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AARON BURR:
How does a bastard, orphan,
son of a whore and a Scotsman

Dropped in the middle of a
forgotten spot in the Caribbean

By providence, impoverished, in squalor
grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

JOHN LAURENS:
The ten-dollar Founding Father
without a father

Got a lot farther
by workin' a lot harder

By bein' a lot smarter
by bein' a self-starter

By fourteen, they placed him
in charge of a trading charter

THOMAS JEFFERSON:
And every day while slaves were
being slaughtered and carted away

Across the waves, he struggled
and kept his guard up

Inside, he was longing for
something to be a part of

The brother was ready to
beg, steal, borrow, or barter

JAMES MADISON:
Then a hurricane came
and devastation reigned

Our man saw his future drip,
drippin' down the drain

Put a pencil to his temple,
connected it to his brain

And he wrote his first refrain
a testament to his pain

BURR:
Well the word got around,
they said, "This kid is insane, man!"

Took up a collection just to
send him to the mainland

"Get your education, don't forget
from whence you came,

and the world's gonna know your name!
What's your name, man?"

ALEXANDER HAMILTON:
Alexander Hamilton

My name is Alexander Hamilton

And there's a million
things I haven't done

But just you wait,
just you wait

ELIZA SCHUYLAR:
When he was ten, his father split,
full of it, debt-ridden

Two years later, see Alex
and his mother, bed-ridden

Half-dead, sittin' in their own sick
The scent thick

And Alex got better
but his mother went quick

GEORGE WASHINGTON:
Moved in with a cousin,
the cousin committed suicide

Left him with nothin' but ruined pride,
somethin' new inside

A voice saying
"Alex you gotta fend for yourself"

He started retreatin' and readin'
every treatise on the shelf

BURR:
There would've been nothin' left to do
For someone less astute

He would've been dead or destitute
Without a cent of restitution

Started workin', clerkin'
for his late mother's landlord

Tradin' sugar cane and rum
and other things he can't afford

(Scammin') for every book
he can get his hands on

(Plannin') for the future, see him now
as he stands on (oooh)

The bow of a ship headed
for a new land

In New York you can be a new man

In New York you can be a new man
HAMILTON: Just you wait

In New York you can be a new man
HAMILTON: Just you wait

In New York you can be a new man

In New York!
New York!

HAMILTON:
Just you wait!

Alexander Hamilton
(Alexander Hamilton)

We are waiting in the wings for you
(waiting in the wings for you)

You could never back down
You never learned to take your time!

Oh, Alexander Hamilton
(Alexander Hamilton)

When America sings for you

Will they know what you overcame?
Will they know you rewrote the game?

The world will never be the same, oh

BURR:
The ship is in the harbor now,
see if you can spot him

Another immigrant
comin' up from the bottom

His enemies destroyed his rep,
America forgot him

MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON:
We fought with him!

LAURENS:
Me? I died for him!

WASHINGTON:
Me? I trusted him!

SCHUYLAR SISTERS:
Me? I loved him

BURR:
And me?
I'm the damn fool that shot him!

There's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait

BURR:
What's your name, man?

Alexander Hamilton!

1776

New York City

HAMILTON:
Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?

BURR:
That depends, who's asking?

HAMILTON:
Oh well sure, sir

I'm Alexander Hamilton
I'm at your service, sir

I have been looking for you

BURR:
I'm getting nervous

HAMILTON:
Sir, I heard your name at Princeton

I was seeking an accelerated course of study

When I got sort out of sorts
with a buddy of yours

I may have punched him
It's a blur, sir

He handles the financials--

BURR:
You punched the bursar?

HAMILTON:
Yes, I wanted to do what you did

Graduate in two,
then join the revolution

He looked at me like I was stupid
I'm not stupid

So how'd you do it?
How'd you graduate so fast?

BURR:
It was my parents' dying wish before they passed

HAMILTON:
You're an orphan! Of course!

I'm an orphan
God, I wish there was a war!

Then we could prove that we're worth more
Than anyone bargained for

BURR:
Can I buy you a drink?

HAMILTON:
That would be nice

BURR:
While we're talking,
let me offer you some free advice

Talk less

HAMILTON:
What?

BURR:
Smile more

HAMILTON:
Ha

BURR:
Don't let them know what you're against
or what you're for

HAMILTON:
You can't be serious

BURR:
You want to get ahead?

HAMILTON:
Yes

BURR:
Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead

LAURENS:
Yo yo yo yo yo! What time is it?

LAURENS, MULLIGAN:
Showtime!

BURR:
...like I said...

LAURENS:
Showtime! Showtime! Yo!

I'm John Laurens in the place to be!

Uh, two pints o' Sam Adams,
but I'm working on three, uh!

Those redcoats don't want it with me

Cause I will pop chick-a-pop
these cops 'til I'm free!

LAFAYETTE:
Ah oui oui, mon ami,
je m'appelle Lafayette!

The Lancelot
of the revolutionary set!

I came from afar
just to say "Bonsoir!"

Tell the king, "Casse-toi!"
Who's the best? C'est moi!

MULLIGAN:
Brrrah, brraaah! I am Hercules Mulligan

Up in it, lovin' it
Yes I heard your mother say "come again?"

Lock up your daughters and horses

Of course it's hard to have intercourse
over four sets of corsets

LAURENS:
No more sex

Pour me another brew, son!
Let's raise a couple more

LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:
To the revolution!

LAURENS:
Well if it ain't the prodigy of Princeton College

MULLIGAN:
Aaron Burr

LAURENS:
Give us a verse, drop some knowledge

BURR:
Good luck with that
You're takin' a stand

You spit, I'mma sit
We'll see where we land

LAURENS:
Burr, the revolution's imminent
What do you stall for?

HAMILTON:
If you stand for nothing, Burr,
what'll you fall for?

LAURENS, MULLIGAN, LAFAYETTE:
Oooh

LAURENS:
Who are you?

MULLIGAN:
Who are you?

LAFAYETTE:
Who are you?

Who, who is this kid?
What's he gonna do?

HAMILTON:
I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot!

I'mma get scholarship to King's College

I probably shouldn't brag,
but dag, I amaze and astonish

The problem is I got a lot of brains,
but no polish

I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word I drop knowledge

I'm a diamond in the rough,
a shiny piece of coal

Tryin' to reach my goal,
my power of speech: unimpeachable

Only nineteen,
but my mind is older

These New York City streets
getting colder, I shoulder

Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage
I have learned to manage

I don't have a gun to brandish
I walk these streets famished

The plan is to fan this spark into a flame

But damn, it's getting dark,
so let me spell out my name

I am the--
A-L, E-X, A-N, D

E-R--we are--meant to be

HAMILTON:
A colony that runs independently

Meanwhile, Britain keeps
shitting on us endlessly

Essentially, they tax us relentlessly

Then King George turns around,
runs a spending spree

He ain't never gonna set
his descendants free

So there will be a revolution
in this century

Enter Me!

LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:
(He says in parentheses)

HAMILTON:
Don't be shocked when your
history book mentions me

I will lay down my life
if it sets us free

Eventually you'll see my ascendancy

And I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry

HAMILTON & LAURENS:
And I'm not throwing away my shot

HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot
It's time to take a shot!

LAFAYETTE:
I dream of life without the monarchy

The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"

"Onarchy?" How you say,
how you s--Oh, anarchy!

