(burr)
           Bm                                 Gb
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!
   Gb
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)
Gb
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)
   Gb
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)
Gb
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!
    Gb
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 and men)
 
Hamilton, Hamilton!

Ha— ha—!
 

(washington)
Bm
Alexander Hamilton
           G7
Troops are waiting in the field for you
       Em                  D                       Gb
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      Gb7        G7
The world will never be the same, Alexander…
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