Hamilton: El Musical

Right Hand Man

Company
British Admiral Howe's got troops on the water.
Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor.

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Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor
When they surround our troops!
They surround our troops!
When they surround our troops!

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Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor.
They surround our troops!
They surround our troops!

Hamilton
As a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war.
I knew that I was poor,
I knew it was the only way to-

Hamilton/Burr/Mulligan/Laurens/Lafayette
Rise up!

Hamilton
If they tell my story
I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or-

Hamilton/Burr/Mulligan/Laurens/Lafayette
Rise up!

Hamilton
We will fight for this land
but there's only one man
who can give us a command so we can-

Hamilton/Burr/Mulligan/Laurens/Lafayette
Rise up!

Hamilton
Understand? It's the only way to-

Hamilton/Burr/Mulligan/Laurens/Lafayette
Rise up!
Rise up!

Hamilton
Here he comes!

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Here comes the General!

Burr
Ladies and gentlemen!

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Here comes the General!

Burr
The moment you've been waiting for!

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Here comes the General!

Burr
The pride of Mount Vernon!

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Here comes the general!

Burr
George Washington!

Washington
We are outgunned, outmanned,
outnumbered, outplanned.
We gotta make an all out stand
ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man.

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What?
What?
Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!
Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!

Washington
Check it-
Can I be real a second?
For just a millisecond?
Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?
Now I'm the model of a modern major general,
the venerated Virginian veteran
whose men are all lining up,
to put me up on a pedestal,
writin' letters to relatives
embellishin' my elegance and eloquence,
but the elephant is in the room,
the truth is in ya face when ya hear the British cannons go...