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!
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 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…
ENSEMBLE ‘Til the world turns upside down!
HAMILTON 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!
ENSEMBLE What?
HAMILTON The bullets out your gun!
ENSEMBLE What?
HAMILTON 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? ENSEMBLE Rochambeau!
HAMILTON 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,
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 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!
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 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…
ALL MEN The world turned upside down.
FULL COMPANY 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.
HAMILTON Gotta start a new nation, gotta 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!