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COMPANY
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!

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!

COMPANY
The world turned upside down!