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Hamildresden, Track Six: Blood Rites ("Harry's My Bro")

Summary:

Somebody brought him on, somebody staked a claim
That someone must intend I see him entering the game
My brother has been less than forthcoming and honest
I simply must see Thomas. Thomas!

Part six of my inexplicable quest to adapt a different song from Hamilton for every book of The Dresden Files.

Notes:

To the tune of "What'd I Miss." Try it out with the music!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

[COMPANY]
Silverlight. Si- Si- Silverlight...
Si- Si- Silverlight...

[LARA]
Silverlight Studios
How did this warlock orphan
Insolent aggravating magus
Survive that trap of Duke Ortega's?
Fight all sorts of fiendish foes in ev'ry type of fracas?
Win again, and again
It's truly outrageous
Every adversary fights him to their detriment
Even Denarian bedevilment met impediment
Now he's here. Hampering our plans for Genosa
(Show the man we won't abide his new self-promotion)
Somebody brought him on, somebody staked a claim
That someone must intend I see him entering the game
My brother has been less than forthcoming and honest
I simply must see Thomas. Thomas!

[COMPANY]
Thomas Raith has been holding out!
Thomas Raith has been holding out!
Thomas Raith has been holding out!
Thomas Raith has been holding out!
Thomas Raith has been holding out, why's he
Been helping Dresden so damn much?
Aaa-ooo!
Aaa-ooo!

[THOMAS]
Dresden's callin' me with a situation
And I know I'm gonna go
Cuz when things come up
I will have his back

[ENSEMBLE]
Aaa-ooo!

[THOMAS]
I hope Lara don't cause a confrontation
Cuz I don't want her to know
What's goin' on here in Chicago
I just hope she buys my act…

[ENSEMBLE]
Aaa-ooo!

[THOMAS]
Cuz Harry's my bro!
Harry's my bro!
I give ya that side by side, you never really would know
You know he isn't really slick romancin' ladies
Meanwhile I shamelessly drive my dates crazy
To dazzle a fine, fine girl I just say "hello"

[ENSEMBLE]
Aaa-ooo!

[THOMAS]
But our mother gave us both silver amulets
And she's in one of my dad's portraits
Maggie was my dad's darlin', I'm the proof of it
But soon she prudently abandoned this entanglement
And then suddenly she had found 'n' married a guy, why?
And then she died givin' birth to his kid
I lost my mom but now I had a new little bro

[ENSEMBLE]
Had a new brother!
Had a new brother!

[THOMAS & ENSEMBLE]
Runnin' from some demon chimps
My real outstanding master plan (Outstanding master plan)
Tryna protect
A guy who expects he
Can be Superman (Can be Superman)
But now I must ask him for a favor in turn
My friend Arturo called, gravely concerned
I ask for help but
He just says
"Well that depends"
(Aaa-ooo!)

[HARRY]
Thomas, you might remember the Council and the vampires are at war
And I want to know why you're on my team

[ENSEMBLE]
Aaa-ooo!

[HARRY]
You don't give anything to anyone unless
You know that you'll get yours
So explain what you've been helpin' for
Will you come clean?

[THOMAS]
Uh… sure

[ENSEMBLE]
Aaa-ooo!

[HARRY]
Then let's begin

[THOMAS & ENSEMBLE]
Harry's my bro!
Ha- Ha- Harry's my bro!
Harry's my bro!
Will he want to know?
He won't believe it is possible, oh no!
He won't believe me, oh no!
What if he wants to try to do a soulgaze?
Chik-a-pow!
That just could go so wrong in so many ways
I'm not sure what I will say (I will say)
I guess that he really should know... (Harry's my bro!)
Ahhh ah!

[ARTURO GENOSA]
Thomas, thank you for helping out

[HARRY]
Thomas, don't forget, you have made a deal with me

[ARTURO]
Thomas, thank you for helping out

[COMPANY]
Thomas, thank you for helping out
Why've you been helping Dresden so damn much?

[THOMAS]
Cuz Harry's my bro!

Notes:

Yeah, it felt kinda weird giving Madison's lines to Harry, but it didn't really work for any other character to be talking to Thomas there. Ah well, is anyone really gonna complain about getting more singin' Harry?

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