When I fight I make the other side panicky

With my
Shot!

MULLIGAN:
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice

And I got y'all knuckleheads
in loco parentis

I'm joining the rebellion
cuz I know it's my chance

To socially advance,
instead of sewin' some pants

I'm gonna take a
Shot!

LAURENS:
Eh, but we'll never be truly free

Until those in bondage
have the same rights as you and me

You and I, do or die,
wait till I sally in on a stallion

With the first black battalion

Have another
Shot!

BURR:
Geniuses, lower your voices

You keep out of trouble,
and you double your choices

I'm with you,
but the situation is fraught

You've got to be carefully taught:
If you talk, you're gonna get shot!

HAMILTON:
Burr, check what we got

Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot

I think your pants look hot
Laurens, I like you a lot

Let's hatch a plot blacker
than the kettle callin' the pot

What are the odds the gods
would put us all in one spot

Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom,
like it or not

A bunch of revolutionary
manumission abolitionists

Give me a position,
show me where the ammunition is

Oh, am I talkin' too loud?

Sometimes I get over excited,
shoot off at the mouth

I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I'll make y'all proud

LAURENS:
Let's get this guy in front of a crowd!

I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

LAURENS and (HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN):
Everybody sing

Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh
(Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)

Hey
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)

Wooh!!
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)

Sing let 'em hear ya (Yeah)

Let's go!
(Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)

I said, shout it to the rooftops
(Wo-oh-oh)

Said to the rooftops
(Wo-oh-oh)

Now come on
(Yeah)

Now come on, let's go

Rise up

When you're living on your knees,
you rise up

Tell your brother that
he's got to rise up

Tell your sister that
she's got to rise up

When are these colonies gonna rise up

When are these colonies gonna rise up

When are these colonies gonna rise up

When are these colonies gonna rise up
Rise up!

HAMILTON:
I imagine death so much
it feels more like a memory

When's it's gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?

If I see it coming,
do I run or do I let it be?

Is it like a beat without a melody?

See, I never thought I'd live
past twenty

Where I come from
some get half as many

Ask anybody why we livin'
fast and we laugh, reach for a flask

We have to make this moment last,
that's plenty

Scratch that
This is not a moment, it's the movement

Where all the hungriest brothers
with something to prove went

Foes oppose us,
we take an honest stand

We roll like Moses,
claimin' our Promised Land

And? If we win our independence?

Is that a guarantee of
freedom for our descendants?

Or will the blood we shed
begin an endless

Cycle of vengeance and death
with no defendants?

I know the action in the street is excitin'

But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'
I've been readin' 'n writin'

We need to handle our financial situation

Are we a nation of states?
What's the state of our nation?

I'm past patiently waitin'!
I'm passionately smashin' every expectation

Every action's an act of creation

I'm laughin' in the face of
casualties and sorrow

For the first time,
I'm thinkin' past tomorrow

And I am not throwin' away my shot
I am not throwin' away my shot

Hey, yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry

And I'm not throwin' away my shot

We gonna rise up
time to take a shot
(Not thrown' away my shot)

We gonna rise up;
time to take a shot
(Not throwin' away my shot)

We gonna (rise up, rise up)
It's time to take a shot

(Rise up, rise up)
It's time to take a shot

(Rise up, rise up)
(Wo-oah) Time to take a shot (rise up)

Take a shot, a shot, a shot,
(Oh-Oh, oh)

A-yo, it's time to take a shot
(Woah, oh-oh oh)

Time to take a shot
(Woah-oh)

And I am (And I am)
Not throwing away my

Not throwing away my shot!

One last round gentlemen

HAMILTON:
I may not live to see our glory

LAURENS, MULLIGAN, & LAFAYETTE:
I may not live to see our glory

HAMILTON:
But I will gladly join the fight

LAURENS, MULLIGAN, & LAFAYETTE:
But I will gladly join the fight

HAMILTON:
And when our children tell our story

LAURENS, MULLIGAN, & LAFAYETTE:
And when our children tell our story

HAMILTON:
They'll tell the story of tonight

MULLIGAN:
Let's have another round tonight

LAFAYETTE:
Let's have another round tonight

HAMILTON:
Let's have another round tonight

LAURENS:
Raise a glass to freedom

Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you

Raise a glass to the four of us

LAURENS and MULLIGAN:
Tomorrow there'll be more of us

LAURENS, MULLIGAN, & LAFAYETTE:
Telling the story of tonight

HAMILTON:
They'll tell the story of tonight

MULLIGAN, LAURENS, & LAFAYETTE:
Raise a glass to freedom

Something they can never take away

HAMILTON:
No matter what they tell you

MULLIGAN & LAFAYETTE:
Let's have another round tonight

LAURENS:
Raise a glass to the four of us

MULLIGAN, LAURENS, & LAFAYETTE:
Tomorrow there'll be more of us

HAMILTON & LAURENS:
Telling the story of tonight

MULLIGAN & LAFAYETTE:
Let's have another round tonight

HAMILTON, LAURENS:
They'll tell the story of tonight

LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:
Raise a glass to freedom

HAMILTON, LAURENS:
They'll tell the story of tonight

LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:
Raise a glass to freedom

HAMILTON, LAURENS:
They'll tell the story of tonight

LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:
They'll tell the story of

Tonight

BURR:
There's nothing rich folks love more

Than going downtown
and slumming it with the poor

They pull up in their carriages and gawk

At the students in the common
Just to watch 'em talk

Take Philip Schuyler, the man is loaded
Uh oh, but little does he know

That his daughters,
Peggy, Angelica, Eliza

Sneak into the city
just to watch all the guys at

(Work, work)
ANGELICA:
Angelica!

(Work, work)
ELIZA:
Eliza!

PEGGY:
And Peggy!
(Work, work)

The Schuyler sisters!

ANGELICA:
Angelica!

PEGGY:
Peggy!

ELIZA:
Eliza!
(Work!)

PEGGY:
Daddy said to be home by sundown

ANGELICA:
Daddy doesn't need to know

PEGGY:
Daddy said not to go downtown

ELIZA:
Like I said, you're free to go

ANGELICA:
But--look around, look around

The revolution's happening in New York

ELIZA & PEGGY:
New York

Angelica
Work!

PEGGY:
It's bad enough daddy wants to go to war

ELIZA:
People shouting in the square

PEGGY:
It's bad enough there'll be violence on our shore

ANGELICA:
New ideas in the air

ANGELICA:
Look around, look around--

ELIZA:
Angelica, remind me what we're looking for

ALL MEN:
She's looking for me!

ANGELICA:
Eliza, I'm looking for a mind at work
(work, work)

I'm looking for a mind at work
(work, work)

I'm looking for a mind at work
(work, work)

Woa-oah, woa-oah
Work!

BURR:
Ooh, there's nothing like summer in the city

Someone in a rush
next to someone looking pretty

Excuse me, miss,
I know it's not funny

But your perfume smells
like your daddy's got money

Why you slummin' in the city
in your fancy heels?

You searchin' for an urchin
who can give you ideals?

ANGELICA:
Burr, you disgust me

BURR:
Ahh, so you've discussed me

I'm a trust fund, baby,
you can trust me

ANGELICA:
I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine

So men say that I'm intense or I'm insane

You want a revolution?
I want a revelation!

So listen to my declaration:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all men are created equal"

And when I meet Thomas Jefferson
I'mma compel him to include women in the sequel

Work!

