One last round gentlemen
Everybody!
BURR: Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?
AARON BURR: How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman
Dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean
By providence, impoverished, in squalor grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
JOHN LAURENS: The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
Got a lot farther by workin' a lot harder
By bein' a lot smarter by bein' a self-starter
By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
THOMAS JEFFERSON: And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away
Across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter
JAMES MADISON: Then a hurricane came and devastation reigned
Our man saw his future drip, drippin' down the drain
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
And he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain
BURR: Well the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man!"
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came,
and the world's gonna know your name! What's your name, man?"
ALEXANDER HAMILTON: Alexander Hamilton
My name is Alexander Hamilton
And there's a million things I haven't done My name is Alexander Hamilton
And there's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait, just you wait
ELIZA SCHUYLAR: When he was ten, his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
Two years later, see Alex and his mother, bed-ridden
Half-dead, sittin' in their own sick The scent thick
And Alex got better but his mother went quick
GEORGE WASHINGTON: Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, somethin' new inside
A voice saying "Alex you gotta fend for yourself"
He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf
BURR: There would've been nothin' left to do For someone less astute
He would've been dead or destitute Without a cent of restitution
Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
Tradin' sugar cane and rum and other things he can't afford
(Scammin') for every book he can get his hands on
(Plannin') for the future, see him now as he stands on (oooh)
The bow of a ship headed for a new land
In New York you can be a new man
HAMILTON: Just you wait
In New York you can be a new man
In New York! New York!
HAMILTON: Just you wait!
Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)
You could never back down You never learned to take your time!
Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
When America sings for you
Will they know what you overcame? Will they know you rewrote the game?
The world will never be the same, oh
BURR: The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him
Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom
His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him
MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON: We fought with him!
LAURENS: Me? I died for him!
WASHINGTON: Me? I trusted him!
SCHUYLAR SISTERS: Me? I loved him
BURR: And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him!
There's a million things I haven't done But just you wait
BURR: What's your name, man?
Alexander Hamilton!
1776
New York City
HAMILTON: Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?
BURR: That depends, who's asking?
HAMILTON: Oh well sure, sir
I'm Alexander Hamilton I'm at your service, sir
I have been looking for you
BURR: I'm getting nervous
HAMILTON: Sir, I heard your name at Princeton
I was seeking an accelerated course of study
When I got sort out of sorts with a buddy of yours
I may have punched him It's a blur, sir
He handles the financials--
BURR: You punched the bursar?
HAMILTON: Yes, I wanted to do what you did
Graduate in two, then join the revolution
He looked at me like I was stupid I'm not stupid
So how'd you do it? How'd you graduate so fast?
BURR: It was my parents' dying wish before they passed
HAMILTON: You're an orphan! Of course!
I'm an orphan God, I wish there was a war!
Then we could prove that we're worth more Than anyone bargained for
BURR: Can I buy you a drink?
HAMILTON: That would be nice
BURR: While we're talking, let me offer you some free advice
Talk less
HAMILTON: What?
BURR: Smile more
HAMILTON: Ha
BURR: Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for
HAMILTON: You can't be serious
BURR: You want to get ahead?
HAMILTON: Yes
BURR: Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead
LAURENS: Yo yo yo yo yo! What time is it?
LAURENS, MULLIGAN: Showtime!
BURR: ...like I said...
LAURENS: Showtime! Showtime! Yo!
I'm John Laurens in the place to be!
Uh, two pints o' Sam Adams, but I'm working on three, uh!
Those redcoats don't want it with me
Cause I will pop chick-a-pop these cops 'til I'm free!
LAFAYETTE: Ah oui oui, mon ami, je m'appelle Lafayette!
The Lancelot of the revolutionary set!
I came from afar just to say "Bonsoir!"
Tell the king, "Casse-toi!" Who's the best? C'est moi!
MULLIGAN: Brrrah, brraaah! I am Hercules Mulligan
Up in it, lovin' it Yes I heard your mother say "come again?"
Lock up your daughters and horses
Of course it's hard to have intercourse over four sets of corsets
LAURENS: No more sex
Pour me another brew, son! Let's raise a couple more
LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN: To the revolution!
LAURENS: Well if it ain't the prodigy of Princeton College
MULLIGAN: Aaron Burr
LAURENS: Give us a verse, drop some knowledge
BURR: Good luck with that You're takin' a stand
You spit, I'mma sit We'll see where we land
LAURENS: Burr, the revolution's imminent What do you stall for?
HAMILTON: If you stand for nothing, Burr, what'll you fall for?
LAURENS, MULLIGAN, LAFAYETTE: Oooh
LAURENS: Who are you?
MULLIGAN: Who are you?
LAFAYETTE: Who are you?
Who, who is this kid? What's he gonna do?
HAMILTON: I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot!
I'mma get scholarship to King's College
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish
The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish
I gotta holler just to be heard With every word I drop knowledge
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable
Only nineteen, but my mind is older
These New York City streets getting colder, I shoulder
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage I have learned to manage
I don't have a gun to brandish I walk these streets famished
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out my name
I am the-- A-L, E-X, A-N, D
E-R--we are--meant to be
HAMILTON: A colony that runs independently
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free
So there will be a revolution in this century
Enter Me!
LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN: (He says in parentheses)
HAMILTON: Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy
And 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 & LAURENS: And I'm not throwing away my shot
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE: I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot It's time to take a shot!
LAFAYETTE: I dream of life without the monarchy
The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"
"Onarchy?" How you say, how you s--Oh, anarchy!
When I fight I make the other side panicky
With my Shot!
MULLIGAN: Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance
To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants
I'm gonna take a Shot!
LAURENS: Eh, but we'll never be truly free
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
You and I, do or die, wait till I sally in on a stallion
With the first black battalion
Have another Shot!
BURR: Geniuses, lower your voices
You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices
I'm with you, but the situation is fraught
You've got to be carefully taught: If you talk, you're gonna get shot!
HAMILTON: Burr, check what we got
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
I think your pants look hot Laurens, I like you a lot
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot I think your pants look hot Laurens, I like you a lot
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is
Oh, am I talkin' too loud?
Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth
I never had a group of friends before I promise that I'll make y'all proud
LAURENS: Let's get this guy in front of a crowd!
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
And I'm not throwing away my shot
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
And I'm not throwing away my shot
LAURENS and (HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN): Everybody sing
Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
Hey Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
Wooh!! Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
Sing let 'em hear ya (Yeah)
Let's go! (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
I said, shout it to the rooftops (Wo-oh-oh)
Said to the rooftops (Wo-oh-oh)
Now come on (Yeah)
Now come on, let's go
Rise up
When you're living on your knees, you rise up
Tell your brother that he's got to rise up
Tell your sister that she's got to rise up
When are these colonies gonna rise up
Rise up!
HAMILTON: I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When's it's gonna get me? In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come from some get half as many
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty
Scratch that This is not a moment, it's the movement
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
We roll like Moses, claimin' our Promised Land
And? If we win our independence?
Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
I know the action in the street is excitin'
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin' I've been readin' 'n writin'
We need to handle our financial situation
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?
