-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…