Right Hand Man
[COMPANY]
British General Howe's got troops on the water...
Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbour...
Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbour...
Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbour...
When they surround the troops, they surround the troops
When they surround the troops...
[HAMILTON]
As a kid of the Caribbean, I wished for a war. I knew that I was poor, I knew it was the only way to...
[LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Rise up!
[HAMILTON]
If they tell my story, I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or...
[LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Rise up!
[HAMILTON]
I will fight for this land, but there's only one man who can give us a command so we can...
[LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Rise up!
[HAMILTON]
Understand it's the only way to...
[LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Rise up! Rise up!
[HAMILTON]
Here he comes...
[COMPANY]
Here comes the General!
[BURR]
Ladies and gentlemen!
[COMPANY]
Here comes the General!
[BURR]
The moment you've been waiting for!
[COMPANY]
Here comes the General!
[BURR]
The pride of Mount Vernon!
[COMPANY]
Here comes the!
[BURR]
George Washington!
[WASHINGTON]
We are outgunned...
[COMPANY]
What?
[WASHINGTON]
Outmanned...
[COMPANY]
What?
[WASHINGTON]
Outnumbered, outplanned...
[COMPANY]
Buckbuckbuckbuck!
[WASHINGTON]
We've gotta make an all out stand. Hey yo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man!
[COMPANY]
Buckbuckbuckbuck!
[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, writing letters to relatives, embellishing my elegance and eloquence. But! The elephant is in the room, the troop is in your face, when you hear the British cannons go...
[COMPANY]
Boom!
[WASHINGTON]
Every 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, we are outgunned!
[COMPANY]
What?
[WASHINGTON]
Outmanned...
[COMPANY]
What?
[WASHINGTON]
Outnumbered, outplanned...
[COMPANY]
Buckbuckbuckbuck!
[WASHINGTON]
We've gotta make an all out stand. Hey yo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man! Incoming!
[HAMILTON]
The battery, down the battery, check the damages...
[MULLIGAN]
Brah!
[HAMILTON]
We've gotta stop 'em and rob 'em of their advantages...
[MULLIGAN]
Brah!
[HAMILTON]
Let's take a stand with the stamina God has granted us. Hamilton won't abandon ship, yo, let's steal their cannons!
[COMPANY]
Shaboom!
[WASHINGTON]
Goes the cannon, watch the blood and the s**t spray and...
[COMPANY]
Boom!
[WASHINGTON]
Goes the cannon, we're abandoning Kips Bay and...
[COMPANY]
Boom!
[WASHINGTON]
There goes another ship and...
[COMPANY]
Boom!
[WASHINGTON]
Just on the Southern tip and...
[COMPANY]
Boom!
[WASHINGTON]
We've got 'em on the Harlem quick, we can't afford another slip! Guns and horses giddy up, I decide to divvy up, my forces are skittish as the British cut the city up! This close to giving up, facing mass 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 am 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 believe I can be of some assistance. I admire how you keep firing at 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?
[HAMILTON]
Your Excellency, you wanted to see me?
[WASHINGTON]
Hamilton, come in. Have you met Burr?
[HAMILTON/BURR]
Yes, sir. 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...
[HAMILTON]
Have I done something wrong, sir?
[WASHINGTON]
On the contrary. I've 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 heard you stole British cannons while we were still downtown. Nathaniel Greene and Henry Knox wanted to hire you!
[HAMILTON]
To be their Secretary. I don't think so.
[WASHINGTON]
Then why are you upset?
[HAMILTON]
I'm not!
[WASHINGTON]
It's alright you want to fight, you have a hunger. I was just like you when I was younger. Head full of fantasies of dying 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, we're 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]
I am not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot. Hey yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry...
[HAMILTON]
I am not throwing away my shot!
[WASHINGTON]
Son, we are...
[COMPANY]
Outgunned, outmanned!
[HAMILTON]
You need all the help you can get. I have some friends, Laurens, Mulligan, Marquis de Lafayette. Ok, what else?
[COMPANY]
Outnumbered, outplanned!
[HAMILTON]
We need some spies on the inside. Some kingsmen who might let some things slide.
[COMPANY]
Boom!
[HAMILTON]
We'll write to Congress and tell 'em we need supplies, we'll rally the guys, master the element of surprise...
[COMPANY]
Chika-boom!
[HAMILTON]
I'll rise above my station, organise your information, till we rise to the occasion of our new nation, sir!
[COMPANY]
Here comes the general!
Rise up! What?
Here comes the general!
Rise up! What?
Here comes the general!
Rise up! What?
Here comes the general!
[WASHINGTON]
And his right-hand man!
[COMPANY]
Boom!