[BURR]
Bm F#
How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower
Somehow defeat a global superpower?
G
How do we emerge victorious from the quagmire?
D Bbdim
Leave the battlefield waving Betsy Ross’ flag higher?
Bm* Bm
Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon!
F#
An immigrant you know and love who’s unafraid to step in!
G
He’s constantly confusin’, confoundin’ the British henchmen
D Bbdim
Ev’ryone give it up for America’s favorite fighting Frenchman!
[COMPANY]
Bm
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I’m takin this horse by the reins makin’
Redcoats redder with bloodstains
[COMPANY]
F#
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
And I’m never gonna stop until I make ‘em
Drop and burn ‘em up and scatter their remains, I’m
[COMPANY]
G
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
Watch me engagin’ em! Escapin’ em!
Enragin’ em! I’m—
[COMPANY]
D
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I go to France for more funds
[COMPANY]
Bbdim
Lafayette!
[LAFAYETTE]
I come back with more
[LAFAYETTE AND ENSEMBLE]
Bm
Guns
And ships
And so the balance shifts
[WASHINGTON]
F#
We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts
[LAFAYETTE]
G
We can end this war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but
D Bbdim
For this to succeed, there is someone else we need:
[WASHINGTON]
I know
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Bm
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
F#
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
Sir, you’re gonna have to use him eventually
What’s he gonna do on the bench? I mean—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
G
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
No one has more resilience
Or matches my practical tactical brilliance—
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
D
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE]
You wanna fight for your land back?
[COMPANY]
Bbdim
Hamilton!
[WASHINGTON]
I need my right hand man back!
[WOMEN]
Hamilton!
[LAFAYETTE] [MEN]
Bm
Ah! Uh, get ya right hand man back Get your right hand man back!
F#
You know you gotta get ya right hand man back Your right hand man back!
G
I mean you gotta put Hamilton!
some thought into the letter Ha—
D
but the sooner the better Ha—
Bbdim
To get your right hand man back!
[WOMEN, MEN]
Hamilton, Hamilton!
Ha— ha—!
[WASHINGTON]
Bm
Alexander Hamilton
G7
Troops are waiting in the field for you
Em D F#
If you join us right now, together we can turn the tide
Bm
Oh, Alexander Hamilton
G7
I have soldiers that will yield for you
Em
If we manage to get this right
D Em
They’ll surrender by early light
Bm G D F#7 G7
The world will never be the same, Alexander…
