VIDEO: Lin-Manuel Miranda Drops Unreleased HAMILTON Song 'Ben Franklin's Song' ft. The Decemberists
By: Stephi Wild Dec. 15, 2017
As BroadwayWorld Hamilton-Song-and-Will-Release-New-Content-Every-Month-20171214" target="_blank">reported yesterday, Lin-Manuel Miranda announced on Twitter that he will be dropping new Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton music every month until December 2018. Miranda explained that this is in place of a volume two of The Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton Mixtape, which was released last year and features a collection of remixes, covers, and tracks inspired by the multi-Tony Award winning Broadway musical.
Miranda is calling this new release of content #HAMILDROPS, and the first track 'Ben Franklin's Song,' a song that never made it to Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton, was released today. Miranda wrote the lyrics when he was writing Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton, but never set them to music. He recently sent them off to the band The Decemberists, who supplied the music for the track.
Check out the track below!
A new website also went live, hamildrops.com, which will have all of the new tracks in one place.
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