ELIZA:
Look around, look around

At how lucky we are
to be alive right now

ELIZA, PEGGY:
Look around, look around

At how lucky we are
to be alive right now

ANGELICA, ELIZA & PEGGY:
History is happening in Manhattan and we

Just happen to be in the
greatest city in the world

In the greatest city in the world!

Cause I've been reading
Common Sense by Thomas Paine

So men say that
I'm intense or I'm insane

You want a revolution?
I want a revelation!

So listen to my declaration

We hold these truths to be self evident
That all men are created equal

Look around, look around
At how lucky we are to be alive right now

History is happening in Manhattan
And we just happen to be

In the greatest city in the world
(in the greatest city)

In the greatest city in the world!

ANGELICA:
(Work, work) Angelica!

ELIZA:
(Work, work) Eliza!

PEGGY:
And Peggy! (Work, work)

ALL SISTERS:
The Schuyler sisters! (Work, work)

We're looking for a mind at work
(work, work)

Hey (work, work)
Woah-ah! (work, work)

ELIZA & PEGGY (COMPANY):
Hey (work, work)

In the greatest city

ALL SISTERS:
In the greatest city in the world!

In the greatest city in the world!

SEABURY:
Hear ye, hear ye!

My name is Samuel Seabury,
and I present

"Free thoughts on the proceedings
of the Continental Congress!"

Heed not the rabble who scream revolution
They have not your interest at heart

MULLIGAN:
Oh my god. Tear this dude apart

SEABURY:
Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution

Don't let them lead you astray

This congress does not speak for me

BURR:
Let him be

SEABURY:
They're playing a dangerous game

I pray the king shows you his mercy
For shame, for shame!

HAMILTON:
Yo!

(Heed not the rabble who)
He'd have you all unravel

(Scream--)
At the sound of screams

(Revolution--)
But the revolution is comin'

(They have not your interests)
The have-nots are gonna win this

(At heart--)
It's hard to listen to you

with a straight face

(Chaos and bloodshed--)
Chaos and bloodshed

(Are not--)
Already haunt us

(A solution--)
Honestly, you shouldn't even talk--

(Don't let them lead you astray--)
And what about Boston?

Look at the cost of all that we've lost
And you talk about Congress?

SEABURY:
This Congress does not speak for me

HAMILTON:
My dog speaks more eloquently than thee

SEABURY:
You're playing a dangerous game

HAMILTON:
But strangely, your mange is the same!

SEABURY:
I pray the king shows you his mercy

HAMILTON:
Is he in Jersey?

SEABURY:
For shame--

HAMILTON:
For the Revolution!

SEABURY:
For shame!

For the Revolution!

SEABURY:
Heed--

If you repeat yourself again I'm gonna
(Scream--)

Honestly, look at me, please don't read!
(Not your interest--)

Don't modulate the key
then not debate with me

Why should a tiny island across the sea
Regulate the price of tea?

BURR:
Alexander, please!

HAMILTON:
Burr, I'd rather be divisive than indecisive
Drop the niceties

Silence! A message from the King!
A message from the King!

A message from the King!

You say the price of my love's
not a price that you're willing to pay

You cry in your tea which you hurl
in the sea when you see me go by

Why so sad? Remember we made
an arrangement when you went away

Now you're making me mad

Remember despite our estrangement,
I'm your man

You'll be back
Soon you'll see

You'll remember you belong to me

You'll be back
Time will tell

You'll remember that I served you well

Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all

And when push comes to shove,

I will send a fully armed battalion
to remind you of my love

You say our love is draining
and you can't go on

You'll be the one complaining
when I am gone

And, no! don't change the subject
'Cause you're my favorite subject

My sweet, submissive subject
My loyal, royal subject

Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever

You'll be back
Like before

I will fight the fight and win the war

For your love
For your praise

And I'll love you till my dying days

When you're gone, I'll go mad
So don't throw away this thing we had

'Cause when push comes to shove

I will kill your friends and family
to remind you of my love

Everybody!

British Admiral Howe's
got troops on the water

Thirty-two thousand troops in
New York harbor

Thirty-two thousand troops in
New York harbor

When they surround our troops!
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--

Rise up!

HAMILTON:
If they tell my story

I am either gonna die on the
battlefield in glory or--

Rise up!

HAMILTON:
We will fight for this land

But there's only one man
Who can give us a command so we can--

Rise up!

HAMILTON:
Understand? It's the only way to--

Rise up! Rise up!

HAMILTON:
Here he comes!

Here comes the General!

BURR:
Ladies and gentlemen!

(Here comes the General!)
The moment you've been waiting for!

(Here comes the General!)
The pride of Mount Vernon!

(Here comes the General!)
George Washington!

WASHINGTON:
We are outgunned! (What?)

Outmanned!
(What?)

Outnumbered, outplanned!

We gotta make an all out stand

Ayo, I'm gonna need a
right-hand man.

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--

Boom!

Any hope of success is fleeting

How can I keep leading when the people I'm
Leading keep retreating?

We put a stop to the bleeding
as the British take Brooklyn

Knight takes rook, but look
We are outgunned! (What?)

Outmanned!
(What?)

Outnumbered, outplanned!

We gotta make an all out stand

Ayo, I'm gonna need a
right-hand man

Incoming!

HAMILTON:
They're battering down the Battery check the damages

We gotta stop 'em and rob 'em
of their advantages

Let's take a stand with the stamina
God has granted us

Hamilton won't abandon ship
Yo, let's steal their cannons--

Shh-boom!
(Boom!)

WASHINGTON:
Goes the cannon

Watch the blood and the shit spray and--
(Boom!)

Goes the cannon, we're abandonin' Kips Bay and--
(Boom!)

There's another ship and--
(Boom!)

We just lost the southern tip and--
(Boom!)

We gotta run to Harlem quick,
we can't afford another slip

Guns and horses giddyup
I decide to divvy up my forces

They're skittish as the
British cut the city up

This close to giving up,
facing mad scrutiny

I scream in the face of this mass mutiny:

Are these the men
with which I am to defend America?

We ride at midnight,
Manhattan in the distance

I cannot be everywhere at once, people
I'm in dire need of assistance

BURR:
Your excellency, sir!

WASHINGTON:
Who are you?

BURR:
Aaron Burr, Sir?

Permission to state my case?

WASHINGTON
As you were

BURR:
Sir, I was a captain
under General Montgomery

Until he caught a bullet
in the neck in Quebec

And well, in summary

I think that I could be of some assistance

I admire how you keep firing on the British
From a distance

WASHINGTON:
Huh

BURR:
I have some questions, a couple of suggestions

On how to fight instead of fleeing west

WASHINGTON: Yes?
BURR: Well--

HAMILTON:
Your excellency, you wanted to see me?

WASHINGTON:
Hamilton, come in, have you met Burr?

HAMILTON:
Yes, sir

HAMILTON & BURR:
We keep meeting

BURR:
As I was saying, sir, I look forward to
seeing your strategy play out

WASHINGTON: Burr?
BURR: Sir?

WASHINGTON:
Close the door on your way out

HAMILTON:
Have I done something wrong, sir?

WASHINGTON:
On the contrary

I called you here because
our odds are beyond scary

Your reputation precedes you,
but I have to laugh

HAMILTON:
Sir?

WASHINGTON:
Hamilton, how come no one can get you on their staff?

