Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
[COMPANY]The battle of Yorktown. 1781
[LAFAYETTE]Monsieur Hamilton
[HAMILTON]Monsieur Lafayette
[LAFAYETTE]In command where you belong
[HAMILTON]How you say, no sweatWe'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 FranceI 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!
[ENSEMBLE]I am not throwin’ away my shot!I am not throwin’ away my shot!Hey yo, I’m just like my country, I’m youngScrappy and hungryAnd I’m not throwin’ away my shot!I am not throwin’ away my shot!
[HAMILTON]‘Til the world turns upside down…
[ENSEMBLE]‘Til the world turns upside down!
[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memoryThis is where it gets me: on my feetThe enemy ahead of meIf this is the end of me, at least I have a friend with meWeapon in my hand, a command, and my men with meThen I remember my Eliza’s expecting me...Not only that, my Eliza’s expectingWe gotta go, gotta get the job doneGotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son!Take the bullets out your gun!
[ENSEMBLE]What?
[HAMILTON]The bullets out your gun!
[ENSEMBLE]What?
[HAMILTON]We move under cover and we move as oneThrough the night, we have one shot to live another dayWe cannot let a stray gunshot give us awayWe will fight up close, seize the moment and stay in itIt’s either that or meet the business end of a bayonetThe code word is ‘Rochambeau,’ dig me?
[ENSEMBLE]Rochambeau!
[HAMILTON]You have your orders now, go, man, go!And so the American experiment beginsWith my friends all scattered to the windsLaurens 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 awayLafayette 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
[HAMILTON/COMPANY]Hercules Mulligan!
[MULLIGAN]A tailor spyin’ on the British government!I take their measurements, information and then I smuggle it
[COMPANY]Up!
[MULLIGAN]To my brother's revolutionary covenantI’m runnin’ with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin’ it!See, that’s what happens when you up against the ruffiansWe in the shit now, somebody's gotta shovel it!Hercules Mulligan, I need no introductionWhen you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!
[COMPANY]Left! Right! Hold!Go!What! What! What!
[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 surrenderI see George Washington smileWe escort their men out of YorktownThey stagger home single fileTens of thousands of people flood the streetsThere are screams and church bells ringingAnd as our fallen foes retreatI hear the drinking song they’re singing…
[ALL MEN]The world turned upside down
[FULL COMPANY]The world turned upside downThe world turned upside downThe world turned upside downDownDown, down, down
[LAFAYETTE]Freedom for America, freedom for France!
[COMPANY]Down, down, down
[HAMILTON]Gotta start a new nationGotta meet my son
[COMPANY]Down, down, down
[MULLIGAN]We won!
[LAFAYETTE]We won!
[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS]We won!
[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS/HAMILTON/WASHINGTON]We won!
[COMPANY]The world turned upside down!