Guns and Ships
[00:00.00] GUNS AND SHIPS
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[00:02.00] [BURR – 3]
[00:03.09] How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower
[00:07.57] Somehow defeat a global superpower?
[00:10.36] How do we emerge victorious from the quagmire?
[00:13.90] Leave the battlefield waving Betsy Ross’ flag higher?
[00:17.66] Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon!
[00:20.37] An immigrant you know and love who’s unafraid to step in!
[00:24.03] He’s constantly confusin’, confoundin’ the British henchmen
[00:27.79] Ev’ryone give it up for America’s favorite fighting Frenchman!
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[00:31.14] [COMPANY – ALL]
[00:31.24] [LAFAYETTE – 4] Lafayette!
[00:32.29] I’m takin this horse by the reins makin’
[00:34.06] Redcoats redder with bloodstains
[00:34.89] Lafayette!
[00:35.51] And I’m never gonna stop until I make ‘em
[00:36.98] Drop and burn ‘em up and scatter their remains, I’m
[00:38.23] Lafayette!
[00:39.06] Watch me engagin’ em! I’m escapin’ em!
[00:40.61] I’m enragin’ em! Ah!
[00:41.65] Lafayette!
[00:42.49] I go to France for more funds
[00:43.43] Lafayette!
[00:44.05] I come back with more
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[00:45.30] [LAFAYETTE AND ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[00:45.40] Guns
[00:45.93] And ships
[00:46.87] And so the balance shifts
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[00:48.74] [WASHINGTON – 7]
[00:48.95] We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts
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[00:51.74] [LAFAYETTE – 4]
[00:52.16] We can end this war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but
[00:55.69] For this to succeed, there is someone else we need:
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[00:58.59] [WASHINGTON – 7] [WASHINGTON AND
[00:58.86] I know COMPANY – ALL]
[00:59.28] Hamilton!
[00:59.52] [LAFAYETTE – 4]
[00:59.73] Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
[01:01.07] Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean—
[01:02.33] Hamilton!
[01:02.95] Sir, you’re gonna have to use him eventually
[01:04.61] What’s he gonna do on the bench? I mean—
[01:06.29] Hamilton!
[01:06.90] No one has more resilience
[01:07.95] Or matches my practical tactical brilliance—
[01:09.70] Hamilton!
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[01:10.21] [LAFAYETTE – 4]
[01:10.53] You wanna fight for your land back? [COMPANY – ALL]
[01:11.15] Hamilton!
[01:11.99] [WASHINGTON – 7]
[01:12.20] I need my right hand man back! [WOMEN–5/6/8/9]
[01:13.03] Hamilton!
[01:13.76] [LAFAYETTE – 4] [MEN – 1/2/3]
[01:13.87] Ah! Uh, get ya right hand man back Get your right
[01:14.90] Hamilton! hand man back!
[01:15.53] You know you gotta
[01:15.74] Get ya right hand man back Your right hand
[01:15.95] man back!
[01:16.67] I mean you gotta put some thought Hamilton! Hamilton!
[01:17.40] Into the letter but Ha– Ha— Ha– Ha-
[01:18.02] The sooner the better Hamilton, Hamilton,
[01:18.43] To get your right hand man back! Hamilton! Hamilton!
[01:18.85] Ha— ha—! Ha– ha-!
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[01:19.90] [WASHINGTON – 7]
[01:20.10] Alexander Hamilton
[01:23.12] Troops are waiting in the field for you
[01:27.17] If you join us right now, together we can turn the tide
[01:33.93] Oh, Alexander Hamilton
[01:37.58] I have soldiers that will yield for you
[01:41.22] If we manage to get this right
[01:44.51] They’ll surrender by early light
[01:48.04] The world will never be the same, Alexander…