HAMILTON:
Sir!

WASHINGTON:
Don't get me wrong, you're a young man, of great renown

I know you stole British cannons
when we were still downtown

Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox
wanted to hire you...

HAMILTON:
To be their Secretary? I don't think so

WASHINGTON:
Why're you upset?

HAMILTON:
I'm not--

WASHINGTON:
It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hunger

I was just like you when I was younger

Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr?

HAMILTON:
Yes

WASHINGTON:
Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.

HAMILTON:
Why are you telling me this?

WASHINGTON:
I'm being honest

I'm working with a third of what
our Congress has promised

We are a powder keg about to explode
I need someone like you to lighten the load. So?

I am not throwin' away my shot!
I am not throwin' away my shot!

Ayo, I'm just like my country, I'm young
Scrappy and hungry!

HAMILTON:
I am not throwing away my shot!

WASHINGTON:
Son, we are outgunned, outmanned!

HAMILTON:
You need all the help you can get

I have some friends. Laurens, Mulligan
Marquis de Lafayette, okay, what else?

WASHINGTON:
Outnumbered, outplanned!

HAMILTON:
We'll need some spies on the inside

Some King's men who might
let some things slide

(Boom!) I'll write to Congress
and tell 'em we need supplies

You rally the guys,
master the element of surprise

(Chicka-boom!) I'll rise above my station,
organize your information

'til we rise to the occasion
of our new nation. Sir!

Here comes the General!

HAMILTON:
Rise up! (What?)

Here comes the General!

HAMILTON:
Rise up! (What?)

Here comes the General!

HAMILTON:
Rise up! (What?)

Here comes the General!

WASHINGTON:
And his right hand man!

Boom!

BURR:
How does the bastard, orphan,

Son of a whore go on and on
Grow into more of a phenomenon?

Watch this obnoxious,
arrogant, loudmouth bother

Be seated at the right hand of the father

Washington hires Hamilton right on sight
But Hamilton still wants to fight, not write

Now Hamilton's skill with a quill is undeniable
But what do we have in common?

We're reliable with the
Ladies!

BURR:
There are so many to deflower!

Ladies!

BURR:
Looks! Proximity to power

Ladies!

BURR:
They delighted and distracted him

Martha Washington named her
feral tomcat after him!

HAMILTON:
That's true

1780

BURR:
A winter's ball

And the Schuyler sisters are the envy of all
Yo, if you can marry a sister, you're rich, son

HAMILTON:
Is it a question of if, Burr, or which one?

ELIZA:
Ohh, I do I do I do I dooo

Hey!
Ohh, I do I do I do I dooo!

Boy you got me helpless!

Look into your eyes,
and the sky's the limit I'm helpless!

Down for the count,
and I'm drownin' in 'em

ELIZA:
I have never been the type
to try and grab the spotlight

We were at a revel
with some rebels on a hot night

Laughin' at my sister
as she's dazzling the room

Then you walked in
and my heart went "Boom!"

Tryin' to catch your eye
from the side of the ballroom

Everybody's dancin' and
the band's top volume

Grind to the rhythm as we wine and dine

Grab my sister, and whisper,
"Yo, this one's mine."

My sister made her way
across the room to you

And I got nervous, thinking
"What's she gonna do?"

She grabbed you by the arm,
I'm thinkin' "I'm through"

Then you look back at me
and suddenly I'm helpless!

Oh, look at those eyes
(Look into your eyes)

(And the sky's the limit)
I'm helpless

I know
(Down for the count and I'm drownin in 'em)

(I'm helpless!)
I'm so into you

(Look into your eyes and the sky's the limit)
I am so into you

I'm helpless!
I know I'm

Down for the count
And I'm drownin' in 'em.

HAMILTON:
Where are you taking me?

ANGELICA:
I'm about to change your life

HAMILTON:
Then by all means, lead the way

ELIZA:
Elizabeth Schuyler. It's a pleasure to meet you

HAMILTON:
Schuyler?

ANGELICA:
My sister

ELIZA:
Thank you for all your service

HAMILTON:
If it takes fighting a war for us to meet,
it will have been worth it

ANGELICA:
I'll leave you to it

ELIZA:
One week later I'm writing a letter nightly

Now my life gets better,
every letter that you write me

Laughin' at my sister,
cuz she wants to form a harem

ANGELICA:
I'm just sayin', if you really loved me,
you would share him

ELIZA:
Ha!

Two weeks later
In the living room stressin'

My father's stone-faced
While you're asking for his blessin'

I'm dying inside, as you wine and dine

And I'm tryin' not to cry 'cause
there's nothing that your mind can't do

My father makes his way
across the room to you

I panic for a second, thinking
"we're through"

But then he shakes your hand
and says "be true"

And you turn back to me,
smiling, and I'm (Helpless)

(Look into your eyes
and the sky's the limit I'm)

Helpless!
(Helpless)

(Down for the count
And I'm drownin' in 'em)

(Helpless)
That boy

is mine (Look into your eyes
and the sky's the limit)

(I'm helpless!)
Helpless

Down for the count
And I'm drownin' in 'em

HAMILTON:
Eliza, I don't have a dollar to my name

An acre of land, a troop to command,
a dollop of fame

All I have's my honor,
a tolerance for pain

A couple of college credits
and my top-notch brain

Insane, your family brings out
a different side of me

Peggy confides in me,
Angelica tried to take a bite of me

No stress, my love for you
is never in doubt

We'll get a little place in Harlem
and we'll figure it out

I've been livin' without a family
since I was a child

My father left, my mother died,
I grew up buckwild

But I'll never forget my mother's face,
that was real

And long as I'm alive, Eliza, swear to God
You'll never feel so--

(Helpless!)
ELIZA: I do I do I do I do!

HAMILTON: Eliza...
(Helpless!)

ELIZA: I do I do I do I do!
HAMILTON: I've never felt so--

(Helpless)
ELIZA: Hey, yeah, yeah!

(Down for the count)

I'm down for the count I'm--
(And I'm drownin' in 'em)

(Helpless)
HAMILTON: My life is gon' be fine cuz Eliza's in it

I look into your eyes,
and the sky's the limit I'm--

(Helpless!
Down for the count and I'm)

drownin' in 'em

In New York, you can be a new man...

In New York, you can be a new man...

In New York, you can be a new man...

ELIZA:
Helpless

LAURENS:
Alright, alright. That's what I'm talkin' about!

Now everyone give it up for
the maid of honor, Angelica Schuyler!

ANGELICA:
A toast to the groom! (To the groom!)

To the bride!
(To the bride!)

From your sister,
(Angelica)

Who is always by your side.
(By your side!)

To your union,
(To the union! To the revolution!)

and the hope that you provide.
(You provide!)

May you always...
(Always–)

be satisfied.
(Rewind–)

I remember that night, I just might
regret that night for the rest of my days.

I remember those soldier boys
tripping over themselves to win our praise.

I remember that dreamlike candlelight
like a dream that you can't quite place,

but Alexander, I'll never forget
the first time I saw your face.

I have never been the same,
Intelligent eyes in a hunger-pang frame,

And when you said "Hi," I forgot my dang name,
set my heart aflame, ev'ry part aflame,

This is not a game...

HAMILTON:
You strike me as a woman who has never been satisfied.

ANGELICA:
I'm sure I don't know what you mean. You forget yourself.

