesting in my opinion. But to me, it’s everything we’ve done and also the fact that year after year after year we keep learning the same things.
@@CliffRichardFan2001I’m kinda sorry but I really can’t imagine what are you talking about. Like, I know that US history is a lot smaller then, let’s say, Russian, but, like… doesn’t it mean that you just need to go a little bit deeper into the context?
I JUST LOOKED UP WHO PLAYS JOHN ADAMS IN THIS MOVIE, AND IT'S MR. FEENY!! OMG I AM FREAKING OUT!!! 😲😲😲 (I have not seen this movie before, so I googled the cast out of curiosity.)
If you think this was good, listen to the original Broadway 1776's Martha, Betty Buckley. Love Blythe as an actress, but she just doesn't have the pipes Betty has.
I disagree. This version is much more creamy and sweet, makes it sound more like a love song. Will give props to Buckley for that volume and power, though.
I listened to this song so many times to rehearse because I played Martha Jefferson in my high school’s rendition of 1776. It was hecking glorious. Still can’t hit those high notes because I’m a HARDCORE Alto now, but this was really really fun. Though I did research Martha Jefferson and honestly her backstory is really sad. Ya’ll should look up her wiki page though, it’s fascinating. Edit: (for the 2nd time) To all you ladies who have a crush on TJ. My husband isn’t what he appears to be. Love THIS version of him if you will, but go anywhere after Martha dies and he’s kinda a dick. Just saying.
well John Adams is never really accepted by anyone but Jefferson and Franklin because John is obnoxious and disliked, did you know that?. Captain America is accepted by just about everyone. John Adams is the Hulk. And Martha Jefferson is Black Widow. Or is that supposed to be Abigail Adams?. The real question is: Who gets to be Captain America?
Unlikely. I doubt he's ever done a musical, at least since he was a kid. But I've done this solo and seen it done by a couple of my 1st section peers in the pit. No big deal.
@@Cyberlucy As compared to what exactly? Blythe Danner's version is terrible. No voice. Insipid interpretation. It's embarrassing. Listen to Betty Buckley in the stage version. Enchanting.
... and “enthusiasm” all the way around...(I haven’t seen it in long time.) While doling out well-deserved praise, it is now known from the release of “She Said” that it was Gwyneth Paltrow (Blythe’s daughter) who was foremost in bringing down Harvey Weinstein. Her then boyfriend Brad Pitt “visited” the demon 🐷 with his own well established cache of Hollywood power and it was because she was willing to really put her career on the line to bring IT down that other women ~multitudinous (who had been interviewed before and then nothing had come of their interviews) along with the higher echelons of the NY Times backing the two investigative reporters, to speak openly about their experiences. I like especially the Paris Match cover of Marion Cotillard going -literally toe to toe with the evil pos in all his insane “glory”. ~See, what we can do together? (I think it’s supposed to be that way, gentlemen..)
If you can't see any African Americans in this musical; if you understand why the entire South was willing to walk away from independence over the ownership of slaves; then you understand why many African Americans don't celebrate July 4th as our day of freedom and the necessity of our own day of freedom... Juneteenth (6/19/1865) 2 and a half years AFTER Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Slaves in many southern states didn't even know they were free until General Granger told them because up until then it was illegal for slaves to read. So Happy Independence Day to Caucasian America!
without the declaration of independence we would not be were we are now. so you should thank those white cis straight men, African American, Asian American, doesn't matter we're all Americans here and we share this history. we shouldn't divide ourselves like done in the past
@@sarcastic4982 where we are today? That's something for YOUR privileged arse to be proud of. Just because you say it, doesn't make it fact. And when you thank Africans for your race's very existence, since Africa is the cradle of civilization, then I'll get right on my ouija board and thank them. Now go ahead and have the last word as mouth-breathing troglodytes like yourself live for.
@@Jeremiah_Gottwald What a privileged little biped whose fear and ignorance blinds it from simple history. I can't help it if you're butthurt from reading the truth about your country. I'm done with the battle of wits with witless.
This is a great movie with some great songs, but it doesn't work at all as a musical. You could cut almost every song out without messing up the story. This song for example was completely unnecessary, it's just that it's so damn catchy
yes this thomas jefferson fellow seems like an ideal guy except for the fact that he forcefully copulated with his wife's fourteen year old sister after she died : )
Hadn't heard that one before, though I know he raped some of his slaves. Thomas Jefferson is so fascinating because he's a contradiction- one of the most brilliant, eloquent champions for liberty who ever lived, and yet someone who in his personal life betrayed every principle he advocated. In a way, he can be seen as personifying the conflict between the idealized democracy that America aspires to be, and the corrupt state it so often is in practice.