I'm past patiently waitin'! I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
Every action's an act of creation
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow
And I am not throwin' away my shot I am not throwin' away my shot
Hey, yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
We gonna rise up time to take a shot (Not thrown' away my shot)
We gonna rise up; time to take a shot (Not throwin' away my shot)
We gonna (rise up, rise up) It's time to take a shot
(Rise up, rise up) It's time to take a shot
(Rise up, rise up) (Wo-oah) Time to take a shot (rise up)
Take a shot, a shot, a shot, (Oh-Oh, oh)
A-yo, it's time to take a shot (Woah, oh-oh oh)
Time to take a shot (Woah-oh)
And I am (And I am) Not throwing away my
Not throwing away my shot!
HAMILTON: I may not live to see our glory
LAURENS, MULLIGAN, & LAFAYETTE: I may not live to see our glory
HAMILTON: But I will gladly join the fight
LAURENS, MULLIGAN, & LAFAYETTE: But I will gladly join the fight
HAMILTON: And when our children tell our story
LAURENS, MULLIGAN, & LAFAYETTE: And when our children tell our story
HAMILTON: They'll tell the story of tonight
MULLIGAN: Let's have another round tonight
LAFAYETTE: Let's have another round tonight
HAMILTON: Let's have another round tonight
LAURENS: Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away No matter what they tell you
Raise a glass to the four of us
LAURENS and MULLIGAN: Tomorrow there'll be more of us
LAURENS, MULLIGAN, & LAFAYETTE: Telling the story of tonight
HAMILTON: They'll tell the story of tonight
MULLIGAN, LAURENS, & LAFAYETTE: Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
HAMILTON: No matter what they tell you
MULLIGAN & LAFAYETTE: Let's have another round tonight
LAURENS: Raise a glass to the four of us
MULLIGAN, LAURENS, & LAFAYETTE: Tomorrow there'll be more of us
HAMILTON & LAURENS: Telling the story of tonight
MULLIGAN & LAFAYETTE: Let's have another round tonight
HAMILTON, LAURENS: They'll tell the story of tonight
LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN: Raise a glass to freedom
HAMILTON, LAURENS: They'll tell the story of tonight
LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN: Raise a glass to freedom
HAMILTON, LAURENS: They'll tell the story of tonight
LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN: They'll tell the story of
Tonight
BURR: There's nothing rich folks love more
Than going downtown and slumming it with the poor
They pull up in their carriages and gawk
At the students in the common Just to watch 'em 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
(Work, work) ANGELICA: Angelica!
(Work, work) ELIZA: Eliza!
PEGGY: And Peggy! (Work, work)
The Schuyler sisters!
ANGELICA: Angelica!
PEGGY: Peggy!
ELIZA: Eliza! (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
Angelica 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: Look around, look around--
ELIZA: Angelica, remind me what we're looking for
ALL MEN: She's looking for me!
ANGELICA: Eliza, I'm looking for a mind at work (work, work)
I'm looking for a mind at work (work, work)
Woa-oah, woa-oah Work!
BURR: Ooh, there's nothing like summer in the city
Someone in a rush next to someone looking 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: Ahh, 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:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal"
And when I meet Thomas Jefferson I'mma compel him to include women in the sequel
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
ANGELICA, ELIZA & PEGGY: History is happening in Manhattan and we
Just happen to be in the greatest city in the world
In the greatest city in the world!
Cause 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
We hold these truths to be self evident That all men are created equal
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
In the greatest city in the world (in the greatest city)
In the greatest city in the world!
ANGELICA: (Work, work) Angelica!
ELIZA: (Work, work) Eliza!
PEGGY: And Peggy! (Work, work)
ALL SISTERS: The Schuyler sisters! (Work, work)
We're looking for a mind at work (work, work)
Hey (work, work) Woah-ah! (work, work)
ELIZA & PEGGY (COMPANY): Hey (work, work)
In the greatest city
ALL SISTERS: In the greatest city in the world!
SEABURY: Hear ye, hear ye!
My name is Samuel Seabury, and I present
"Free thoughts on the proceedings of the Continental Congress!"
Heed not the rabble who scream revolution They have not your interest at heart
MULLIGAN: Oh my god. Tear this dude apart
SEABURY: Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution
Don't let them lead you astray
This congress does not speak for me
BURR: Let him be
SEABURY: They're playing a dangerous game
I pray the king shows you his mercy For shame, for shame!
HAMILTON: Yo!
(Heed not the rabble who) He'd have you all unravel
(Scream--) At the sound of screams
(Revolution--) But the revolution is comin'
(They have not your interests) The have-nots are gonna win this
(At heart--) It's hard to listen to you
with a straight face
(Chaos and bloodshed--) Chaos and bloodshed
(Are not--) Already haunt us
(A solution--) Honestly, you shouldn't even talk--
(Don't let them lead you astray--) And what about Boston?
Look at the cost of all that we've lost And you talk about Congress?
SEABURY: This Congress does not speak for me
HAMILTON: My dog speaks more eloquently than thee
SEABURY: You're playing a dangerous game
HAMILTON: But strangely, your mange is the same!
SEABURY: I pray the king shows you his mercy
HAMILTON: Is he in Jersey?
SEABURY: For shame--
HAMILTON: For the Revolution!
SEABURY: For shame!
For the Revolution!
SEABURY: Heed--
If you repeat yourself again I'm gonna (Scream--)
Honestly, look at me, please don't read! (Not your interest--)
Don't modulate the key then not debate with me
Why should a tiny island across the sea Regulate the price of tea?
BURR: Alexander, please!
HAMILTON: Burr, I'd rather be divisive than indecisive Drop the niceties
Silence! A message from the King! A message from the King!
You say the price of my love's not a price that you're willing to pay
You cry in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by
Why so sad? Remember we made an arrangement when you went away
Now you're making me mad
Remember despite our estrangement, I'm your man
You'll be back Soon you'll see
You'll remember you belong to me
You'll be back Time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove,
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
You say our love is draining and you can't go on
You'll be the one complaining when I am gone
And, no! don't change the subject 'Cause you're my favorite subject
My sweet, submissive subject My loyal, royal subject
Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever
You'll be back Like before
I will fight the fight and win the war
For your love For your praise
And I'll love you till my dying days
When you're gone, I'll go mad So don't throw away this thing we had
'Cause when push comes to shove
I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love
British Admiral Howe's got troops on the water
Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor
When they surround our troops! They surround our troops!
HAMILTON: As a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war
I knew that I was poor I knew it was the only way to--
Rise up!
HAMILTON: If they tell my story
I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or--
Rise up!
HAMILTON: We will fight for this land
But there's only one man Who can give us a command so we can--
Rise up!
HAMILTON: Understand? It's the only way to--
Rise up! Rise up!
HAMILTON: Here he comes!
Here comes the General!
BURR: Ladies and gentlemen!
(Here comes the General!) The moment you've been waiting for!
(Here comes the General!) The pride of Mount Vernon!
(Here comes the General!) George Washington!
WASHINGTON: We are outgunned! (What?)
Outmanned! (What?)
Outnumbered, outplanned!
We gotta make an all out stand
Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man.
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 Writin' letters to relatives
Embellishin' my elegance and eloquence But the elephant is in the room
The truth is in ya face when ya hear the British cannons go--
Boom!
Any 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! (What?)
Outmanned! (What?)
Outnumbered, outplanned!
We gotta make an all out stand
Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man
Incoming!
HAMILTON: They're battering down the Battery check the damages
We gotta stop 'em and rob 'em of their advantages
Let's take a stand with the stamina God has granted us
Hamilton won't abandon ship Yo, let's steal their cannons--
Shh-boom! (Boom!)
WASHINGTON: Goes the cannon
Watch the blood and the shit spray and-- (Boom!)