HAMILTON:
You're like me. I'm never satisfied.

ANGELICA:
Is that right?

HAMILTON:
I have never been satisfied.

ANGELICA:
My name is Angelica Schuyler.

HAMILTON:
Alexander Hamilton.

ANGELICA:
Where's your fam'ly from?

HAMILTON:
Unimportant. There's a million things I haven't
done but just you wait, just you wait...

ANGELICA:
So so so--

So this is what it feels like to match
wits with someone at your level!

What the hell is the catch?
It's the feeling of freedom,

of seein' the light,
it's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite!

You see it, right?
The conversation lasted two minutes,

maybe three minutes,
ev'rything we said in total agreement,

it's a dream and it's a bit of a dance,
a bit of a posture, it's a bit of a stance.

He's a bit of a flirt,
but I'm 'a give it a chance.

I asked about his fam'ly,
did you see his answer?

His hands started fidgeting,
he looked askance?

He's penniless, he's flying
by the seat of his pants.

Handsome, boy, does he know it!
Peach fuzz, and he can't even grow it!

I wanna take him far away from this place,
then I turn and see my sister's face and she is...

ELIZA:
Helpless...

ANGELICA:
And I know she is...

ELIZA:
Helpless...

ANGELICA:
And her eyes are just...

ELIZA:
Helpless...

ANGELICA:
And I realize

Three fundamental truths
at the exact same time...

HAMILTON
Where are you taking me?

ANGELICA
I'm about to change your life.

HAMILTON
Then by all means, lead the way.

(Number one!)
ANGELICA: I'm a girl in a world in which
my only job is to marry rich.

My father has no sons so I'm
the one who has to social climb for one,

so I'm the oldest and the wittiest
and the gossip in New York City is insidious,

And Alexander is penniless, Ha!
That doesn't mean I want him any less.

ELIZA:
Elizabeth Schuyler. It's a pleasure to meet you.

HAMILTON: Schuyler?
ANGELICA: My sister!

(Number two!)
ANGELICA:
He's after me cuz I'm a Schuyler sister.

That elevates his status,
I'd have to be naïve to set that aside,

maybe that is why I introduce him to Eliza,
now that's his bride.

Nice going, Angelica, he was right,
You will never be satisfied.

ELIZA:
Thank you for all your service.

HAMILTON:
If it takes fighting a war for us to meet,
it will have been worth it.

ANGELICA
I'll leave you to it.

(Number three!)
ANGELICA:
I know my sister like I know my own mind

you will never find anyone
as trusting or as kind.

If I tell her that I love him she'd
be silently resigned, he'd be mine.

She would say, "I'm fine"
She'd be lying.

But when I fantasize at night
it's Alexander's eyes,

as I romanticize what might have been
if I hadn't sized him up so quickly.

At least my dear Eliza's his wife;
at least I keep his eyes in my life...

To the groom!
(To the groom!)

To the bride!
(To the bride!)

From your sister,
(Angelica)

Who is always by your side.
(By your side)

To your union,
(To the union! To the revolution!)

and the hope that you provide.
(You provide!)

May you always
(Always–)

be satisfied.
(be satisfied)

And I know
(be satisfied)

She'll be happy as his bride

And I know

He will never be satisfied
I will never be satisfied

LAURENS:
I may not live to see our glory!

MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE:
I may not live to see our glory!

LAURENS
But I've seen wonders great and small.

MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE:
I've seen wonders great and small.

LAURENS:
Cuz if the tomcat can get married,

MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE:
If Alexander can get married-

LAURENS:
There's hope for our ass, after all!

LAFAYETTE:
Raise a glass to freedom.

LAURENS/MULLIGAN:
Hey! Something you will never see again!

MULLIGAN:
No matter what she tells you.

LAFAYETTE:
Let's have another round tonight!

LAURENS
Raise a glass to the four of us!

LAFAYETTE/HAMILTON:
Ho!

MULLIGAN:
To the newly not poor of us!

LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/HAMILTON:
Woo!

LAFAYETTE:
We'll tell the story of tonight.

LAURENS:
Let's have another round-

HAMILTON:
Well, if it isn't Aaron Burr.

BURR:
Sir!

HAMILTON:
I didn't think that you would make it.

BURR:
To be sure.

MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE:
Burr!

BURR:
I came to say congratulations.

MULLIGAN:
Spit a verse, Burr!

BURR:
I see the whole gang is here.

LAFAYETTE:
You are the worst, Burr!

HAMILTON:
Ignore them. Congrats to you, Lieutenant Colonel.

I wish I had your command
instead of manning George's journal.

BURR:
No, you don't.

HAMILTON:
Yes, I do.

BURR:
Now, be sensible.

From what I hear,
you've made yourself indispensable.

LAURENS:
Well, well, I heard

You've got a special someone
on the side, Burr.

HAMILTON:
Is that so?

LAURENS:
What are you tryin' to hide, Burr?

BURR:
I should go.

HAMILTON:
No, these guys should go.

LAFAYETTE: What?
LAURENS: No!

HAMILTON:
Leave us alone.

MULLIGAN:
Man...

HAMILTON:
It's alright, Burr.

I wish you'd brought this girl
with you tonight, Burr.

BURR:
You're very kind, but I'm afraid it's unlawful, sir.

HAMILTON:
What do you mean?

BURR:
She's married.

HAMILTON:
I see.

BURR:
She's married to a British officer.

HAMILTON:
Oh shit...

BURR:
Congrats again, Alexander. Smile more.

I'll see you on the other side of the war.

HAMILTON:
I will never understand you.

If you love this woman, go get here!
What are you waiting for?

BURR:
I'll see you on the other side of the war.

HAMILTON:
I'll see you on the other side of the war.

BURR
Theodosia writes me a letter ev'ry day.

I'm keeping her bed warm
while her husband is away.

He's on the British side of Georgia.
He's tryin' to keep the colonies in line.

Well he can keep all of Georgia.
Theodosia, she's mine.

Love doesn't discriminate
between the sinners and the saints,

it takes and it takes and it takes
and we keep loving anyway.

We laugh and we cry and we break
and we make our mistakes.

And if there's a reason I'm by her side
when so many have tried

then I'm willing to wait for it.
I'm willing to wait for it.

My grandfather was a fire
of brimstone preacher,

But there are things that the
homilies and hymns won't teach ya.

My mother was a genius

My father commanded respect.

When they died they left no instructions.
Just a legacy to protect.

Death doesn't discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints,

it takes and it takes and it takes
and we keep living anyway.

We rise and we fall and we break
and we make our mistakes.

And if there's a reason I'm still alive
when everyone who loves me has died

I'm willing to wait for it.
I'm willing to wait for it.

Wait for it!
(Wait for it)

I am the one thing in life I can control
(Wait for it!)

I am inimitable, I am an original
(Wait for it)

I'm not falling behind or running late
(Wait for it)

I'm not standing still,
I am lying in wait (Wait)

Hamilton faces an endless uphill climb
(Climb)

He has something to prove
He has nothing to lose (Lose)

Hamilton's pace is relentless
he wastes no time (Time)

What's it like in his shoes?
Hamilton doesn't hesitate.

He exhibits no restraint.
He takes and he takes and he takes

And he keeps winning anyway.
He changes the game.

He plays and he raises the stakes.

