"Best of Wives and Best of Women" is a short number from the second act of the 2015 musicalHamilton, a musical biography of AmericanFounding FatherAlexander Hamilton, which premiered onBroadway in 2015.Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote both the music and lyrics to the song.[1]Phillipa Soo and Miranda performed the song on the original Broadway album. The song was the basis of a TikTok trend in 2025.
Though the song was not a part of theVassar College performance ofThe Hamilton Mixtape, the pre-cursor to the Broadway musical, in 2013;[2][3] it was included in the musical when it premiered atThe Public Theater, in 2015.[4]
The song features some of the words, including its title,[11] featured in the real Hamilton's last letter to his wife.[12][13] The chords are those from "It's Quiet Uptown".[14] It does not feature the ensemble cast.[15] In 2020, Jennifer Forestal and Menaka Philips ofThe Washington Post listed the song as evidence of Hamilton's acknowledgement of the "unsung labors of wives", echoing Hamilton's historically attested devotion to Eliza.[11]
A demonstrator holds a placard with the title of the song dedicated toMichelle Obama atAnn Arbor Women's March in January 2017
Artist Stef Masciandaro's painting inspired by the song was featured in Arielle Jovellos's art collection, "#Ham4Pamphlet", inspired by the songs of the musical.[16][17]
In July 2025, IrishTikToker Zoe Coyle, actuallyhamilt0n, posted a clip portraying Alexander attempting to sneak out of a window, as alip dub to the track.[18][19][20] Released around the ten year anniversary of the Broadway musical, re-enactments of the clip began to trend on TikTok and other short video platforms.[21][22][19][23] Many of the recreations featuredgender flipped portrayals.[24]
At a screening ofthe film version of the musical, in September 2025, actors Lin-Manuel Miranda and Phillipa Soo re-enacted the trend in the audience.[25][26][27] Soo had also recreated it at a pre-screening photoshoot.[28]