Goes the cannon, we're abandonin' Kips Bay and-- (Boom!)
There's another ship and-- (Boom!)
We just lost the southern tip and-- (Boom!)
We gotta run to Harlem quick, we can't afford another slip
Guns and horses giddyup I decide to divvy up my forces
They're skittish as the British cut the city up
This close to giving up, facing mad 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'm 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 think that I could be of some assistance
I admire how you keep firing on 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? BURR: Well--
HAMILTON: Your excellency, you wanted to see me?
WASHINGTON: Hamilton, come in, have you met Burr?
HAMILTON: Yes, sir
HAMILTON & BURR: 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 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 know you stole British cannons when we were still downtown
Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox wanted to hire you...
HAMILTON: To be their Secretary? I don't think so
WASHINGTON: Why're you upset?
HAMILTON: I'm not--
WASHINGTON: It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hunger
I was just like you when I was younger
Head full of fantasies of dyin' 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
I'm 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?
I am not throwin' away my shot! I am not throwin' away my shot!
Ayo, I'm just like my country, I'm young Scrappy and hungry!
HAMILTON: I am not throwing away my shot!
WASHINGTON: Son, we are outgunned, outmanned!
HAMILTON: You need all the help you can get
I have some friends. Laurens, Mulligan Marquis de Lafayette, okay, what else?
WASHINGTON: Outnumbered, outplanned!
HAMILTON: We'll need some spies on the inside
Some King's men who might let some things slide
(Boom!) I'll write to Congress and tell 'em we need supplies
You rally the guys, master the element of surprise
(Chicka-boom!) I'll rise above my station, organize your information
'til we rise to the occasion of our new nation. Sir!
Here comes the General!
HAMILTON: Rise up! (What?)
Here comes the General!
HAMILTON: Rise up! (What?)
Here comes the General!
HAMILTON: Rise up! (What?)
Here comes the General!
WASHINGTON: And his right hand man!
Boom!
BURR: How does the bastard, orphan,
Son of a whore go on and on Grow into more of a phenomenon?
Watch this obnoxious, arrogant, loudmouth bother
Be seated at the right hand of the father
Washington hires Hamilton right on sight But Hamilton still wants to fight, not write
Now Hamilton's skill with a quill is undeniable But what do we have in common?
We're reliable with the Ladies!
BURR: There are so many to deflower!
Ladies!
BURR: Looks! Proximity to power
Ladies!
BURR: They delighted and distracted him
Martha Washington named her feral tomcat after him!
HAMILTON: That's true
1780
BURR: A winter's ball
And the Schuyler sisters are the envy of all Yo, if you can marry a sister, you're rich, son
HAMILTON: Is it a question of if, Burr, or which one?
ELIZA: Ohh, I do I do I do I dooo
Hey! Ohh, I do I do I do I dooo!
Boy you got me helpless!
Look into your eyes, and the sky's the limit I'm helpless!
Down for the count, and I'm drownin' in 'em
ELIZA: I have never been the type to try and grab the spotlight
We were at a revel with some rebels on a hot night
Laughin' at my sister as she's dazzling the room
Then you walked in and my heart went "Boom!"
Tryin' to catch your eye from the side of the ballroom
Everybody's dancin' and the band's top volume
Grind to the rhythm as we wine and dine
Grab my sister, and whisper, "Yo, this one's mine."
My sister made her way across the room to you
And I got nervous, thinking "What's she gonna do?"
She grabbed you by the arm, I'm thinkin' "I'm through"
Then you look back at me and suddenly I'm helpless!
Oh, look at those eyes (Look into your eyes)
(And the sky's the limit) I'm helpless
I know (Down for the count and I'm drownin in 'em)
(I'm helpless!) I'm so into you
(Look into your eyes and the sky's the limit) I am so into you
I'm helpless! I know I'm
Down for the count And I'm drownin' in 'em.
HAMILTON: Where are you taking me?
ANGELICA: I'm about to change your life
HAMILTON: Then by all means, lead the way
ELIZA: Elizabeth Schuyler. It's a pleasure to meet you
HAMILTON: Schuyler?
ANGELICA: My sister
ELIZA: Thank you for all your service
HAMILTON: If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it
ANGELICA: I'll leave you to it
ELIZA: One week later I'm writing a letter nightly
Now my life gets better, every letter that you write me
Laughin' at my sister, cuz she wants to form a harem
ANGELICA: I'm just sayin', if you really loved me, you would share him
ELIZA: Ha!
Two weeks later In the living room stressin'
My father's stone-faced While you're asking for his blessin'
I'm dying inside, as you wine and dine
And I'm tryin' not to cry 'cause there's nothing that your mind can't do
My father makes his way across the room to you
I panic for a second, thinking "we're through"
But then he shakes your hand and says "be true"
And you turn back to me, smiling, and I'm (Helpless)
(Look into your eyes and the sky's the limit I'm)
Helpless! (Helpless)
(Down for the count And I'm drownin' in 'em)
(Helpless) That boy
is mine (Look into your eyes and the sky's the limit)
(I'm helpless!) Helpless
Down for the count And I'm drownin' in 'em
HAMILTON: Eliza, I don't have a dollar to my name
An acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame
All I have's my honor, a tolerance for pain
A couple of college credits and my top-notch brain
Insane, your family brings out a different side of me
Peggy confides in me, Angelica tried to take a bite of me
No stress, my love for you is never in doubt
We'll get a little place in Harlem and we'll figure it out
I've been livin' without a family since I was a child
My father left, my mother died, I grew up buckwild
But I'll never forget my mother's face, that was real
And long as I'm alive, Eliza, swear to God You'll never feel so--
(Helpless!) ELIZA: I do I do I do I do!
HAMILTON: Eliza... (Helpless!)
ELIZA: I do I do I do I do! HAMILTON: I've never felt so--
(Helpless) ELIZA: Hey, yeah, yeah!
(Down for the count)
I'm down for the count I'm-- (And I'm drownin' in 'em)
(Helpless) HAMILTON: My life is gon' be fine cuz Eliza's in it
I look into your eyes, and the sky's the limit I'm--
(Helpless! Down for the count and I'm)
drownin' in 'em
In New York, you can be a new man...
ELIZA: Helpless
LAURENS: Alright, alright. That's what I'm talkin' about!
Now everyone give it up for the maid of honor, Angelica Schuyler!
ANGELICA: A toast to the groom! (To the groom!)
To the bride! (To the bride!)
From your sister, (Angelica)
Who is always by your side. (By your side!)
To your union, (To the union! To the revolution!)
and the hope that you provide. (You provide!)
May you always... (Always–)
be satisfied. (Rewind–)
I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.
I remember those soldier boys tripping over themselves to win our praise.
I remember that dreamlike candlelight like a dream that you can't quite place,
but Alexander, I'll never forget the first time I saw your face.
I have never been the same, Intelligent eyes in a hunger-pang frame,
And when you said "Hi," I forgot my dang name, set my heart aflame, ev'ry part aflame,
This is not a game...
HAMILTON: You strike me as a woman who has never been satisfied.
ANGELICA: I'm sure I don't know what you mean. You forget yourself.
HAMILTON: You're like me. I'm never satisfied.
ANGELICA: Is that right?
HAMILTON: I have never been satisfied.
ANGELICA: My name is Angelica Schuyler.
HAMILTON: Alexander Hamilton.
ANGELICA: Where's your fam'ly from?
HAMILTON: Unimportant. There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait, just you wait...
