Company:

The battle of Yorktown

1781

Lafayette:

Madam Hamilton

Alexandria:

Madam Lafayette

Lafayette:

In command where you belong?

Alex:

How you say?

'No sweat'

We're finally on the field

We've had quite a run

Lafayette:

Immigrants?

Lafayette/Alex:

We get the job done

Alex:

So what happens if we win?

Lafayette:

I go back to France

I bring freedom to my people

If I'm given the chance

Alex:

We'll be with you if you do

Lafayette:

Go, lead your women!

Alex:

I'll see you on the other side

Lafayette:

'Till we meet again

Let's go!

alex/company:

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

And I'm not throwin' away my shot

I am not throwin' away my shot

'Till the world turns upside down

'Till the world turns upside down

Alex:

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 women with me

Then i remember my Elijah's expecting me

Not only that, whom my Elijah's expecting

We gotta go, gotta change the world

Gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my girl

Take the bullets out your gun(what?)

The bullets out your gun(what)

We move undercover and we move 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 the bayonet

The codeword is "rochambeau", dig me?

(Rochambeau)

You have your orders now go, girls, go!

And so the american experiment begins

With my friends all scattered to the whims

Laurens is in south Carolina, redefining bravery

Jan:

We'll never be free until we end slavery

Alex:

When we finally drive the british away

Lafayette is there waiting in-

Alex/Lafayette:

Chesapeak Bay

Alex:

How did we know that this plan would work?

We had a spy on the inside

That's right

alex/Company:

Heracles Mulligan!

Heracles:

A tailor spyin' on the british government

I take their measurements, information, and then i smuggle it

(up!)

Tell my sister's revolutionary covenant

I'm runnin' with the girls of liberty and I am lovin' it

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

We in the shit now, somebody gotta shovel it

Heracles Mulligan, I need no introduction

When you knock me down i get the fuck back up again

Company:

let's go!

woo!

Left! Right! Hold!

Go!

What! What! What!

Alex:

After a week of fighting

A young lady in a redcoat stands on a parapet

Lafayette:

We lower our guns as she frantically waves a white handkerchief.

Heracles:

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

Jan:

Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom

Georgia:

Not yet

Alex:

We negotiate the terms of surrender

I see Georgia Washington smile

We escort the women 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

Company:

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!

Company:

Down, down, down!

Alex:

Gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my girl!

Company:

Down, down, down!

Alex/Lafayette/Jan/Heracles:

We won!

We won!

We won!

We won!

Company:

The world turned upside down!