Lin-Manuel Miranda And Barack Obama Team On New Version Of ‘One Last Time’
Lin-Manuel Miranda is back with a favorite collaborator – former President Barack Obama.
The Hamilton creator has just released One Last Time (44 Remix), a gospel version of a song from the hit musical.
He is joined halfway through by Obama – our 44th president – who delivers part of George Washington’s farewell address during a guitar and piano interlude.
“Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors,” Obama intones. He then segues into Washington’s celebration of retirement and being able to enjoy “the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart.”
Miranda also posted a picture on Twitter of the former president casually hanging out in the studio.
Gnight!
See you in 2019! pic.twitter.com/GZl4cxK6gO— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) December 21, 2018
The Obama reworking is the final drop in Miranda’s “Hamildrops” series of tracks, which feature new versions of his songs. Most have been used for charity fundraisers.
Obama and Miranda have teamed before on visits to the White House, and Miranda admits that One Last Time was inspired by Obama reading over Will.i.am’s Yes We Can, which featured an Obama speech backed by acoustic guitar.
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