ANGELICA: So so so--
So this is what it feels like to match wits with someone at your level!
What the hell is the catch? It's the feeling of freedom,
of seein' the light, it's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite!
You see it, right? The conversation lasted two minutes,
maybe three minutes, ev'rything we said in total agreement,
it's a dream and it's a bit of a dance, a bit of a posture, it's a bit of a stance.
He's a bit of a flirt, but I'm 'a give it a chance.
I asked about his fam'ly, did you see his answer?
His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance?
He's penniless, he's flying by the seat of his pants.
Handsome, boy, does he know it! Peach fuzz, and he can't even grow it!
I wanna take him far away from this place, then I turn and see my sister's face and she is...
ELIZA: Helpless...
ANGELICA: And I know she is...
ELIZA: Helpless...
ANGELICA: And her eyes are just...
ELIZA: Helpless...
ANGELICA: And I realize
Three fundamental truths at the exact same time...
HAMILTON Where are you taking me?
ANGELICA I'm about to change your life.
HAMILTON Then by all means, lead the way.
(Number one!) ANGELICA: I'm a girl in a world in which my only job is to marry rich.
My father has no sons so I'm the one who has to social climb for one,
so I'm the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in New York City is insidious,
And Alexander is penniless, Ha! That doesn't mean I want him any less.
ELIZA: Elizabeth Schuyler. It's a pleasure to meet you.
HAMILTON: Schuyler? ANGELICA: My sister!
(Number two!) ANGELICA: He's after me cuz I'm a Schuyler sister. HAMILTON: Schuyler? ANGELICA: My sister!
(Number two!) ANGELICA: He's after me cuz I'm a Schuyler sister.
That elevates his status, I'd have to be naïve to set that aside,
maybe that is why I introduce him to Eliza, now that's his bride.
Nice going, Angelica, he was right, You will never be satisfied.
ELIZA: Thank you for all your service.
HAMILTON: If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.
ANGELICA I'll leave you to it.
(Number three!) ANGELICA: I know my sister like I know my own mind
you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.
If I tell her that I love him she'd be silently resigned, he'd be mine.
She would say, "I'm fine" She'd be lying.
But when I fantasize at night it's Alexander's eyes,
as I romanticize what might have been if I hadn't sized him up so quickly.
At least my dear Eliza's his wife; at least I keep his eyes in my life...
To the groom! (To the groom!)
To the bride! (To the bride!)
From your sister, (Angelica)
Who is always by your side. (By your side)
To your union, (To the union! To the revolution!)
and the hope that you provide. (You provide!)
May you always (Always–)
be satisfied. (be satisfied)
And I know (be satisfied)
She'll be happy as his bride
And I know
He will never be satisfied I will never be satisfied
LAURENS: I may not live to see our glory!
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE: I may not live to see our glory!
LAURENS But I've seen wonders great and small.
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE: I've seen wonders great and small.
LAURENS: Cuz if the tomcat can get married,
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE: If Alexander can get married-
LAURENS: There's hope for our ass, after all!
LAFAYETTE: Raise a glass to freedom.
LAURENS/MULLIGAN: Hey! Something you will never see again!
MULLIGAN: No matter what she tells you.
LAFAYETTE: Let's have another round tonight!
LAURENS Raise a glass to the four of us!
LAFAYETTE/HAMILTON: Ho!
MULLIGAN: To the newly not poor of us!
LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/HAMILTON: Woo!
LAFAYETTE: We'll tell the story of tonight.
LAURENS: Let's have another round-
HAMILTON: Well, if it isn't Aaron Burr.
BURR: Sir!
HAMILTON: I didn't think that you would make it.
BURR: To be sure.
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE: Burr!
BURR: I came to say congratulations.
MULLIGAN: Spit a verse, Burr!
BURR: I see the whole gang is here.
LAFAYETTE: You are the worst, Burr!
HAMILTON: Ignore them. Congrats to you, Lieutenant Colonel.
I wish I had your command instead of manning George's journal.
BURR: No, you don't.
HAMILTON: Yes, I do.
BURR: Now, be sensible.
From what I hear, you've made yourself indispensable.
LAURENS: Well, well, I heard
You've got a special someone on the side, Burr.
HAMILTON: Is that so?
LAURENS: What are you tryin' to hide, Burr?
BURR: I should go.
HAMILTON: No, these guys should go.
LAFAYETTE: What? LAURENS: No!
HAMILTON: Leave us alone.
MULLIGAN: Man...
HAMILTON: It's alright, Burr.
I wish you'd brought this girl with you tonight, Burr.
BURR: You're very kind, but I'm afraid it's unlawful, sir.
HAMILTON: What do you mean?
BURR: She's married.
HAMILTON: I see.
BURR: She's married to a British officer.
HAMILTON: Oh shit...
BURR: Congrats again, Alexander. Smile more.
I'll see you on the other side of the war.
HAMILTON: I will never understand you.
If you love this woman, go get here! What are you waiting for?
BURR: I'll see you on the other side of the war.
HAMILTON: I'll see you on the other side of the war.
BURR Theodosia writes me a letter ev'ry day.
I'm keeping her bed warm while her husband is away.
He's on the British side of Georgia. He's tryin' to keep the colonies in line.
Well he can keep all of Georgia. Theodosia, she's mine.
Love doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints,
it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep loving anyway.
We laugh and we cry and we break and we make our mistakes.
And if there's a reason I'm by her side when so many have tried
then I'm willing to wait for it. I'm willing to wait for it.
My grandfather was a fire of brimstone preacher,
But there are things that the homilies and hymns won't teach ya.
My mother was a genius
My father commanded respect.
When they died they left no instructions. Just a legacy to protect.
Death doesn't discriminate Between the sinners and the saints,
it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep living anyway.
We rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes.
And if there's a reason I'm still alive when everyone who loves me has died
I'm willing to wait for it. I'm willing to wait for it.
Wait for it! (Wait for it)
I am the one thing in life I can control (Wait for it!)
I am inimitable, I am an original (Wait for it)
I'm not falling behind or running late (Wait for it)
I'm not standing still, I am lying in wait (Wait)
Hamilton faces an endless uphill climb (Climb)
He has something to prove He has nothing to lose (Lose)
Hamilton's pace is relentless he wastes no time (Time)
What's it like in his shoes? Hamilton doesn't hesitate.
He exhibits no restraint. He takes and he takes and he takes
And he keeps winning anyway. He changes the game.
He plays and he raises the stakes.
And if there's a reason he seems to thrive when so few survive,
then Goddamnit I'm willing to wait for it. (Wait for it)
I'm willing to wait for it...
Life doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints
it takes and it takes and it takes
We rise. We fall.
And if there's a reason I'm still alive When so many others have died,
then I'm willin' to-
Wait for it (Wait for it)
ELIZA: Stay alive...
ELIZA/ANGELICA: Stay alive...
HAMILTON: I have never seen the General so despondent
I have taken over writing all his correspondence
Congress writes, "George, attack the British forces."
I shoot back, we have resorted to eating our horses
Local merchants deny us equipment, assistance
They only take British money, so sing a song of sixpence
WASHINGTON: The cavalry's not coming
HAMILTON: But, sir!