I love how innocent John is, he's so adorable.
"But who's playing the violin!?"
"Oh, John, really."
I love how when Martha goes "we dance!" Franklin's all, "Yeah, girl, I get you. I'm too much of a player not to," and Adams just goes, "but... but... who's playing the violin? It doesn't make sense! Helllp!"
@@thevampirefrog06 "Not everyone is from Boston, John"
"John, you can dance!"
"They still do a few things in Boston, Franklin!"
"Dear Mr. Adams, I am taking my wife back to bed. Kindly go away.Your obedient T. Jefferson"😂
+khfan4life365 ....Incredible.
getting flashbacks to Hamiltons' Your Obedient Servant
Emma Gearhart
actually sam
"That settles it, John, we're taking up the violin." Love Franklin.
Adams:look Franklin he done it he has written it that's what he think.😂😂
I remember watching this in history class, and my teacher was silently mouthing the words to this song.
mine was singing
THAT'S where Pepper Potts comes from?????
that......explains a lot.....
I watched this in my history class too!
Me too! Good old days
I had to leave the class because I couldn't resist singing The Lees of Old Virginia
Franklin wasn't allowed to write the thing because they thought he'd slip in puns and jokes.
"Dammit Franklin, that's the fourth one this paragraph!"
why is that honestly so believable
If it was written today and Franklin would have been the writer he would totally use Never gonna give you up.
Holy why am I just seeing these replies now??
"At my age... the pen is mightier than the sword!" Of course, old Ben was quite the swordsman in his younger days!
69 likes. Hehehe.
Benjamin Franklin had three children. William, born around 1730, was his illegitimate son with an unknown woman. He was raised by Ben and his wife, Deborah. He remained loyal to the British crown and became royal governor of New Jersey.
@@andrewdavis9096 William, "The Little Bastard."
I love when Franklin admits that he should have written the Declaration because at his age "there's little doubt that the pen is mightier then the sword"! O_O lol
Olivia Cabrera *John*: *thinking* Gross.
I love how with Ben its all light hearted dancing and then with John its like "okay serious dancing time.....-whips out his skills-" :)
Oh Ik. Like honestly Adams is that one sophisticated friend who everyone things is boring as hell.
Then he whips out his gentleman moves and he becomes smooth asf.
Adams: Don't hesitate madam, don't hesitate.
Franklin: Yes; tell us, what else can that red headed tombstone do?
In the movie version Martha Jefferson was played by Blythe Danner. On Broadway she was played by Betty Buckley. Both were magnificent.
You probably may not have noticed this the first time, but yeah, Blythe Danner, who's singing the role of Martha Jefferson in this film, is the Mom of Gwyneth Paltrow who plays Pepper Potts, and during filming Danner was actually five months pregnant with Paltrow. So there you go.
And Gwyneth also played daughter Patsy in "Jefferson in Paris." (Nice touch!)
To make this connection even more interesting, of course, Gwyneth's dad/Blythe's husband was TV writer/producer Bruce Paltrow, who created "The White Shadow", that early 1980's drama about a former NBA player-turned-inner city high school basketball coach, who was played by none other than Thomas Jefferson himself, Ken Howard.
UnbeLEEvable
It’s pretty neat how Thomas Jefferson has a totally different personality in both 1776 and Hamilton.
I mean they took place decades apart, 1776 he had his wife and his violin and by the time he got back from France he had no wife and a broken wrist
Oh yeah you’re right! You know how he acts pretty arrogant and cocky in Hamilton? Perhaps that’s just his way of hiding how damaged he is :(
one is at least accurate for the most part
@@sarcastic4982 yeah 1776 Jefferson is far far more accurate then what Lin Manuel Miranda made him in Hamilton.
"1776" is a much more accurate portrayal. "Hamilton" makes him into a bombastic fop, which is the opposite of what he was like in real life.
Fun Fact:
As you know, Blythe Danner plays Martha Jefferson here. And in the movie “Jefferson in Paris,” her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow, played Martha’s daughter, Patsy. (Blythe Danner wasn’t in the movie though; Martha was already dead in the movie.) Just some cool trivia.
*insert violin bow innuendo here*
lol
I love the sexual undercurrent running through the entire song.
😂
"Not everyone's from Boston, John."
"We still do some things in Boston, Franklin!"
Give it back to him, Johnny!
