Guns and Ships

[BURR]

How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower

Somehow defeat a global superpower?

How do we emerge victorious from the quagmire?

Leave the battlefield waving Betsy Ross' flag higher?

Yo. Turns out we have a secret weapon

An immigrant you know and love who's unafraid to step in

He's constantly confusing, confounding the British henchmen

Everyone give it up for America's favorite fightin' Frenchman!

[COMPANY]

Lafayette

[LAFAYETTE]

I'm takin' this horse by the reins

Makin' redcoats redder with bloodstains

[COMPANY]

Lafayette

[LAFAYETTE]

And I'm never gonna stop until I make 'em drop

And burn 'em up and scatter their remains, I'm

[COMPANY]

Lafayette

[LAFAYETTE]

Watch me engagin' em, escapin' em, enragin' em, I'm—

[COMPANY]

Lafayette

[LAFAYETTE]

I go to France for more funds

[COMPANY]

Lafayette

[LAFAYETTE]

I come back with more

[LAFAYETTE & ENSEMBLE]

Guns and ships

And so the balance shifts

[WASHINGTON]

We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts

[LAFAYETTE]

We can end this war in Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but

For this to succeed, there is someone else we need

[WASHINGTON]

I know

[WASHINGTON & COMPANY]

Hamilton

[LAFAYETTE]

Sir, he knows what to do in a trench

Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean—

[WASHINGTON & COMPANY]

Hamilton

[LAFAYETTE]

Sir, you're gonna have to use him eventually

What's he gonna do on the bench? I mean—

[WASHINGTON & COMPANY]

Hamilton

[LAFAYETTE]

No one has more resilience

Or matches my practical tactical brilliance

[WASHINGTON & COMPANY]

Hamilton

[LAFAYETTE]

You want to fight for your land back?

[COMPANY]

Hamilton

[WASHINGTON]

I need my right hand man back

[LAFAYETTE, LAFAYETTE & MEN, WOMEN]

(Hamilton) Yeah, get ya right hand man back

(Hamilton) You know you gotta get ya right hand man back

[LAFAYETTE, MEN, MEN & WOMEN]

(Hamilton) I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter

(Ha-Ha-Hamilton) But the sooner the better

(Hamilton, Ha-Ha—) To get your right hand man back

[WASHINGTON]

Alexander Hamilton

Troops are waiting in the field for you

If you join us right now, together we can turn the tide

Oh, Alexander Hamilton

I have soldiers that will yield for you

If we manage to get this right

They'll surrender by early light

The world will never be the same, Alexander