WASHINGTON: Alex, listen. There's only one way for us to win this
Provoke outrage, outright
HAMILTON: That's right
WASHINGTON: Don't engage, strike by night
Remain relentless 'til their troops take flight
HAMILTON: Make it impossible to justify the cost of the fight
WASHINGTON: Outrun HAMILTON: Outrun
WASHINGTON: Outlast HAMILTON: Outlast
WASHINGTON: Hit 'em quick, get out fast
HAMILTON: Chick-a-plao!
WASHINGTON: Stay alive 'til this horror show is past
We're gonna fly a lot of flags half-mast
HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE: Raise a glass!
MULLIGAN: I go back to New York and my apprenticeship
LAFAYETTE: I ask for French aid, I pray that France has sent a ship
LAURENS: I stay at work with Hamilton We write essays against slavery
And every day's a test of our camaraderie and bravery
HAMILTON: We cut supply lines, we steal contraband
We pick and choose our battles and places to take a stand
And ev'ry day "Sir, entrust me with a command,"
And ev'ry day WASHINGTON: No
HAMILTON: He dismisses me out of hand
HAMILTON: Instead of me he promotes Charles Lee
Makes him second-in-command. LEE: I'm a General. Whee!!!!
HAMILTON: Yeah. He's not the choice I would have gone with
HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE: He shits the bed at the Battle of Monmouth
WASHINGTON: Ev'ryone attack! LEE: Retreat!
WASHINGTON: Attack! LEE: Retreat! WASHINGTON: Ev'ryone attack! LEE: Retreat!
WASHINGTON: Attack! LEE: Retreat!
WASHINGTON: What are you doing, Lee? Get back on your feet!
LEE: But there's so many of them!
WASHINGTON: I'm sorry, is this not your speed?!
Hamilton! HAMILTON: Ready, sir!
WASHINGTON: Have Lafayette take the lead!
HAMILTON: Yes, sir!
LAURENS: A thousand soldiers die in a hundred degree heat
LAFAYETTE: As we snatch a stalemate from the jaws of defeat
HAMILTON: Charles Lee was left behind without a pot to piss in
He started sayin' this to anybody who would listen:
LEE: Washington cannot be left alone to his devices
Indecisive, from crisis to crisis
The best thing he can do for the revolution
Is turn n' go back to plantin' tobacco in Mount Vernon
WASHINGTON: Don't do a thing. History will prove him wrong
HAMILTON: But, sir!
WASHINGTON: We have a war to fight, let's move along
LAURENS: Strong words from Lee, someone oughta hold him to it
HAMILTON: I can't disobey direct orders
LAURENS: Then I'll do it
Alexander, you're the closest friend I've got
HAMILTON: Laurens, do not throw away your shot
One, two, three, four Five, six, seven, eight, nine...
BURR/HAMILTON/LAURENS/LEE: It's the Ten Duel Commandments
(Number one!) LAURENS: The challenge: demand satisfaction
If they apologize, no need for further action
(Number two!) If they don't, grab a friend, that's your second
HAMILTON: Your lieutenant when there's reckoning to be reckoned
(Number three!) LEE: Have your seconds meet face to face
BURR: Negotiate a peace...
HAMILTON: Or negotiate a time and place
BURR: This is commonplace, 'specially 'tween recruits
Most disputes die, and no one shoots Number four!
LAURENS: If they don't reach a peace, that's alright
Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site.
HAMILTON: You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility
BURR: You have him turn around so he can have deniability
(Five!) LEE: Duel before the sun is in the sky
Pick a place to die where it's high and dry Number six!
HAMILTON: Leave a note for your next of kin
Tell 'em where you been. Pray that hell or heaven lets you in.
(Seven!) LEE: Confess your sins.
Ready for the moment of adrenaline when you finally face your opponent
(Number eight!) LAURENS/LEE/HAMILTON/BURR: Your last chance to negotiate
Send in your seconds, see if they can set the record straight.
BURR: Alexander HAMILTON: Aaron Burr, sir
BURR: Can we agree that duels are dumb and immature?
HAMILTON: Sure, but your man has to answer for his words, Burr
BURR: With his life? We both know that's absurd, sir
HAMILTON: Hang on, how many men died because Lee was inexperienced and ruinous?
BURR: Okay, so we're doin' this
(Number nine!) HAMILTON: Look 'em in the eye, aim no higher
Summon all the courage you require Then count
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
Number ten paces!
HAMILTON/BURR: Fire!
HAMILTON: Lee, do you yield?
BURR: You shot him in the side! Yes, he yields!
LAURENS: I'm satisfied
BURR: Yo, we gotta clear the field!
HAMILTON: Go! We won.
Here comes the General!
BURR: This should be fun
WASHINGTON: What is the meaning of this? Mr. Burr, get a medic for the General
BURR: Yes, sir
WASHINGTON: Lee, you will never agree with me
But believe me, these young men don't speak for me
Thank you for your service
BURR: Let's ride!
WASHINGTON: Hamilton! HAMILTON: Sir!
WASHINGTON: Meet me inside
Meet him inside! Meet him inside! Meet him inside, meet him, meet him inside!
WASHINGTON: Son-- HAMILTON: Don't call me son
WASHINGTON: This war is hard enough without infighting
HAMILTON: Lee called you out. We called his bluff.
WASHINGTON: You solve nothing, you aggravate our allies to the south
HAMILTON: You're absolutely right, John should have shot him in the mouth
That would've shut him up
WASHINGTON: Son HAMILTON: I'm notcha son
WASHINGTON: Watch your tone
I am not a maiden in need of defending, I am grown HAMILTON: Charles Lee, Thomas Conway
These men take your name and they rake it through the mud
WASHINGTON: My name's been through a lot, I can take it
HAMILTON: Well, I don't have your name.
I don't have your titles I don't have your land
But, if you WASHINGTON: No.
HAMILTON: If you gave me command of a battalion,
a group of men to lead, I could fly above my station after the war
WASHINGTON: Or you could die and we need you alive
HAMILTON: I'm more than willing to die
WASHINGTON: Your wife needs you alive, son, I need you alive
HAMILTON: Call me son one more time!
WASHINGTON: Go home, Alexander
That's an order from your commander
HAMILTON: Sir WASHINGTON: Go home!
ELIZA: Look around, look around
At how lucky we are to be alive right now
Look around, look around...
HAMILTON: How long have you known?
ELIZA: A month or so
HAMILTON: Eliza, you should have told me
ELIZA: I wrote to the General a month ago HAMILTON: No
ELIZA: I begged him to send you home
HAMILTON: You should have told me
ELIZA: I'm not sorry
I knew you'd fight until the war was won HAMILTON: The war's not Done.
ELIZA: But you deserve a chance to meet your son
Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.
HAMILTON: Will you relish being a poor man's wife
Unable to provide for your life?
ELIZA: I relish being your wife
Look around, look around...
Look at where you are Look at where you started
The fact that you're alive is a miracle Just stay alive, that would be enough
And if this child Shares a fraction of your smile
Or a fragment of your mind, look out world! That would be enough
I don't pretend to know The challenges you're facing
The worlds you keep erasing and creating in your mind
But I'm not afraid I know who I married
So long as you come home at the end of the day
That would be enough
We don't need a legacy We don't need money
If I could grant you peace of mind If you could let me inside your heart...
Oh, let me be a part of the narrative In the story they will write someday
Let this moment be the first chapter: Where you decide to stay
And I could be enough And we could be enough
That would be enough
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 confusin', confoundin' the British henchmen
Ev'ryone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!
Lafayette!
