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The Schuyler Sisters (2014 Workshop)Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: February 17, 2015

Featuring: Leslie Odom Jr. Renée Elise Goldsberry Phillipa Soo Ciara Renee

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: Lin-Manuel Miranda

[BURR]
There’s nothing rich folks love more
Than going downtown and slummin’ it with the poor
They pull up in their carriages and gawk
At the students in the common
Just to watch them talk
Take Philip Schuyler: the man is loaded
Uh-oh, but little does he know that
His daughters, Peggy, Angelica, Eliza
Sneak into the city just to watch all the guys at—

[COMPANY]
Work, work!

[ANGELICA]
Angelica!

[COMPANY]
Work, work!

[ELIZA]
Eliza!

[PEGGY] [COMPANY] And Peggy! Work, work!
[COMPANY]
The Schuyler sisters!

Work!

[PEGGY]
Daddy said to be home by sundown

[ANGELICA]
Daddy doesn’t need to know

[PEGGY]
Daddy said not to go downtown

[ELIZA]
Like I said, you’re free to go

[ANGELICA]
But—look around, look around, the
Revolution’s happening in New York

[ELIZA/PEGGY]
New York

[COMPANY]
Angelica
Work!

[PEGGY]
It’s bad enough daddy wants to go to war

[ELIZA]
People shouting in the square

[PEGGY]
It’s bad enough there’ll be violence on our shore

[ANGELICA]
New ideas in the air

[ANGELICA AND MALE ENSEMBLE]
Look around, look around—

[ELIZA]
Angelica, remind me what we’re looking for…

[ALL MEN]
She’s lookin’ for me!

[ANGELICA] [ENSEMBLE] Eliza, I’m lookin’ for a mind at work Work, work! I’m lookin’ for a mind at work Work, work! I’m lookin’ for a mind at work Work, work! Whooaaaaa!
[COMPANY]
Work!

[BURR]
Wooh! There’s nothin’ like summer in the city
Someone in a rush next to someone lookin’ pretty
Excuse me, miss, I know it’s not funny
But your perfume smells like your daddy’s got money
Why you slummin’ in the city in your fancy heels
You searchin for an urchin who can give you ideals?

[ANGELICA]
Burr, you disgust me

[BURR]
Ah, so you’ve discussed me
I’m a trust fund, baby, you can trust me

[ANGELICA]
I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine
So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane
You want a revolution? I want a revelation
So listen to my declaration:

[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all men are created equal”

[ANGELICA]
And when I meet Thomas Jefferson

[ANGELICA AND COMPANY]
Unh!

[ANGELICA]
I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel!

[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY]
Work!

[ELIZA] [COMPANY] Look around, look around at how Lucky we are to be alive right now! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey [ELIZA/PEGGY] Look around, look around at how Lucky we are to be alive right now! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
[PEGGY]
History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be
In the greatest city in the world!

[FULL COMPANY]
In the greatest city in the world!

[ANGELICA] [ELIZA/PEGGY] [MEN] Cuz I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine Look around, look around Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane at how lucky we are to be alive right now Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! ELIZA/PEGGY/ENSEMBLE] You want a revolution?
I want a revelation Look around, look around Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! So listen to my declaration: at how lucky we are to be alive right now Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
[FULL COMPANY]
History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be

[ALL WOMEN]
In the greatest city in the world

[ALL MEN]
In the greatest city—

[FULL COMPANY]
In the greatest city in the world!

[COMPANY] Work, work! [ELIZA] Hey! Work, work! [ELIZA/PEGGY] Hey! Work, work! [ANGELICA] Hey! Whoa! Work, work! Hey! [ELIZA/PEGGY/ENSEMBLE] work, work, work! Hey, hey, hey! [ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY] We're looking for a mind at [FULL COMPANY] work!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning American writer, composer, playwright, and actor. He created and starred in two hit musicals, In the Heights and Hamilton (2015), an epic adaptation of Ron Chernow’s biography of the American founding father. Miranda also co-wrote the music and lyrics for Disney’s Moana (2016). The film’s main theme, “How Far I’ll Go”, was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Personally, Miranda has received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton), three Tony Awards (Best Original Score for both ITH and Hamilton, Best Book of a Musical for Hamilton), two Grammys (Best Musical Theatre Album ITH, Hamilton), and an Emmy (Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for “Bigger”). He was the recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant”. He has a star on the Puerto Rican Walk of Fame and will receive a Hollywood star in 2018.

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