1776 (musical)

Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve • 1776
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Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve lyrics

[ADAMS, spoken]

Dear God! For one solid year, they have been sitting here! A whole year! Doing nothing!

(sung)

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?

I say this with humility in

Philidelphia

We're your responsibility in

Philadephia

If you don't want to see us hanging

From some far-off British hill

If you don't want the voice of independency

Forever stilled

Then God, sir, get thee to it

For Congress never will

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

[CONGRESSMAN]

Someone ought to open up a window!

[ADAMS, spoken]

Good God!

(sung)

They may sit here for years and years in

Philadelphia

These indecisive grenadiers of

Philadelphia

They can't agree on what is right and wrong

Or what is good or bad

I'm convinced the only purpose this Congress ever had

Was to gather here specifically

To drive John Adams mad!

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

Philadephia!

[ABIGAIL]

John, John, is that you carrying on?

John?

[ADAMS, spoken]

Oh, Abigail, Abigail, I have such a desire to knock heads together!

[ABIGAIL, spoken]

I know, my dearest, I know. But that's because you make everything so complicated. It's all quite simple, really

(sung)

Just tell the Congress to declare

Independency

Then sign your name, get out of there and

Hurry home to me

Our children all have dysentery

Little Tom keeps turning blue

Little Abby has the measles

And I'm coming down with flu

They say we may get smallpox

[ADAMS, spoken]

Uh, madam, what else is new?

Abigail, in my last letter, I wrote you to organize the ladies to make saltpeter for gunpowder. Have you done as I asked?

(Abigail)

No, John, I have not.

[ADAMS, spoken]

Why have you not?

More urgent, madam? [ABIGAIL, spoken]

John! I'm afraid we have a more urgent problem.

[ABIGAIL, sung]

There's one thing every woman's missed in

Massachusetts Bay

Don't smirk at me, you egotist, pay

Heed to what I say

We've gone from Framingham to Boston

And we cannot find a pin!

"Don't you know there's war on?"

Say the tradesmen with a grin

Well, we will not make saltpeter

Until you send us pins!

[ADAMS, spoken]

Pins, madam?

Saltpeter!

'Peter!

'PETER!

Done, madam. Done

Oh, as soon as I'm able

Every day, my dearest friend

(sung)

Till then

I am

As I ever was

And ever shall be

Yours

Saltpeter, John

[ABIGAIL, spoken]

Pins!

...Pins

Done, John

Hurry home, John

Don't stop writing. It's all I have

(sung)

Till then

I am

As I ever was

And ever shall be

Yours

Pins, Abigail

[CONGRESS]

For God's sake, John, sit down

Translations of "Piddle, Twiddle, and..."

Swedish

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3.	Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve

Idioms from "Piddle, Twiddle, and..."

1.	pay heed to

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1776 (musical)

Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve • 1776

Piddle, Twiddle, and Resolve lyrics