LAFAYETTE: I'm takin this horse by the reins makin' Redcoats redder with bloodstains
(Lafayette!) And I'm never gonna stop until I make 'em Drop and burn 'em up and scatter their remains, I'm
(Lafayette!) Watch me engagin' em! Escapin' em! Enragin' em! I'm--
(Lafayette!) I go to France for more funds
(Lafayette!) I come back with more guns
And ships And so the balance shifts
WASHINGTON: We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts And ships And so the balance shifts
WASHINGTON: We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts
LAFAYETTE: We can end this war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but
For this to succeed, there is someone else we need WASHINGOTN: I know
Hamilton!
LAFAYETTE: Sir, he knows what to do in a trench Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean--
(Hamilton!) Sir, you're gonna have to use him eventually What's he gonna do on the bench? I mean--
(Hamilton!) No one has more resilience Or matches my practical tactical brilliance--
(Hamilton!) You wanna fight for your land back?
(Hamilton!) WASHINGTON: I need my right hand man back!
LAFAYETTE: Ah! Uh, get ya right hand man back
You know you gotta get ya right hand man back
I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter but the sooner the better 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...
I was younger than you are now When I was given my first command
I led my men straight into a massacre I witnessed their deaths firsthand
I made every mistake I felt the shame rise in me
And even now I lie awake Knowing history has its eyes on me
History has its eyes on me.
Let me tell you what I wish I'd known When I was young and dreamed of glory:
You have no control Who lives, who dies, who tells your story
I know that we can win I know that greatness lies in you
But remember from here on in History has its eyes on you.
History has its eyes on you
The battle of Yorktown
1781
LAFAYETTE: Monsieur Hamilton HAMILTON: Monsieur Lafayette
LAFAYETTE: In command where you belong HAMILTON: How you say, no sweat
We're finally on the field, We've had quite a run.
LAFAYETTE: Immigrants HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE: We get the job done
HAMILTON: So what happens if we win? LAFAYETTE: I go back to France
I bring freedom to my people if I'm given the chance
HAMILTON: We'll be with you when you do
LAFAYETTE: Go lead your men
HAMILTON: See you on the other side
LAFAYETTE: 'Til we meet again, let's go!
I am not throwin' away my shot! I am not throwin' away my shot!
Hey yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot! I am not throwin' away my shot!
HAMILTON: 'Til the world turns upside down...
'Til the world turns upside down!
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
This is where it gets me: on my feet The enemy ahead of me
If this is the end of me, at least I have a friend with me
Weapon in my hand, a command, and my men with me
Then I remember my Eliza's expecting me... Not only that, my Eliza's expecting
We gotta go, gotta get the job done
Gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son!
Take the bullets out your gun! (What?)
The bullets out your gun! (What?) Take the bullets out your gun! (What?)
The bullets out your gun! (What?)
We move under cover and we move as one
Through the night, we have one shot to live another day
We cannot let a stray gunshot give us away
We will fight up close, seize the moment and stay in it
It's either that or meet the business end of a bayonet
The code word is 'Rochambeau,' dig me? (Rochambeau!)
You have your orders now, go, man, go!
And so the American experiment begins With my friends all scattered to the winds
Laurens is in South Carolina, redefining brav'ry
HAMILTON/LAURENS: We'll never be free until we end slavery!
HAMILTON: When we finally drive the British away
Lafayette is there waiting--
HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE: In Chesapeake Bay!
HAMILTON: How did we know that this plan would work?
We had a spy on the inside. That's right, Hercules Mulligan!
MULLIGAN: A tailor spyin' on the British government!
I take their measurements, information and then I smuggle it (Up!)
To my brother's revolutionary covenant I'm runnin' with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin' it!
See, that's what happens when you up against the ruffians
We in the shit now, somebody gotta shovel it!
Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction
When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!
HAMILTON: After a week of fighting, a young man in a red coat stands on a parapet.
LAFAYETTE: We lower our guns as he frantically waves a white handkerchief.
MULLIGAN: And just like that, it's over. We tend to our wounded, we count our dead.
LAURENS: Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom
WASHINGTON: Not. Yet.
HAMILTON: We negotiate the terms of surrender
I see George Washington smile
We escort their men out of Yorktown They stagger home single file
Tens of thousands of people flood the streets There are screams and church bells ringing
And as our fallen foes retreat I hear the drinking song they're singing...
The world turned upside down
Down down, down, down
LAFAYETTE: Freedom for America, freedom for France! The world turned upside down Down down, down, down
LAFAYETTE: Freedom for America, freedom for France!
Down, down, down
HAMILTON: Gotta start a new nation! Gotta meet my son! Down, down, down
HAMILTON: Gotta start a new nation! Gotta meet my son!
Down, down, down HAMILTON: Gotta start a new nation! Gotta meet my son!
Down, down, down
MULLIGAN: We won! LAFAYETTE: We won! Down, down, down
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS: We won! MULLIGAN: We won! LAFAYETTE: We won! Down, down, down
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS: We won!
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS/HAMILTON/WASHINGTON: We won! MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS: We won!
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS/HAMILTON/WASHINGTON: We won!
The world turned upside down!
KING GEORGE: They say,
The price of my war is not a price that they are willing to pay
Insane You cheat with the French
Now I am fighting with France and with Spain
I am so blue
I thought that we'd made an arrangement when you went away
You were mine to subdue Well even despite our estrangement
I got a small query for you
What comes next? You've been freed
Do you know how hard it is to lead?
You're on your own Awesome. Wow.
Do you have a clue what happens now?
Oceans rise, empires fall It's much harder when it's all your call
All alone, across the sea
When your people say they hate you, don't come crawling back to me.
You're on your own...
BURR: Dear Theodosia what to say to you
You have my eyes You have your mother's name
When you came into the world you cried and it broke my heart
I'm dedicating everyday to you Domestic life was never quite my style
When you smile, you knock me out I fall apart and I thought I was so smart
You will come of age with our young nation
We'll bleed and fight for you We'll make it right for you
If we lay a strong enough foundation
We'll pass it on to you We'll give the world to you
And you'll blow us all away Someday, someday
Yeah you'll blow us all away Someday, someday
HAMILTON: Oh, Phillip when you smile I am undone, my son
Look at my son Pride is not the word I'm looking for
There is so much more inside me now
Oh, Phillip you outshine the morning sun, my son
When you smile, I fall apart and I thought I was so smart
My father wasn't around
BURR: My father wasn't around
HAMILTON: I swear that
HAMILTON/BURR: I'll be around for you
HAMILTON: I'll do whatever it takes
BURR: I'll make a million mistakes
HAMILTON/BURR: I'll make the world safe and sound for you
You'll come of age with our young nation
We'll bleed and fight for you We'll make it right for you
If we lay a strong enough foundation
We'll pass it on to you We'll give the world to you If we lay a strong enough foundation
We'll pass it on to you We'll give the world to you
And you'll blow us all away Someday, someday
Yeah, you'll blow us all away Someday, someday
LAURENS: I may not live to see our glory.
ELIZA: Alexander? There's a letter for you.
HAMILTON: It's from John Laurens. I'll read it later.
LAURENS: But I will gladly join the fight.
ELIZA: No. It's from his father.
HAMILTON: His father?
LAURENS: And when our children tell our story.
HAMILTON: Will you read it for me?
LAURENS: They'll tell the story of tonight.
ELIZA: "On Tuesday the 27th,
"my son was killed in a gunfight against British troops retreating from South Carolina.