[MARTHA]
He never speaks his passions
He never speaks his views
Whereas other men speak volumes
The man I love is mute
In truth, I can't recall
Being wooed with words at all
Even now
He plays the violin
He tucks it right under his chin
And he bows, oh he bows
For he knows, yes he knows
That it's heigh, heigh, heigh, diddle diddle
Twixt my heart, Tom and his fiddle
My strings are unstrung
Heigh, heigh, heigh, heigh
I am undone
I hear his violin
And I get that feeling within
And I sigh, oh I sigh
He draws near, very near
And it's heigh, heigh, heigh, diddle diddle
And... goodbye to the fiddle!
My strings are unstrung
Heigh, heigh, heigh, heigh
I'm always undone
[MARTHA & ADAMS]
Heigh, heigh, heigh, heigh
[MARTHA]
Heigh
When Heaven calls to me
Sing me no sad elegy
Say I died
Loving bride
Loving wife
Loving life
For it was heigh, heigh, heigh diddle diddle
Twixt my heart, Tom and his fiddle
And ever 'twill be!
Heigh, heigh, heigh, heigh
Through eternity!
[FRANKLIN]
He plays the violin
[ADAMS]
He plays the violin
[MARTHA]
He plays the violin!
It was a nice song. More use of the words high diddle diddle in a romantic song than I'm used to, but damn if lady Jefferson didn't sell it
They should have put Betty Buckley in this role since they were using the Broadway cast. The song is more than nice.
For those who argue Betty Buckley in this role; certainly she is a powerful Broadway-trained belter and I’m even somewhat surprised that Blythe could pull this off, her voice being rather low and almost (raspy?) ~ it is her sweetness and innocence that won her this role. I can’t imagine anyone else as “Maaartha!”
That explains why the movie version of the song is played at a lower key than the Broadway version. I like the low key version, it makes it sound more romantic.
Blythe's version, so much better than that of Buckley in my opinion. Loved the entire movie.
~SIGH - BEST 1776. INVOCATION. I PLAY IT SLWAYS. Get FIRED UP!!! Remember WHY WE ARE.
Every year my mom watches this I get this song stuck in my head for days on end.
You’re lucky, my mom hates this movie :(
Franklin: that settles it john, we're taking up the violin.
Adams: Very well, You ahve us playing th violin. What happens next?
Martha: Next Mr. Adams?
Adams: Yes, what does Tom do next?
Martha: Oh just what you'd expect. (John gets a sheepish look on his face) We dance
Because he's Thomas Jefferson. He's just such an intellectual (which includes him playing the violin) and he was a such a Renaissance man. HE WAS SUCH A COOL GUY.
Plus he was tall and ginger. So... I know he's a bit lionized, but I don't care. TJ is the shit.
Oh of course, before becoming a perfect bastard.
He was not a very good person after his wife died 4 months after his last child was born he had a affiar with his dead wife's half sister who was also his slave and had a child with his slave
@@lillyperson5988 Six children, in fact, with someone 30 years his junior
Her voice is beautiful.
I can't help but laugh at the innuendo and double entendre behind Franklin's saying "At my age, there's little doubt the 'pen' is mightier than the 'sword.'"
I loved when Adams asks if he's eaten, and Franklin replies, "Actually John I have a rendezvous. I'd invite you along but talking makes her nervous."
I saw this film on local television once and they *cut* this scene! Horrors! It's the best part of the film. What a great way to include a female in a script filled with male roles.
Wow.. I just got the "pen is mightier than the sword" joke. Ah, love this movie.
I have such a historical crush on Thomas Jefferson.
The moral of this story is that if the characters from 1776 were the Avengers, Franklin would be Tony Stark, Adams would be Captain America, and Jefferson would be Hawkeye. Lee gets to be Thor, obviously. Now who gets to be the Hulk...
ALSO LEE :D
AND ANT-MAN!
HERE A LEE! THERE A LEE! AND EVERYWHERE A LEE A LEE!
Hank Pym is John Hancock :3
I love this movie, especially this song.
I love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻
And I watched the musical 2 times and the movie 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Sherman Edwards was a good friend and a great composer. Godspeed Sherm.
lol ... if I could teach a history class, 1776 and hamilton are in the 'curriculum'
and les mis
and newsies
Eric Wade
and the civil war
yo actually in apush we watch 1776
In 5th grade I watched it
Best Adams ever, best Franklin ever. End of conversation.
Blythe Danner....MY VERY FIRST CRUSH !!!!!!
Mine, too!
"Play my g-string Tom, play it! Diddle, diddle, and unstring my strings! I'm undone Tom, I'm undone!" Lights cigarette.
