Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Does Their Duty

Act Two, Song Three from
"Home-a-ton: A Quarantine Musical."

[WASHINGTON]
Let me tell you what I wish we’d learn
To combat our leaders’ cruelty:
We can’t let them control

[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Who lives
Who dies-
Let’s do our duty

[WASHINGTON]
It’s up to all of us

[JEFFERSON]
Gotta resist - our government’s response has been a disaster
They couldn’t have done worse if they tried
And they tried

[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Who lives?
Who dies?
Who does their duty?

[WASHINGTON]
President Great Again:

[MADISON]
He took our country from amity to calamity
And he won’t admit it, but he deserves most of the credit
For all the death that he gave us

[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Who lives?
Who dies?
Who does their duty?

[ANGELICA]
Our blundering and Floundering Fathers hearts are so cold
As numbers are compounding – fathers aren’t gon’ grow old

[BURR]
And when they’re gone, who of us is to blame?
Whose life stayed the same?

[BURR AND MEN]
And who did their duty?

[ANGELICA AND WOMEN]
Who did their duty?

[BURR AND MEN]
Who did their duty?

[WOMEN]
Let’s rise up

[ELIZA]
Increased selfless action’s imperative

[WOMEN]
Let’s rise up

[ELIZA]
We may be washing our hands
And being careful where we stand
It's not enough

[COMPANY]
Let’s rise up

[ELIZA]
We will eschew the exposers who’ll not stay inside

[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENCE]
Let’s do our duty

[ELIZA]
This virus just spreads, killing thousands of folks while we’re fighting
We can still curb it, but we’re running out of-

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
Time

[ELIZA]
The deniers-

[ELIZA AND ANGELICA]
Are killing us

[ELIZA]
They’re not inclined-

[ELIZA AND ANGELICA]
To do their duty

[ELIZA]
We are burying people in trucks

[ELIZA AND ANGELICA]
No room

[ELIZA]
Stacked in freezers – there’s just too many at a-

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
Time

[ELIZA]
And they still accrue
I ask myself, “Why did our response take so much-”

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
Time

[ELIZA]
The ones left behind us
Whose lives much too early were halted
Can’t give them more-

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
Time

[ELIZA]
Sick of rules too measly from our waffling government

[WASHINGTON]
We’ll do our duty

[ELIZA]
Our compassion is bravery
We could have saved many more if we’d acted in-

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
Time

[ELIZA]
And if my time is up, have I done enough?

[ELIZA & COMPANY]
Have I done my duty?

[ELIZA]
Oh, and you know who suffers the most: the-

[COMPANY]
Less fortunate

[ELIZA]
Our essential workers see cases in ratios wildy dis-

[COMPANY]
Proportionate

[ELIZA]
Too late to save hundreds of thousands
The threat just keeps on going up

[COMPANY]
Enormous surge

[ELIZA]
These are times we cannot be bystanders
We don’t have the-

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
Time

[ELIZA]
And before time is up
Can we do enough?

[COMPANY]
Can we do our duty?

[ELIZA]
And I hope that I’ll see you again
It's only a matter of-

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
Time

[COMPANY]
Will you do your duty?

Time

Who lives, who dies, who does their duty?

Time

Will you do your duty?

Time

Who lives, who dies-

[FULL COMPANY]
Let’s do our duty