Benny' s Dispatch

Song Benny’s Dispatch
Artist Lin-Manuel Miranda
Album In the Heights (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Lyrics

[00:00.84] BENNY
[00:02.19] Check 1 2 3 Check 1 2 3
[00:06.38] This is Benny on the dispatch, yo
[00:09.74] Atencion, yo, attention,
[00:13.61] It's Benny and I'd like to mention
[00:16.12] I'm on the microphone this mornin
[00:18.58] Honk ya horn if ya want it
[00:20.52] Okay, we got traffic on the west side
[00:23.56] Get off at 79th and take the left side
[00:26.35] Of Riverside Drive and ya might slide
[00:29.10] West End's ya best best friend if you catch the lights
[00:31.86] And don't take Deegan
[00:34.34] Manny Ramirez is in town this weekend
[00:36.83] Sorry Dominicans, take Route 87, you ain't getting back in again
[00:41.08] Hold up a minute
[00:42.17] NINA
[00:42.79] Benny, hey-
[00:43.68] BENNY
[00:44.68] Nina, you're home today!
[00:45.38] NINA
[00:45.80] Any sign-
[00:46.42] BENNY
[00:47.04] Of your folks, they're on their way
[00:47.89] NINA
[00:48.07] Anyway-
[00:48.80] BENNY
[00:49.15] It's good to see your face
[00:49.99] NINA
[00:50.56] Anytime
[00:51.24] BENNY
[00:51.66] Hold up a minute, wait
[00:52.52] You used to run this dispatch, right?
[00:54.97] NINA
[00:55.18] Once or twice-
[00:57.51] BENNY
[00:57.78] Well check the technique! yo!
[01:00.04] There's a traffic accident I have to mention
[01:03.15] At the intersection of 10th ave and the Jacob Javitz Convention Center
[01:05.51] And check it, don't get stuck in the rubber-neckin on 192nd
[01:09.56] There's a double-decker bus wreck
[01:11.01] Now listen up we got a special guest
[01:13.40] Live and direct from a year out west
[01:15.94] Welcome her back, cuz she looks mad stressed
[01:18.58] Nina Rosario, the barrio's best
[01:21.15] Honk your horns
[01:27.74] She's smiling
[01:30.48] Say hello
[01:32.54] NINA
[01:33.32] (into the radio) Hello. Good morning!
[01:44.98] (She hands back the radio)
[01:46.22] I better find my folks
[01:48.02] Thanks for the welcome wagon
[01:50.25] BENNY
[01:50.60] Anytime, Anytime, Nina
[01:54.19] Wait here with me
[02:00.25] It's getting hot outside, turn up the AC
[02:05.94] Stay here with me
[02:10.91]