@missingLink123 I'm 13 and my dad got me the DVD for a forth of July gift. IT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!
Whenever it happens, or has already happened, happy 25th birthday
they're doing this in a theatre in town. So can't wait for the show. :)
Yay! We're watching this movie in U.S. history again. The first ttime we watched it was in eighth grade.
You know, what's funny? I've watched it exactly in the eighth grade. Why is it funny? Because I'm not from the USA, it's not my country's history. We learned it in the seventh grade for a few lessons.
And yes, I know that you don't care. But... for me it doesn't matter.
@@armenianrussian I got you. Even though I’m from the US, I hate US history. I only watch this movie because I love the music and I love how the characters interact with one another.
@@CliffRichardFan2001 do you hate US history because you are not interested or because of all of shit the USA did in the past?
Because, if the second is true, then, yeah, me too.
@@armenianrussian i’d say both reasons. I feel like in US history we learn the same things over and over and over again. Although global history is much more interesting in my opinion. But to me, it’s everything we’ve done and also the fact that year after year after year we keep learning the same things.
@@CliffRichardFan2001I’m kinda sorry but I really can’t imagine what are you talking about. Like, I know that US history is a lot smaller then, let’s say, Russian, but, like… doesn’t it mean that you just need to go a little bit deeper into the context?
My friends and I still watch this movie.
I JUST LOOKED UP WHO PLAYS JOHN ADAMS IN THIS MOVIE, AND IT'S MR. FEENY!! OMG I AM FREAKING OUT!!! 😲😲😲
(I have not seen this movie before, so I googled the cast out of curiosity.)
Jes Lightning Feeny amongst many other iconic roles
High. High. High. High.
ok Ben, John you SAW him play the violin earlier in the movie when Martha first showed up!! do you suffer from short term memory loss?
I'm dead this song is literally about her getting turned on when he plays the violin lol
😂
my history teacher played this whole musical infront of 13 year olds who couldnt stop dying
" we still do a few things in Boston, Franklin."
people aren't noticing the sexual undertones here...
+Mebbwebb Who says?
Oh yes, they are!
Mebbwebb the people not noticing the innuendos are probably from Boston jk
I do
we just decide to ignore them lol
God, I want to be in this play.
I love this song! Love and American patriotism! Who can beat it!
Blythe was perfect for the role -- very delicate, like the original Martha, even in her singing. unlike Buckey who did it on stage who was a belter.
I'm not sure that I know much about US history, though i think that Mr. Jefferson may play violin.
my son plays violin
its wierd John and Ben SAW Tom with a violin but they don't know he plays the violin its wierd....
LEE. Lee can be Captain America!
Or maybe it's George Washington? Does he count if he never shows up on screen?
My friend and I sang this for weeks lol.
Innuendo to foreshadowing DEF great just great
Got the vinyl the other day,for 50 cents
Jefferson was validating Stevia way back when.
Ohhhh snap!
My history teacher fast forwarded through this part because he thought it was boring.
Your history teacher is a communist
I honestly agree with him,,
@@sarcastic4982 have you grown out of that phase yet? Have you come to realize how NOT BORING this is??????
Well it's official, John and Ben are both Dory
If you think this was good, listen to the original Broadway 1776's Martha, Betty Buckley. Love Blythe as an actress, but she just doesn't have the pipes Betty has.
I disagree. This version is much more creamy and sweet, makes it sound more like a love song. Will give props to Buckley for that volume and power, though.
I disagree. Buckley was too nasally imn my opinion.
I listened to this song so many times to rehearse because I played Martha Jefferson in my high school’s rendition of 1776. It was hecking glorious.
Still can’t hit those high notes because I’m a HARDCORE Alto now, but this was really really fun.
Though I did research Martha Jefferson and honestly her backstory is really sad. Ya’ll should look up her wiki page though, it’s fascinating.
Edit: (for the 2nd time) To all you ladies who have a crush on TJ. My husband isn’t what he appears to be. Love THIS version of him if you will, but go anywhere after Martha dies and he’s kinda a dick. Just saying.
well John Adams is never really accepted by anyone but Jefferson and Franklin because John is obnoxious and disliked, did you know that?. Captain America is accepted by just about everyone. John Adams is the Hulk. And Martha Jefferson is Black Widow. Or is that supposed to be Abigail Adams?. The real question is: Who gets to be Captain America?
George Washington, I guess. :P
Little Rose I feel like cap would be John Hancock. Or Caesar rhodney , both are highly respected and listened to throughout the musical.