And if there's a reason he seems to thrive
when so few survive,

then Goddamnit I'm willing to wait for it.
(Wait for it)

I'm willing to wait for it...

Life doesn't discriminate
between the sinners and the saints

it takes and it takes and it takes

We rise.
We fall.

And if there's a reason I'm still alive
When so many others have died,

then I'm willin' to-

Wait for it
(Wait for it)

Wait for it
(Wait for it)

ELIZA:
Stay alive...

ELIZA/ANGELICA:
Stay alive...

HAMILTON:
I have never seen the General so despondent

I have taken over writing
all his correspondence

Congress writes,
"George, attack the British forces."

I shoot back, we have resorted
to eating our horses

Local merchants deny us
equipment, assistance

They only take British money,
so sing a song of sixpence

WASHINGTON:
The cavalry's not coming

HAMILTON:
But, sir!

WASHINGTON:
Alex, listen. There's only one way for us to win this

Provoke outrage, outright

HAMILTON:
That's right

WASHINGTON:
Don't engage, strike by night

Remain relentless 'til
their troops take flight

HAMILTON:
Make it impossible to justify
the cost of the fight

WASHINGTON: Outrun
HAMILTON: Outrun

WASHINGTON: Outlast
HAMILTON: Outlast

WASHINGTON:
Hit 'em quick, get out fast

HAMILTON:
Chick-a-plao!

WASHINGTON:
Stay alive 'til this horror show is past

We're gonna fly a lot of flags half-mast

HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE:
Raise a glass!

MULLIGAN:
I go back to New York and my apprenticeship

LAFAYETTE:
I ask for French aid,
I pray that France has sent a ship

LAURENS:
I stay at work with Hamilton
We write essays against slavery

And every day's a test of our
camaraderie and bravery

HAMILTON:
We cut supply lines, we steal contraband

We pick and choose our battles
and places to take a stand

And ev'ry day
"Sir, entrust me with a command,"

And ev'ry day
WASHINGTON: No

HAMILTON:
He dismisses me out of hand

HAMILTON:
Instead of me he promotes Charles Lee

Makes him second-in-command.
LEE: I'm a General. Whee!!!!

HAMILTON:
Yeah. He's not the choice I would have gone with

HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE:
He shits the bed at the Battle of Monmouth

WASHINGTON: Ev'ryone attack!
LEE: Retreat!

WASHINGTON: Attack!
LEE: Retreat!

WASHINGTON:
What are you doing, Lee?
Get back on your feet!

LEE:
But there's so many of them!

WASHINGTON:
I'm sorry, is this not your speed?!

Hamilton!
HAMILTON: Ready, sir!

WASHINGTON:
Have Lafayette take the lead!

HAMILTON:
Yes, sir!

LAURENS:
A thousand soldiers die in a hundred degree heat

LAFAYETTE:
As we snatch a stalemate from the jaws of defeat

HAMILTON:
Charles Lee was left behind without a pot to piss in

He started sayin' this to
anybody who would listen:

LEE:
Washington cannot be left alone to his devices

Indecisive, from crisis to crisis

The best thing he can do for the revolution

Is turn n' go back to plantin'
tobacco in Mount Vernon

WASHINGTON:
Don't do a thing. History will prove him wrong

HAMILTON:
But, sir!

WASHINGTON:
We have a war to fight, let's move along

LAURENS:
Strong words from Lee, someone oughta hold him to it

HAMILTON:
I can't disobey direct orders

LAURENS:
Then I'll do it

Alexander,
you're the closest friend I've got

HAMILTON:
Laurens, do not throw away your shot

One, two, three, four
Five, six, seven, eight, nine...

BURR/HAMILTON/LAURENS/LEE:
It's the Ten Duel Commandments

It's the Ten Duel Commandments

(Number one!)
LAURENS:
The challenge: demand satisfaction

If they apologize,
no need for further action

(Number two!)
If they don't, grab a friend, that's your second

HAMILTON:
Your lieutenant when there's reckoning to be reckoned

(Number three!)
LEE:
Have your seconds meet face to face

BURR:
Negotiate a peace...

HAMILTON:
Or negotiate a time and place

BURR:
This is commonplace, 'specially 'tween recruits

Most disputes die, and no one shoots
Number four!

LAURENS:
If they don't reach a peace, that's alright

Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site.

HAMILTON:
You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility

BURR:
You have him turn around so he can have deniability

(Five!)
LEE:
Duel before the sun is in the sky

Pick a place to die where it's high and dry
Number six!

HAMILTON:
Leave a note for your next of kin

Tell 'em where you been.
Pray that hell or heaven lets you in.

(Seven!)
LEE:
Confess your sins.

Ready for the moment of adrenaline
when you finally face your opponent

(Number eight!)
LAURENS/LEE/HAMILTON/BURR:
Your last chance to negotiate

Send in your seconds,
see if they can set the record straight.

BURR: Alexander
HAMILTON: Aaron Burr, sir

BURR:
Can we agree that duels are dumb and immature?

HAMILTON:
Sure, but your man has to answer for his words, Burr

BURR:
With his life? We both know that's absurd, sir

HAMILTON:
Hang on, how many men died because
Lee was inexperienced and ruinous?

BURR:
Okay, so we're doin' this

(Number nine!)
HAMILTON:
Look 'em in the eye, aim no higher

Summon all the courage you require
Then count

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine

Number ten paces!

HAMILTON/BURR:
Fire!

HAMILTON:
Lee, do you yield?

BURR:
You shot him in the side! Yes, he yields!

LAURENS:
I'm satisfied

BURR:
Yo, we gotta clear the field!

HAMILTON:
Go! We won.

Here comes the General!

BURR:
This should be fun

WASHINGTON:
What is the meaning of this?
Mr. Burr, get a medic for the General

BURR:
Yes, sir

WASHINGTON:
Lee, you will never agree with me

But believe me,
these young men don't speak for me

Thank you for your service

BURR:
Let's ride!

WASHINGTON: Hamilton!
HAMILTON: Sir!

WASHINGTON:
Meet me inside

Meet him inside! Meet him inside!
Meet him inside, meet him, meet him inside!

WASHINGTON: Son--
HAMILTON: Don't call me son

WASHINGTON:
This war is hard enough without infighting

HAMILTON:
Lee called you out. We called his bluff.

WASHINGTON:
You solve nothing, you aggravate our allies to the south

HAMILTON:
You're absolutely right,
John should have shot him in the mouth

That would've shut him up

WASHINGTON: Son
HAMILTON: I'm notcha son

WASHINGTON:
Watch your tone

I am not a maiden in need of defending, I am grown
HAMILTON: Charles Lee, Thomas Conway

These men take your name
and they rake it through the mud

WASHINGTON:
My name's been through a lot, I can take it

HAMILTON:
Well, I don't have your name.

I don't have your titles
I don't have your land

But, if you
WASHINGTON: No.

HAMILTON:
If you gave me command of a battalion,

a group of men to lead,
I could fly above my station after the war

WASHINGTON:
Or you could die and we need you alive

HAMILTON:
I'm more than willing to die

WASHINGTON:
Your wife needs you alive, son, I need you alive

HAMILTON:
Call me son one more time!

WASHINGTON:
Go home, Alexander

That's an order from your commander

HAMILTON: Sir
WASHINGTON: Go home!

ELIZA:
Look around, look around

At how lucky we are
to be alive right now

Look around, look around...

HAMILTON:
How long have you known?

