[COMPANY]

British Admiral Howe's got troops on the water

Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor

[ENSEMBLE 1 & ENSEMBLE 2]

Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor

Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor

When they surround our troops!

They surround our troops!

They surround our troops!

They surround our troops!

When they surround our troops!

[HAMILTON]

As a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war

I knew that I was poor

I knew it was the only way to—

[HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]

Rise up!

[HAMILTON]

If they tell my story

I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or—

[HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]

Rise up!

[HAMILTON]

I will fight for this land

But there's only one man

Who can give us a command so we can—

[HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]

Rise up!

[HAMILTON]

Understand? It's the only way to—

[HAMILTON/BURR/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]

Rise up! Rise up!

[HAMILTON]

Here he comes!

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[BURR]

Ladies and gentlemen!

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[BURR]

The moment you've been waiting for!

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[BURR]

The pride of Mount Vernon!

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[BURR]

George Washington!

[WASHINGTON & ENSEMBLE]

We are outgunned (What?)

Outmanned (What?)

Outnumbered

Outplanned (Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!)

We gotta make an all out stand

Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man

(Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!)

[WASHINGTON]

Check it—

Can I be real a second?

For just a millisecond?

Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?

Now I'm the model of a modern major general

The venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all

Lining up, to put me up on a pedestal

Writin' letters to relatives

Embellishin' my elegance and eloquence

But the elephant is in the room

The truth is in ya face when ya hear the British cannons go…

[ENSEMBLE]

Boom!

[WASHINGTON]

Any hope of success is fleeting

How can I keep leading when the people I'm

Leading keep retreating?

We put a stop to the bleeding as the British take Brooklyn

Knight takes rook, but look

[WASHINGTON & ENSEMBLE]

We are outgunned (What?)

Outmanned (What?)

Outnumbered

Outplanned (Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!)

We gotta make an all out stand

Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man

(Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!)

Incoming!

[HAMILTON]

They're battering down the Battery check the damages

[MULLIGAN]

Rah!

[HAMILTON]

We gotta stop ‘em and rob ‘em of their advantages

[MULLIGAN]

Rah!

[HAMILTON]

Let's take a stand with the stamina God has granted us

Hamilton won't abandon ship

Yo, let's steal their cannons—

[MULLIGAN & COMPANY]

Shh-boom! (Boom!)

[WASHINGTON]

Goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit spray and…

[COMPANY]

Boom!

[WASHINGTON]

Goes the cannon, we're abandonin' Kips Bay and…

[COMPANY]

Boom!

[WASHINGTON]

There's another ship and…

[COMPANY]

Boom!

[WASHINGTON]

We just lost the southern tip and…

[COMPANY]

Boom!

[WASHINGTON]

We gotta run to Harlem quick, we can't afford another slip

Guns and horses giddyup

I decide to divvy up

My forces, they're skittish as the British cut the city up

This close to giving up, facing mad scrutiny

I scream in the face of this mass mutiny:

Are these the men with which I am to defend America?

We ride at midnight, Manhattan in the distance

I cannot be everywhere at once, people

I'm in dire need of assistance…

[BURR]

Your excellency, sir!

[WASHINGTON]

Who are you?

[BURR]

Aaron Burr, Sir?

Permission to state my case?

[WASHINGTON]

As you were

[BURR]

Sir

I was a captain under General Montgomery

Until he caught a bullet in the neck in Quebec

And well, in summary

I think that I could be of some assistance

I admire how you keep firing on the British

From a distance

[WASHINGTON]

Huh

[BURR]

I have some questions, a couple of suggestions on how to fight instead of fleeing west

[WASHINGTON]

Yes?

[BURR]

Well—

[HAMILTON]

Your excellency, you wanted to see me?

[WASHINGTON]

Hamilton, come in, have you met Burr?

[HAMILTON]

Yes, sir

[HAMILTON & BURR]

We keep meeting

[BURR]

As I was saying, sir, I look forward to seeing your strategy play out

[WASHINGTON]

Burr?

[BURR]

Sir?

[WASHINGTON]

Close the door on your way out

(Burr exits.)

[HAMILTON]

Have I done something wrong, sir?

[WASHINGTON]

On the contrary

I called you here because our odds are beyond scary

Your reputation precedes you, but I have to laugh

[HAMILTON]

Sir?

[WASHINGTON]

Hamilton, how come no one can get you on their staff?

[HAMILTON]

Sir!

[WASHINGTON]

Don't get me wrong, you're a young man of great renown

I know you stole British cannons when we were still downtown

Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox wanted to hire you…

[HAMILTON]

To be their Secretary? I don't think so

[WASHINGTON]

Why're you upset?

[HAMILTON]

I'm not—

[WASHINGTON]

It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hunger

I was just like you when I was younger

Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr?

[HAMILTON]

Yes

[WASHINGTON]

Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder

[HAMILTON]

Why are you telling me this?

[WASHINGTON]

I'm being honest

I'm working with a third of what our Congress has promised

We are a powder keg about to explode

I need someone like you to lighten the load. So?

[COMPANY EXCEPT HAMILTON]

I am not throwin' away my shot!

I am not throwin' away my shot!

Ayo, I'm just like my country, I'm young

Scrappy and hungry!

[HAMILTON]

I am not throwing away my shot!

[WASHINGTON]

Son

[WASHINGTON & COMPANY]

We are outgunned, outmanned!

[HAMILTON]

You need all the help you can get

I have some friends. Laurens, Mulligan

Marquis de Lafayette, okay, what else?

[WASHINGTON & COMPANY]

Outnumbered, outplanned!

[HAMILTON]

We'll need some spies on the inside

Some King's men who might let some things slide

[HAMILTON, COMPANY & ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY/WOMEN]

Boom!

Whoa, whoa, whoa

I'll write to Congress and tell ‘em we need supplies, you rally the guys,

Master the element of surprise

Chicka-boom!

Whoa, whoa, whoa...

I'll rise above my station, organize your information

Whoa, whoa, whoa...

'Til we rise to the occasion of our new nation. Sir!

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[HAMILTON]

Rise up!

[LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]

What?

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[HAMILTON/SCHUYLER SISTERS/WOMEN]

Rise up!

[LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]

What?

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[HAMILTON/SCHUYLER SISTERS]

Rise up!

[LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]

What?

[COMPANY]

Here comes the General!

[HAMILTON]

What?

[WASHINGTON]

And his right hand man!

[COMPANY]

Boom!