Album Cover The Schuyler Sisters

The Schuyler Sisters

Lin-Manuel Miranda

5

[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]

And Peggy!

[COMPANY]

Work, work!

The Schuyler sisters!

[ANGELICA]

Angelica!

[PEGGY]

Peggy!

[ELIZA]

Eliza!

[COMPANY]

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

[SCHUYLER SISTERS AND COMPANY]

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 & COMPANY]

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!

[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY with COMPANY]

Whooaaaaa!

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

[COMPANY]

Unh!

[ANGELICA]

I'm ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel!

[WOMEN]

Work!

[ELIZA]

Look around, look around at how

Lucky we are to be alive right now!

[ELIZA/PEGGY]

Look around, look around at how

Lucky we are to be alive right now!

[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY]

History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be

In the greatest city in the world!

[SCHUYLER SISTERS AND COMPANY]

In the greatest city in the world!

[ANGELICA, ELIZA/PEGGY & MEN]

'Cause 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

The revolution's happening in—

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

[ANGELICA, ELIZA/PEGGY, WOMEN]

You want a revolution? I want a revelation

New York!

Look around, look around, the revolution's happening

In New York!

So listen to my declaration:

[ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY, FEMALE ENSEMBLE, & WOMEN]

We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal

Look around, look around

Hey, hey, hey, hey

Whoo!

At how lucky we are to be alive right now

Hey, hey, hey, hey

[FULL COMPANY]

Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now!

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—

[COMPANY]

In the greatest city in the world!

[COMPANY & ANGELICA]

Work, work! Angelica

[COMPANY, ELIZA, & PEGGY]

Work, work! Eliza

And Peggy!

[COMPANY & ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY]

Work, work!

The Schuyler sisters

Work, work

We're looking for a mind at work

Work, work (Hey)

Work, work (Hey)

Work, work

[COMPANY, ANGELICA, & ELIZA/PEGGY]

Work, work

Whoa!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Work, work

In the greatest city in the world

In the greatest city in the world

[COMPANY]

In the greatest city in the world