BURR:
How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower
Somehow defeat a global superpower?
How do we emerge victorious from the quagmire?
Leave the battlefield waving Betsy Ross' flag higher?
Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon!
An immigrant you know and love who's unafraid to step in!
He's constantly confusin', confoundin' the British henchmen
Ev'ryone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!
COMPANY:
Lafayette!
LAFAYETTE:
I'm takin this horse by the reins makin'
Redcoats redder with bloodstains
COMPANY:
Lafayette!
LAFAYETTE:
And I'm never gonna stop until I make 'em
Drop and burn 'em up and scatter their remains, I'm
COMPANY:
Lafayette!
LAFAYETTE:
Watch me engagin' em! Escapin' em!
Enragin' em! I'm—
COMPANY:
Lafayette!
LAFAYETTE:
I go to France for more funds
COMPANY:
Lafayette!
LAFAYETTE:
I come back with more
LAFAYETTE AND ENSEMBLE:
Guns
And ships
And so the balance shifts
WASHINGTON:
We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts
LAFAYETTE:
We can end this war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but
For this to succeed, there is someone else we need:
WASHINGTON:
I know
WASHINGTON AND COMPANY:
Hamilton!
LAFAYETTE:
Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean—
WASHINGTON AND COMPANY:
Hamilton!
LAFAYETTE:
Sir, you're gonna have to use him eventually
What's he gonna do on the bench? I mean—
WASHINGTON AND COMPANY:
Hamilton!
LAFAYETTE:
No one has more resilience
Or matches my practical tactical brilliance—
WASHINGTON AND COMPANY:
Hamilton!
LAFAYETTE:
You wanna fight for your land back?
COMPANY:
Hamilton!
WASHINGTON:
I need my right hand man back!
WOMEN:
Hamilton!
LAFAYETTE: MEN:
Ah! Uh, get ya right hand man back Get your right hand man back!
You know you gotta get ya right hand man back Your right hand man back!
I mean you gotta put Hamilton!
some thought into the letter Ha—
but the sooner the better Ha—
To get your right hand man back!
WOMEN, MEN:
Hamilton, Hamilton!
Ha— ha—!
WASHINGTON:
Alexander Hamilton
Troops are waiting in the field for you
If you join us right now, together we can turn the tide
Oh, Alexander Hamilton
I have soldiers that will yield for you
If we manage to get this right
They'll surrender by early light
The world will never be the same, Alexander...