"The war was already over. As you know, John dreamed of emancipating and recruiting
"3000 men for the first all-black military regiment. His dream of freedom for these men dies with him."
LAURENS: Tomorrow there'll be more of us...
ELIZA: Alexander. Are you alright?
HAMILTON: I have so much work to do.
BURR: After the war I went back to New York
HAMILTON: A-After the war I went back to New York
BURR: I finished up my studies and I practiced law
HAMILTON: I practiced law, Burr worked next door
BURR: Even though we started at the very same time
Alexander Hamilton began to climb
How to account for his rise to the top? Maaaaan, the man is non-stop!
HAMILTON: Gentlemen of the jury, I'm curious, bear with me
Are you aware that we're making hist'ry?
This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation
The liberty behind deliberation-- (Non-stop!)
I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt With my assistant counsel
BURR: Co-counsel. Hamilton, sit down,
Our client Levi Weeks is innocent. Call your first witness
That's all you had to say!
HAMILTON: Okay! One more thing--
BURR: Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?
Soon that attitude may be your doom!
Why do you write like you're running out of time?
Write day and night like you're running out of time?
Ev'ry day you fight, like you're running out of time
Keep on fighting. In the meantime-- (Non-stop!)
HAMILTON: Corruption's such an old song that we can sing along in harmony
And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany This colony's economy's increasingly stalling
And honestly, that's why public service (He's just) Seems to be calling me. (Non-stop!)
I practiced the law, I practic'ly perfected it
I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it
Now for a strong central democracy If not, then I'll be Socrates
Throwing verbal rocks At these mediocrities.
BURR: Hamilton, at the Constitutional Convention:
HAMILTON: I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention
BURR: There as a New York junior delegate:
HAMILTON: Now what I'm going to say may sound indelicate...
BURR: Goes and proposes his own form of government!
(What?) His own plan for a new form of government!
(What?) Talks for six hours! The convention is listless!
Bright young man... Yo, who the f is this?
Why do you always say what you believe? Why do you always say what you believe?
Ev'ry proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies!
Why do you write like it's going out of style?
Write day and night like it's going out of style?
Ev'ry day you fight like it's Going out of style
Do what you do
BURR: Alexander? HAMILTON: Aaron Burr, sir
BURR: It's the middle of the night
HAMILTON: Can we confer, sir?
BURR: Is this a legal matter?
HAMILTON: Yes, and it's important to me
BURR: What do you need?
HAMILTON: Burr, you're a better lawyer than me
BURR: Okay
HAMILTON: I know I talk too much, I'm abrasive
You're incredible in court, You're succinct, persuasive.
My client needs a strong defense. You're the solution.
BURR: Who's your client?
HAMILTON: The new U.S. Constitution
BURR: No
HAMILTON: Hear me out
BURR: No way!
HAMILTON: A series of essays, anonymously published
Defending the document to the public
BURR: No one will read it HAMILTON: I disagree
BURR:And if it fails? HAMILTON: Burr, that's why we need it
BURR: The constitution's a mess HAMILTON: So it needs amendments
BURR: It's full of contradictions HAMILTON: So is independence
We have to start somewhere
BURR: No. No way HAMILTON: You're making a mistake
BURR: Good night HAMILTON: Hey
What are you waiting for? What do you stall for?
BURR: What? HAMILTON: We won the war
What was it all for? Do you support this constitution?
BURR: Of course HAMILTON: Then defend it
BURR: And what if you're backing the wrong horse?
HAMILTON: Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed
For the notion of a nation we now get to build
For once in your life, take a stand with pride
I don't understand how you stand to the side
BURR: I'll keep all my plans close to my chest
(Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it) I'll wait here and see
Which way the wind will blow
I'm taking my time watching the afterbirth of a nation watching the tension grow.
ANGELICA: I am sailing off to London.
I'm accompanied by someone who always pays
I have found a wealthy husband who will keep me in comfort for all my days
He is not a lot of fun, but there's no one who can match you for turn of phrase
My Alexander
HAMILTON: Angelica
ANGELICA: Don't forget to write
ELIZA: Look at where you are
Look at where you started The fact that you're alive is a miracle
Just stay alive, that would be enough
And if your wife could share a fraction of your time
If I could grant you peace of mind Would that be enough?
BURR: Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays
Defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers.
The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays, the work divided evenly among the three men.
In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months.
John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote twenty-nine.
Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one!
How do you write like you're Running out of time?
Write day and night like you're Running out of time?
Ev'ry day you fight like you're Running out of time
Like you're running out of time Are you running out of time?
How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive? How do you write like you need it to survive?
How do you write ev'ry second you're alive? Ev'ry second you're alive? Ev'ry second you're alive?
WASHINGTON: They are asking me to lead
I am doing the best I can To get the people that I need
I'm asking you to be my right hand man HAMILTON: Treasury or State?
WASHINGTON: I know it's a lot to ask HAMILTON: Treasury or State?
WASHINGTON: To leave behind the world you know...
HAMILTON: Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State department?
WASHINGTON: Treasury
HAMILTON: Let's go
ELIZA: Alexander...
HAMILTON: I have to leave
ELIZA: Alexander--
HAMILTON: Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now
ELIZA: Helpless...
HAMILTON: They are asking me to lead ELIZA: Helpless...
HAMILTON: They are asking me to lead
ELIZA: Look around, isn't this enough?
ANGELICA: He will never be satisfied ELIZA: What would be enough
ANGELICA: He will never be satisfied
Satisfied, satisfied WASHINGTON: History has its eyes on you!
History has its eyes on you!
HAMILTON: I am not throwin' away my shot! (Just you wait!)
I am Alexander Hamilton! (Alexander Hamilton! Hamilton!)
(Just you wait!) I am not throwin' away my shot!
ACT II
Oh, I’ve got to be in The room where it happens…
I’ve got to be, I’ve gotta be, I’ve gotta be…
In the room!
What?
AARON BURR: 1789!
How does the bastard orphan Immigrant decorated war vet
Unite the colonies through more debt? Fight the other founding fathers til he has to forfeit?
Have it all, lose it all You ready for more yet?
Treasury Secretary. Washington’s the President Ev’ry American experiment sets a precedent
Not so fast. Someone came along to resist him Pissed him off until we had a two-party system
You haven’t met him yet, you haven’t had the chance ‘cause he’s been kickin’ ass as the ambassador to France
But someone’s gotta keep the American promise You simply must meet Thomas. Thomas!
JEFFERSON: France is following us to revolution
There is no more status quo But the sun comes up and the world still spins
I helped Lafayette draft a declaration Then I said, ‘I gotta go
I gotta be in Monticello.’ Now the work at Home begins…
So what’d I miss? What’d I miss?
Virginia, my home sweet home, I wanna give you a kiss
I’ve been in Paris meeting lots of different ladies... I guess I basic’lly missed the late eighties...
I traveled the wide, wide world and came back to this…
There’s a letter on my desk from the President Haven’t even put my bags down yet
Sally be a lamb, darlin’, won’tcha open it? It says the President’s assembling a cabinet
And that I am to be the Secretary of State, great! And that I’m already Senate-approved...
I just got home and now I’m headed up to New York
Lookin’ at the rolling fields I can’t believe that we are free
Ready to face Whatever’s awaiting me in NYC
But who’s waitin’ for me when I step in the place? My friend James Madison, red in the face
He grabs my arm and I respond “What’s goin’ on?”
