Hamilton -Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)- Lyrics
[00:00.00] YORKTOWN (THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN)
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[00:03.00] [COMPANY – ALL]
[00:04.80] The battle of Yorktown. 1781
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[00:09.99] [LAFAYETTE – 4]
[00:10.83] Monsieur Hamilton [HAMILTON – 2]
[00:12.26] Monsieur Lafayette
[00:13.39] In command where you belong
[00:14.39] How you say, no sweat
[00:15.75] We’re finally on the field.
[00:17.00] We’ve had quite a run
[00:18.05] Immigrants:
[00:19.09] We get the job done We get the job done
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[00:21.80] So what happens if we win?
[00:23.15] I go back to France
[00:24.29] I bring freedom to my people
[00:25.53] if I’m given the chance
[00:26.86] We’ll be with you when you do
[00:27.79] Go lead your men
[00:29.15] I'll see you on the other side
[00:30.28] ‘Til we meet again, let’s go…
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[00:31.05] [HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE – ALL]
[00:31.66] I am not throwin’ away my shot!
[00:34.00] I am not throwin’ away my shot!
[00:36.36] Hey yo, I’m just like my country, I’m young
[00:38.23] Scrappy and hungry
[00:39.06] And I’m not throwin’ away my shot!
[00:41.35] I am not throwin’ away my shot!
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[00:43.84] [HAMILTON – 2]
[00:44.04] ‘Til the world turns upside down… [ENSEMLBE – ALL]
[00:46.12] ‘Til the world turns upside down!
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[00:50.37] [HAMILTON – 2]
[00:50.99] I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
[00:53.17] This is where it gets me: on my feet
[00:54.92] The enemy ahead of me
[00:56.37] If this is the end of me, at least I have a friend with me
[00:58.75] Weapon in my hand, a command, and my men with me
[01:01.15] Then I remember my Eliza’s expecting me…
[01:03.85] Not only that, my Eliza’s expecting
[01:06.33] We gotta go, gotta get the job done
[01:08.30] Gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son!
[01:10.70] Take the bullets out your gun! [ENSEMBLE]
[01:11.95] What!?
[01:12.37] The bullets out your gun!
[01:13.08] What!?
[01:13.60] We move under cover and we move as one
[01:15.58] Through the night, we have one shot to live another day
[01:18.08] We cannot let a stray gunshot give us away
[01:20.49] We will fight up close, seize the moment and stay in it
[01:23.09] It’s either that or meet the business end of a bayonet
[01:25.67] The code word is ‘Rochambeau,’ dig me? [ENSEMBLE]
[01:27.64] Rochambeau!
[01:28.47] You have your orders now, go, man, go!
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[01:30.36] And so the American experiment begins
[01:32.86] With my friends all scattered to the winds
[01:34.85] Laurens is in South Carolina, redefining bravery
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[01:38.06] [HAMILTON/LAURENS – 2/5]
[01:38.17] We’ll never be free until we end slavery
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[01:40.35] [HAMILTON – 2]
[01:40.56] When we finally drive the British away
[01:42.43] Lafayette is there waiting—
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[01:43.99] [HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE – 2/4]
[01:44.19] In Chesapeake Bay!
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[01:45.23] [HAMILTON – 2]
[01:45.44] How did we know that this plan would work?
[01:47.31] We had a spy on the inside. That’s right
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[01:48.97] [HAMILTON/COMPANY – ALL]
[01:49.63] Hercules Mulligan!
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[01:51.20] [MULLIGAN – 6]
[01:51.41] A tailor spyin’ on the British government!
[01:52.55] I take their measurements, information and then I smuggle it
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[01:54.94] [COMPANY – ALL]
[01:55.14] Up!
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[01:55.40] [MULLIGAN – 6]
[01:55.68] To my brother’s revolutionary covenant
[01:57.83] I’m runnin’ with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin’ it!
[02:00.65] See, that’s what happens when you up against the ruffians
[02:02.63] We in the shit now, somebody gotta shovel it!
[02:05.13] Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction
[02:07.42] When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!
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[02:16.30] [COMPANY – ALL]
[02:17.04] Left! Right! Hold!
[02:20.68] Go!
[02:21.72] What! What! What!
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[02:38.53] [HAMILTON – 2]
[02:39.81] After a week of fighting, a young man in a red coat stands on a parapet
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[02:44.09] [LAFAYETTE – 4]
[02:44.71] We lower our guns as he frantically waves a white handkerchief
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[02:49.12] [MULLIGAN – 6]
[02:49.54] And just like that, it’s over. We tend to our wounded, we count our dead
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[02:53.50] [LAURENS – 5]
[02:53.95] Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom
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[02:57.19] [WASHINGTON – 7]
[02:57.29] Not. Yet
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[02:58.75] [HAMILTON – 2]
[02:59.37] We negotiate the terms of surrender
[03:01.65] I see George Washington smile
[03:04.05] We escort their men out of Yorktown
[03:06.32] They stagger home single file
[03:08.62] Tens of thousands of people flood the streets
[03:11.53] There are screams and church bells ringing
[03:13.52] And as our fallen foes retreat
[03:16.02] I hear the drinking song they’re singing…
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[03:18.01] [ALL MEN – 1/2/3/4]
[03:18.22] The world turned upside down
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[03:23.00] [FULL COMPANY – ALL]
[03:23.20] The world turned upside down
[03:28.20] The world turned upside down
[03:33.51] The world turned upside down
[03:36.73] Down
[03:37.88] Down,
[03:39.23] Down, [LAFAYETTE – 4]
[03:40.38] Down Freedom for America,
[03:41.93] freedom for France!
[03:42.97] Down,
[03:44.10] Down, [HAMILTON – 2]
[03:45.24] Down Gotta start a new nation
[03:46.70] Gotta meet my son
[03:48.05] Down,
[03:48.99] Down, [MULLIGAN – 6]
[03:50.14] Down We won!
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[03:51.08] [LAFAYETTE – 4]
[03:51.19] We won!
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[03:51.71] [LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS – 4/5/6]
[03:51.92] We won!
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[03:52.44] [HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS/MULLIGAN/WASHINGTON – 2/4/5/6/7]
[03:52.65] We won!
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[03:53.49] [COMPANY – ALL]
[03:53.59] The world turned upside down!
