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Lin-Manuel Miranda releases new ‘Hamilton’ song about Ben Franklin

Lin-Manuel Miranda releases new 'Hamilton' song about Ben Franklin

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, foreground, performs with members of the cast of the musical "Hamilton" in New York.

    "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has more music for us to get stuck in our heads.

    The Tony Award-winning playwright and composer released a new song, this one inspired by the life of Ben Franklin. Called "Ben Franklin's Song", it is a creation of both Miranda and the rock band, The Decembrists.

    PHOTO: Actor and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda poses at the world premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios Moana as a part of AFI Fest in Hollywood, Calif., Nov. 14, 2016.Danny Moloshok/Reuters, FILE
    Actor and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda poses at the world premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Moana" as a part of AFI Fest in Hollywood, Calif., Nov. 14, 2016.

    Miranda, 37, teased the new track Friday on Twitter, asking his followers, "'Member how I said I once wrote some Decemberists-esque lyrics for a Ben Franklin tune, but never set ‘em to music?"

    "So I sent the lyrics to @ColinMeloy. He's in @TheDecemberists," he continued. "And HE set it to music as only he and his crew can. It absolutely blew me away. I weent BACK to write new lyrics for a bridge for him."

    And HE set it to music as only he and his crew can.
    It absolutely blew me away.
    I weent BACK to write new lyrics for a bridge for him.

    — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) December 14, 2017

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    — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) December 14, 2017

    The song would fit perfectly in the musical Miranda is best known for, "Hamilton." The 2015 hip-hop musical is centered on the life of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

    PHOTO: Actor Brandon Victor Dixon who plays Arron Burr, the nations third vice president, in Hamilton speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York, Nov. 18, 2016. Hamilton LLC via AP, FILE
    Actor Brandon Victor Dixon who plays Arron Burr, the nation's third vice president, in "Hamilton" speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York, Nov. 18, 2016.

    "Ben Franklin's Song" appears to be the first of many new songs to come.

    Miranda shared on Twitter, "We’re gonna drop some new Hamilton content, every month, December NOW through December 2018."

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