Believe me, I know. That's why I said "Oh snap."
Martha really predicting the future when she didn't know it @ 4:12
"Tommy ffuuuccckkkssss"
- His Wife
Sexiest song, Ever. For all the right reasons. (Blythe Danner is Gwyneth Paltrow’s mother, if news to anyone)
lamagiduneinstant76 dang! They look very similar indeed!
Anyone know who played violin (be nice) for the soundtrack? Was it Itzhak Perlman?
Unlikely. I doubt he's ever done a musical, at least since he was a kid. But I've done this solo and seen it done by a couple of my 1st section peers in the pit. No big deal.
To Delena Obermaier:
Me too!
So much prettier than her daughter, Gwyneth Paltrow, IMO
@EyeLoveLiz16 in THIS context its a bedroom joke
Am I the only one kind of shipping Adams and Franklin in this song?
Emma Who's the actress that played Martha she has an awesome voice
Shayla Knight That’s Blythe Danner (Gwenyth Paltrow’s mother)
Yes
k so Martha wasn't into dirty talk and just liked to get to the 'point',, we gotcha
Gwyneth Paltrow’s mother!
Blythe Danner's version of this song is way beyond anyone else's.Others sound like bad imitations.
coughBettyBuckleycough
@@Cyberlucy As compared to what exactly? Blythe Danner's version is terrible. No voice. Insipid interpretation. It's embarrassing. Listen to Betty Buckley in the stage version. Enchanting.
@@hudsony777 LOL I think you replied to the wrong person. I agree with you.
@@Cyberlucy I know where I replied. I'm never sure where to put the reply. I think the poster gets notice too.
@@hudsony777 ok.
... and “enthusiasm” all the way around...(I haven’t seen it in long time.) While doling out well-deserved praise, it is now known from the release of “She Said” that it was Gwyneth Paltrow (Blythe’s daughter) who was foremost in bringing down Harvey Weinstein. Her then boyfriend Brad Pitt “visited” the demon 🐷 with his own well established cache of Hollywood power and it was because she was willing to really put her career on the line to bring IT down that other women ~multitudinous (who had been interviewed before and then nothing had come of their interviews) along with the higher echelons of the NY Times backing the two investigative reporters, to speak openly about their experiences. I like especially the Paris Match cover of Marion Cotillard going -literally toe to toe with the evil pos in all his insane “glory”. ~See, what we can do together? (I think it’s supposed to be that way, gentlemen..)
If you can't see any African Americans in this musical; if you understand why the entire South was willing to walk away from independence over the ownership of slaves; then you understand why many African Americans don't celebrate July 4th as our day of freedom and the necessity of our own day of freedom... Juneteenth (6/19/1865) 2 and a half years AFTER Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Slaves in many southern states didn't even know they were free until General Granger told them because up until then it was illegal for slaves to read. So Happy Independence Day to Caucasian America!
without the declaration of independence we would not be were we are now. so you should thank those white cis straight men, African American, Asian American, doesn't matter we're all Americans here and we share this history. we shouldn't divide ourselves like done in the past
@@sarcastic4982 where we are today? That's something for YOUR privileged arse to be proud of. Just because you say it, doesn't make it fact. And when you thank Africans for your race's very existence, since Africa is the cradle of civilization, then I'll get right on my ouija board and thank them. Now go ahead and have the last word as mouth-breathing troglodytes like yourself live for.
What an insufferable little shit.
@@Jeremiah_Gottwald What a privileged little biped whose fear and ignorance blinds it from simple history. I can't help it if you're butthurt from reading the truth about your country. I'm done with the battle of wits with witless.
@@StepInsideMyMind Lmao
Gwyneth Paltrow's mom.
This is a great movie with some great songs, but it doesn't work at all as a musical. You could cut almost every song out without messing up the story. This song for example was completely unnecessary, it's just that it's so damn catchy
yes this thomas jefferson fellow seems like an ideal guy except for the fact that he forcefully copulated with his wife's fourteen year old sister after she died : )
gotta love him
Hadn't heard that one before, though I know he raped some of his slaves. Thomas Jefferson is so fascinating because he's a contradiction- one of the most brilliant, eloquent champions for liberty who ever lived, and yet someone who in his personal life betrayed every principle he advocated. In a way, he can be seen as personifying the conflict between the idealized democracy that America aspires to be, and the corrupt state it so often is in practice.
i still dont get it...please explain?
*death
Sorry, this is the worst thing about the movie. When one hears the original Martha this version is such a disappointment to the point of shame. 😪
This song is embarrassing.