ELIZA:
A month or so

HAMILTON:
Eliza, you should have told me

ELIZA: I wrote to the General a month ago
HAMILTON: No

ELIZA:
I begged him to send you home

HAMILTON:
You should have told me

ELIZA:
I'm not sorry

I knew you'd fight until the war was won
HAMILTON: The war's not Done.

ELIZA:
But you deserve a chance to meet your son

Look around, look around at how lucky
we are to be alive right now.

HAMILTON:
Will you relish being a poor man's wife

Unable to provide for your life?

ELIZA:
I relish being your wife

Look around, look around...

Look at where you are
Look at where you started

The fact that you're alive is a miracle
Just stay alive, that would be enough

And if this child
Shares a fraction of your smile

Or a fragment of your mind, look out world!
That would be enough

I don't pretend to know
The challenges you're facing

The worlds you keep erasing
and creating in your mind

But I'm not afraid
I know who I married

So long as you come home
at the end of the day

That would be enough

We don't need a legacy
We don't need money

If I could grant you peace of mind
If you could let me inside your heart...

Oh, let me be a part of the narrative
In the story they will write someday

Let this moment be the first chapter:
Where you decide to stay

And I could be enough
And we could be enough

That would be enough

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!

Lafayette!

LAFAYETTE:
I'm takin this horse by the reins makin'
Redcoats redder with bloodstains

(Lafayette!) And I'm never gonna stop until I make 'em
Drop and burn 'em up and scatter their remains, I'm

(Lafayette!) Watch me engagin' em!
Escapin' em! Enragin' em! I'm--

(Lafayette!)
I go to France for more funds

(Lafayette!)
I come back with more 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
WASHINGOTN: I know

Hamilton!

LAFAYETTE:
Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean--

(Hamilton!) Sir, you're gonna have to use him eventually
What's he gonna do on the bench? I mean--

(Hamilton!) No one has more resilience
Or matches my practical tactical brilliance--

(Hamilton!)
You wanna fight for your land back?

(Hamilton!)
WASHINGTON:
I need my right hand man back!

LAFAYETTE:
Ah! Uh, get ya right hand man back

You know you gotta get
ya right hand man back

I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter but
the sooner the better to get your right hand man back!

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...

I was younger than you are now
When I was given my first command

I led my men straight into a massacre
I witnessed their deaths firsthand

I made every mistake
I felt the shame rise in me

And even now I lie awake
Knowing history has its eyes on me

History has its eyes on me.

Let me tell you what I wish I'd known
When I was young and dreamed of glory:

You have no control
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story

I know that we can win
I know that greatness lies in you

But remember from here on in
History has its eyes on you.

History has its eyes on you

The battle of Yorktown

1781

LAFAYETTE: Monsieur Hamilton
HAMILTON: Monsieur Lafayette

LAFAYETTE: In command where you belong
HAMILTON: How you say, no sweat

We're finally on the field,
We've had quite a run.

LAFAYETTE: Immigrants
HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE: We get the job done

HAMILTON: So what happens if we win?
LAFAYETTE: I go back to France

I bring freedom to my people
if I'm given the chance

HAMILTON:
We'll be with you when you do

LAFAYETTE:
Go lead your men

HAMILTON:
See you on the other side

LAFAYETTE:
'Til we meet again, let's go!

I am not throwin' away my shot!
I am not throwin' away my shot!

Hey yo, I'm just like my country,
I'm young scrappy and hungry

And I'm not throwin' away my shot!
I am not throwin' away my shot!

HAMILTON:
'Til the world turns upside down...

'Til the world turns upside down!

I imagine death so much
it feels more like a memory

This is where it gets me: on my feet
The enemy ahead of me

If this is the end of me,
at least I have a friend with me

Weapon in my hand, a command,
and my men with me

Then I remember my Eliza's expecting me...
Not only that, my Eliza's expecting

We gotta go, gotta get the job done

Gotta start a new nation,
gotta meet my son!

Take the bullets out your gun!
(What?)

The bullets out your gun!
(What?)

We move under cover and we move as one

Through the night, we have
one shot to live another day

We cannot let a stray
gunshot give us away

We will fight up close,
seize the moment and stay in it

It's either that or meet the
business end of a bayonet

The code word is 'Rochambeau,' dig me?
(Rochambeau!)

You have your orders now, go, man, go!

And so the American experiment begins
With my friends all scattered to the winds

Laurens is in South Carolina, redefining brav'ry

HAMILTON/LAURENS:
We'll never be free until we end slavery!

HAMILTON:
When we finally drive the British away

Lafayette is there waiting--

HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE:
In Chesapeake Bay!

HAMILTON:
How did we know that this plan would work?

We had a spy on the inside. That's right,
Hercules Mulligan!

MULLIGAN:
A tailor spyin' on the British government!

I take their measurements,
information and then I smuggle it (Up!)

To my brother's revolutionary covenant I'm
runnin' with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin' it!

See, that's what happens when
you up against the ruffians

We in the shit now,
somebody gotta shovel it!

Hercules Mulligan,
I need no introduction

When you knock me down
I get the fuck back up again!

HAMILTON:
After a week of fighting, a young man
in a red coat stands on a parapet.

LAFAYETTE:
We lower our guns as he frantically
waves a white handkerchief.

MULLIGAN:
And just like that, it's over.
We tend to our wounded, we count our dead.

LAURENS:
Black and white soldiers wonder alike
if this really means freedom

WASHINGTON:
Not. Yet.

HAMILTON:
We negotiate the terms of surrender

I see George Washington smile

We escort their men out of Yorktown
They stagger home single file

Tens of thousands of people flood the streets
There are screams and church bells ringing

And as our fallen foes retreat
I hear the drinking song they're singing...

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down
Down down, down, down

LAFAYETTE:
Freedom for America, freedom for France!

Down, down, down

HAMILTON:
Gotta start a new nation! Gotta meet my son!

Down, down, down

MULLIGAN: We won!
LAFAYETTE: We won!

MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS:
We won!

MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS/HAMILTON/WASHINGTON:
We won!

The world turned upside down!

KING GEORGE:
They say,

The price of my war is not a price
that they are willing to pay

Insane
You cheat with the French

Now I am fighting with France and with Spain

I am so blue

I thought that we'd made an arrangement
when you went away

You were mine to subdue
Well even despite our estrangement

I got a small query for you

What comes next?
You've been freed

Do you know how hard it is to lead?

You're on your own
Awesome. Wow.

Do you have a clue what happens now?

Oceans rise, empires fall
It's much harder when it's all your call

All alone, across the sea

When your people say they hate you,
don't come crawling back to me.

You're on your own...

BURR:
Dear Theodosia what to say to you

You have my eyes
You have your mother's name

When you came into the world
you cried and it broke my heart

I'm dedicating everyday to you
Domestic life was never quite my style

When you smile, you knock me out
I fall apart and I thought I was so smart

You will come of age with our young nation

We'll bleed and fight for you
We'll make it right for you

If we lay a strong enough foundation

We'll pass it on to you
We'll give the world to you

And you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday

Yeah you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday

HAMILTON:
Oh, Phillip when you smile I am undone, my son

Look at my son
Pride is not the word I'm looking for

There is so much more inside me now

Oh, Phillip you outshine the
morning sun, my son

When you smile, I fall apart
and I thought I was so smart

My father wasn't around

BURR:
My father wasn't around

HAMILTON:
I swear that

HAMILTON/BURR:
I'll be around for you

HAMILTON:
I'll do whatever it takes

BURR:
I'll make a million mistakes

HAMILTON/BURR:
I'll make the world safe and sound for you

You'll come of age with our young nation

We'll bleed and fight for you
We'll make it right for you

If we lay a strong enough foundation

We'll pass it on to you
We'll give the world to you

And you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday

Yeah, you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday

LAURENS:
I may not live to see our glory.

