Released: February 17, 2015
Featuring: Isaiah Johnson Leslie Odom Jr. Daveed Diggs
Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Producer: Lin-Manuel Miranda
[BURR]
How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower
Somehow defeat a global superpower?
How does King George underestimate his haters?
[King George III]
Once we beat the traitors, we'll be greeted as liberators!
[COMPANY]
Yay!
[BURR]
Now, 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!
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I’m takin this horse by the reins makin’
Redcoats redder with bloodstains
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
And I’m never gonna stop 'til I make ‘em
Drop, burn ‘em up and scatter their remains, I’m—
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
Watch me escapin’ em! Engagin’ em!
Enragin’ em! I’m—
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I go to France for more funds
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I come back with more
[LAFAYETTE AND ENSEMBLE]
Guns
And ships
And so the balance shifts
[WASHINGTON]
We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts
[LAFAYETTE]
We can end the war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but
If we're to succeed, there's someone else we need:
[WASHINGTON]
Please
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
Sir, you’re gonna have to use him eventually
What’s he gonna do on the bench? I mean—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
No one has more resilience
Or matches my practical tactical brilliance—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
You wanna fight for your land back?
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
Ya need your right hand man back!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ya need your right hand man back
Get your right hand man back
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
Alexander Hamilton
I have soldiers who 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…
How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower
Somehow defeat a global superpower?
How does King George underestimate his haters?
[King George III]
Once we beat the traitors, we'll be greeted as liberators!
[COMPANY]
Yay!
[BURR]
Now, 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!
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I’m takin this horse by the reins makin’
Redcoats redder with bloodstains
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
And I’m never gonna stop 'til I make ‘em
Drop, burn ‘em up and scatter their remains, I’m—
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
Watch me escapin’ em! Engagin’ em!
Enragin’ em! I’m—
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I go to France for more funds
[COMPANY]
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I come back with more
[LAFAYETTE AND ENSEMBLE]
Guns
And ships
And so the balance shifts
[WASHINGTON]
We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts
[LAFAYETTE]
We can end the war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but
If we're to succeed, there's someone else we need:
[WASHINGTON]
Please
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
Sir, you’re gonna have to use him eventually
What’s he gonna do on the bench? I mean—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
No one has more resilience
Or matches my practical tactical brilliance—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
You wanna fight for your land back?
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
Ya need your right hand man back!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ya need your right hand man back
Get your right hand man back
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
Alexander Hamilton
I have soldiers who 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…
Hamilton: An American Musical (2014 Workshop)
- Dear Theodosia (Reprise)
- Cabinet Battle #2 (2014 Workshop)
- Stay Alive, Philip (2014 Workshop)
- The Schuyler Sisters (2014 Workshop)
- It’s Quiet Uptown (2014 Workshop)
- Burn (2014 Workshop)
- I Know Him (2014 Workshop)
- That Would Be Enough (2014 Workshop)
- Meet Me Inside (2014 Workshop)
- The Story of Tonight Reprise (2014 Workshop)
- Ladies Transition
- Best of Wives, Best of Women (2014 Workshop)
- Dear Theodosia (2014 Workshop)
- The World Was Wide Enough (2014 Workshop)
- The Reynolds Pamphlet (2014 Workshop)
- The Election of 1800 (2014 Workshop)
- Satisfied (2014 Workshop)
- Helpless (2014 Workshop)
- The Room Where It Happens (2014 Workshop)
- Non-Stop (2014 Workshop)
- Farmer Refuted (2014 Workshop)
- Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) (2014 Workshop)
- Stay Alive (2014 Workshop)
- Wait For it (2014 Workshop)
- History Has Its Eyes On You (2014 Workshop)
- Say No to This (2014 Workshop)
- Blow Us All Away (2014 Workshop)
- What’d I Miss? (2014 Workshop)
- Your Obedient Servant (2014 Workshop)
- Schuyler Defeated (2014 Workshop)
- Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (2014 Workshop)
- We Know (2014 Workshop)
- No John Trumbull
- Let It Go
- Ten Things One Thing (2014 Workshop)
- Congratulations (2014 Workshop)
- Right Hand Man (2014 Workshop)
- Dear Theodosia (Reprise)
- One Last Ride
- Alexander Hamilton (2014 Workshop)
- Tomorrow There’ll Be More of Us (2014 Workshop)
- Hurricane (2014 Workshop)
- My Shot (2014 Workshop)
- Take a Break (2014 Workshop)
- You’ll Be Back (2014 Workshop)
- The Story of Tonight (2014 Workshop)
- Ten Duel Commandments (2014 Workshop)
- Washington On Your Side (2014 Workshop)
- Cabinet Battle #1 (2014 Workshop)
- What Comes Next? (2014 Workshop)
- Aaron Burr, Sir (2014 Workshop)
- Lafayette Interlude
- The Adams Administration (2014 Workshop)
- In the Heights
- Congratulations (2014 Workshop)
- Breathe
- 96,000
- Carnaval del Barrio
- First Burn
- The Adams Administration (2014 Workshop)
- Blackout
- Almost Like Praying
- It Won’t Be Long Now
- The Hamilton Mixtape
- Benny’s Dispatch
- No Me Diga
- Tomorrow There’ll Be More of Us
- Sunrise
- What the Heck I Gotta Do
- When You’re Home
- Paciencia y Fe
- Finale
- The Club
- Dear Theodosia (Reprise)
- Champagne
- One Last Ride
- Everything I Know