ELIZA:
Alexander? There's a letter for you.

HAMILTON:
It's from John Laurens. I'll read it later.

LAURENS:
But I will gladly join the fight.

ELIZA:
No. It's from his father.

HAMILTON:
His father?

LAURENS:
And when our children tell our story.

HAMILTON:
Will you read it for me?

LAURENS:
They'll tell the story of tonight.

ELIZA:
"On Tuesday the 27th,

"my son was killed in a gunfight against
British troops retreating from South Carolina.

"The war was already over. As you know,
John dreamed of emancipating and recruiting

"3000 men for the first all-black military regiment.
His dream of freedom for these men dies with him."

LAURENS:
Tomorrow there'll be more of us...

ELIZA:
Alexander. Are you alright?

HAMILTON:
I have so much work to do.

BURR:
After the war I went back to New York

HAMILTON:
A-After the war I went back to New York

BURR:
I finished up my studies and I practiced law

HAMILTON:
I practiced law, Burr worked next door

BURR:
Even though we started at the very same time

Alexander Hamilton began to climb

How to account for his rise to the top?
Maaaaan, the man is non-stop!

HAMILTON:
Gentlemen of the jury, I'm curious, bear with me

Are you aware that we're making hist'ry?

This is the first murder trial
of our brand-new nation

The liberty behind deliberation--
(Non-stop!)

I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
With my assistant counsel

BURR:
Co-counsel. Hamilton, sit down,

Our client Levi Weeks is innocent.
Call your first witness

That's all you had to say!

HAMILTON:
Okay! One more thing--

BURR:
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Soon that attitude may be your doom!

Why do you write like you're
running out of time?

Write day and night like you're
running out of time?

Ev'ry day you fight, like you're
running out of time

Keep on fighting. In the meantime--
(Non-stop!)

HAMILTON:
Corruption's such an old song that
we can sing along in harmony

And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany
This colony's economy's increasingly stalling

And honestly, that's why public service (He's just)
Seems to be calling me. (Non-stop!)

I practiced the law,
I practic'ly perfected it

I've seen injustice in the world
and I've corrected it

Now for a strong central democracy
If not, then I'll be Socrates

Throwing verbal rocks
At these mediocrities.

BURR:
Hamilton, at the Constitutional Convention:

HAMILTON:
I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention

BURR:
There as a New York junior delegate:

HAMILTON:
Now what I'm going to say may sound indelicate...

BURR:
Goes and proposes his own form of government!

(What?)
His own plan for a new form of government!

(What?)
Talks for six hours! The convention is listless!

Bright young man...
Yo, who the f is this?

Why do you always say what you believe?
Why do you always say what you believe?

Ev'ry proclamation guarantees
free ammunition for your enemies!

Why do you write like it's
going out of style?

Write day and night like it's
going out of style?

Ev'ry day you fight like it's
Going out of style

Do what you do

BURR: Alexander?
HAMILTON: Aaron Burr, sir

BURR:
It's the middle of the night

HAMILTON:
Can we confer, sir?

BURR:
Is this a legal matter?

HAMILTON:
Yes, and it's important to me

BURR:
What do you need?

HAMILTON:
Burr, you're a better lawyer than me

BURR:
Okay

HAMILTON:
I know I talk too much, I'm abrasive

You're incredible in court,
You're succinct, persuasive.

My client needs a strong defense.
You're the solution.

BURR:
Who's your client?

HAMILTON:
The new U.S. Constitution

BURR:
No

HAMILTON:
Hear me out

BURR:
No way!

HAMILTON:
A series of essays, anonymously published

Defending the document to the public

BURR: No one will read it
HAMILTON: I disagree

BURR:And if it fails?
HAMILTON: Burr, that's why we need it

BURR: The constitution's a mess
HAMILTON: So it needs amendments

BURR: It's full of contradictions
HAMILTON: So is independence

We have to start somewhere

BURR: No. No way
HAMILTON: You're making a mistake

BURR: Good night
HAMILTON: Hey

What are you waiting for?
What do you stall for?

BURR: What?
HAMILTON: We won the war

What was it all for?
Do you support this constitution?

BURR: Of course
HAMILTON: Then defend it

BURR:
And what if you're backing the wrong horse?

HAMILTON:
Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed

For the notion of a nation
we now get to build

For once in your life,
take a stand with pride

I don't understand how
you stand to the side

BURR:
I'll keep all my plans close to my chest

(Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it)
I'll wait here and see

Which way the wind will blow

I'm taking my time watching the afterbirth
of a nation watching the tension grow.

ANGELICA:
I am sailing off to London.

I'm accompanied by someone who always pays

I have found a wealthy husband who will
keep me in comfort for all my days

He is not a lot of fun, but there's no one
who can match you for turn of phrase

My Alexander

HAMILTON:
Angelica

ANGELICA:
Don't forget to write

ELIZA:
Look at where you are

Look at where you started
The fact that you're alive is a miracle

Just stay alive, that would be enough

And if your wife could share
a fraction of your time

If I could grant you peace of mind
Would that be enough?

BURR:
Alexander joins forces with James Madison
and John Jay to write a series of essays

Defending the new United States Constitution,
entitled The Federalist Papers.

The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays,
the work divided evenly among the three men.

In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays,
in the span of six months.

John Jay got sick after writing five.
James Madison wrote twenty-nine.

Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one!

How do you write like you're
Running out of time?

Write day and night like you're
Running out of time?

Ev'ry day you fight like you're
Running out of time

Like you're running out of time
Are you running out of time?

How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive?
How do you write like you need it to survive?

How do you write ev'ry second you're alive?
Ev'ry second you're alive? Ev'ry second you're alive?

WASHINGTON:
They are asking me to lead

I am doing the best I can
To get the people that I need

I'm asking you to be my right hand man
HAMILTON: Treasury or State?

WASHINGTON: I know it's a lot to ask
HAMILTON: Treasury or State?

WASHINGTON:
To leave behind the world you know...

HAMILTON:
Sir, do you want me to run the
Treasury or State department?

WASHINGTON:
Treasury

HAMILTON:
Let's go

ELIZA:
Alexander...

HAMILTON:
I have to leave

ELIZA:
Alexander--

HAMILTON:
Look around, look around at how
lucky we are to be alive right now

ELIZA:
Helpless...

HAMILTON:
They are asking me to lead

ELIZA:
Look around, isn't this enough?

ANGELICA: He will never be satisfied
ELIZA: What would be enough

ANGELICA:
He will never be satisfied

Satisfied, satisfied
WASHINGTON: History has its eyes on you!

BURR:
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

History has its eyes on you!

HAMILTON:
I am not throwin' away my shot!
(Just you wait!)

I am not throwin' away my shot!
(Just you wait!)

I am Alexander Hamilton!
(Alexander Hamilton! Hamilton!)

(Just you wait!)
I am not throwin' away my shot!