MADISON: Thomas, we are engaged in a battle
For our nation’s very soul Can you get us out of the mess we’re in?
Hamilton’s new financial plan is nothing less Than government control
I’ve been fighting for the South alone Where have you been?
JEFFERSON: Uh...France.
MADISON: We have to win
JEFFERSON: What’d I miss?
Headfirst into a political abyss!
I have my first cabinet meeting today I guess I better think of something to say
I’m already on my way Let’s get to the bottom of this…
WASHINGTON: Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
HAMILTON: Mr. Jefferson? Alexander Hamilton
WASHINGTON AND ENSEMBLE: Mr. Jefferson, welcome home
Sir, you’ve been off in Paris for so long!
JEFFERSON: So what did I miss?
WASHINGTON: Ladies and gentlemen JEFFERSON: So what did I miss?
WASHINGTON: Ladies and gentlemen
You coulda been anywhere in the world tonight, but you’re here with us in New York City.
Are you ready for a cabinet meeting?
The issue on the table: Secretary Hamilton’s plan to assume state debt and establish a national bank.
Secretary Jefferson, you have the floor, sir
JEFFERSON: ‘Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’
We fought for these ideals; we shouldn’t settle for less These are wise words, enterprising men quote ‘em
Don’t act surprised, you guys, cuz I wrote ‘em
But Hamilton forgets His plan would have the government assume state’s debts
Now, place your bets as to who that benefits: The very seat of government where Hamilton sits
HAMILTON: Not true!
JEFFERSON: Ooh, if the shoe fits, wear it
If New York’s in debt— Why should Virginia bear it? Uh!
Our debts are paid, I’m afraid Don’t tax the South cuz we got it made in the shade
In Virginia, we plant seeds in the ground We create. You just wanna move our money around
This financial plan is an outrageous demand And it’s too many damn pages for any man to understand
Stand with me in the land of the free And pray to God we never see Hamilton’s candidacy
Look, when Britain taxed our tea, we got frisky Imagine what gon’ happen when you try to tax our whisky
WASHINGTON: Thank you, Secretary Jefferson.
Secretary Hamilton, your response
HAMILTON: Thomas. That was a real nice declaration Secretary Hamilton, your response
HAMILTON: Thomas. That was a real nice declaration
Welcome to the present, we’re running a real nation Would you like to join us, or stay mellow
Doin’ whatever the hell it is you do in Monticello? If we assume the debts, the union gets
A new line of credit, a financial diuretic How do you not get it? If we’re aggressive and competitive
The union gets a boost. You’d rather give it a sedative? A civics lesson from a slaver. Hey neighbor
Your debts are paid cuz you don’t pay for labor “We plant seeds in the South. We create.”
Yeah, keep ranting We know who’s really doing the planting
And another thing, Mr. Age of Enlightenment Don’t lecture me about the war, you didn’t fight in it
You think I’m frightened of you, man? We almost died in a trench
While you were off getting high with the French Thomas Jefferson, always hesitant with the President
Reticent—there isn’t a plan he doesn’t jettison Madison, you’re mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine
Damn, you’re in worse shape than the national debt is in Sittin’ there useless as two shits
Hey, turn around, bend over, I’ll show you Where my shoe fits
WASHINGTON: Excuse me? Jefferson, Madison, take a walk!
Hamilton, take a walk! We’ll reconvene after a brief recess. Hamilton!
HAMILTON: Sir!
WASHINGTON: A word
MADISON: You don’t have the votes
JEFFERSON/MADISON: You don’t have the votes
You’re gonna need congressional approval and you don’t have the votes
JEFFERSON: Such a blunder sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring the thunder
WASHINGTON: You wanna pull yourself together?
HAMILTON: I’m sorry, these Virginians are birds of a feather
WASHINGTON: Young man, I’m from Virginia, so watch your mouth
HAMILTON: So we let Congress get held hostage by the South?
WASHINGTON: You need the votes
HAMILTON: No, we need bold strokes. We need this plan
WASHINGTON: No, you need to convince more folks
HAMILTON: James Madison won’t talk to me, that’s a nonstarter
WASHINGTON: Winning was easy, young man. Governing’s harder
HAMILTON: They’re being intransigent
WASHINGTON: You have to find a compromise
HAMILTON: But they don’t have a plan, they just hate mine!
WASHINGTON: Convince them otherwise
HAMILTON: What happens if I don’t get congressional approval?
WASHINGTON: I imagine they’ll call for your removal
HAMILTON: Sir—
That’s an order from your commander WASHINGTON: Figure it out, Alexander.
ELIZA: Un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf ELIZA: Un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf
ELIZA: Good! Un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf ELIZA: Good! Un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf
ELIZA: Sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Sept huit neuf
ELIZA: Sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Sept huit neuf ELIZA: Sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Sept huit neuf
ELIZA AND PHILIP: One two three four five six seven eight nine!
HAMILTON: My dearest, Angelica
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”
I trust you’ll understand the reference to Another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play
They think me Macbeth, and ambition is my folly I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain
Madison is Banquo, Jefferson’s Macduff And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane
HAMILTON & ANGELICA: And there you are, an ocean away
Do you have to live an ocean away? Thoughts of you subside
Then I get another letter I cannot put the notion away…
ELIZA: Take a break
HAMILTON: I am on my way
ELIZA: There’s a little surprise before supper
And it cannot wait
HAMILTON: I’ll be there in just a minute, save my plate
ELIZA: Alexander
HAMILTON: Okay, okay ELIZA: Alexander
HAMILTON: Okay, okay
ELIZA: Your son is nine years old today
Has something he’d like to say He’s been practicing all day
Philip, take it away
PHILIP: Daddy, daddy, look
My name is Philip I am a poet
I wrote this poem just To show it
And I just turned nine
You can write rhymes But you can’t write mine
I practice French And play piano with my mother
I have a sister, but I want a little brother
My daddy’s trying to start America’s bank Un deux trois quatre cinq!
HAMILTON: Bravo! My daddy’s trying to start America’s bank Un deux trois quatre cinq!
HAMILTON: Bravo!
ELIZA: Take a break
HAMILTON: Hey, our kid is pretty great
ELIZA: Run away with us for the summer Let’s go upstate
HAMILTON: Eliza, I’ve got so much on my plate
ELIZA: We can all go stay with my father
There’s a lake I know…
HAMILTON: I know There’s a lake I know…
HAMILTON: I know
ELIZA: In a nearby park
HAMILTON: I’d love to go
ELIZA: You and I can go when the night gets dark…
HAMILTON: I will try to get away
ANGELICA: My dearest Alexander
You must get through to Jefferson Sit down with him and compromise
Don’t stop ‘til you agree Your fav’rite older sister
Angelica, reminds you There’s someone in your corner all the way across the sea
In a letter I received from you two weeks ago I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase
It changed the meaning. Did you intend this? One stroke and you’ve consumed my waking days
It says:
HAMILTON & ANGELICA: “My dearest Angelica”
ANGELICA: With a comma after “dearest.” You’ve written
HAMILTON AND ANGELICA: “My dearest, Angelica.”
ANGELICA: Anyway, all this to say
I’m coming home this summer At my sister’s invitation
I’ll be there with your fam’ly If you make your way upstate
I know you’re very busy I know your work’s important
But I’m crossing the ocean and I just can’t wait
HAMILTON AND ANGELICA: You won’t be an ocean away
You will only be a moment away…
ELIZA: Alexander, come downstairs.
Angelica’s arriving today!
Angelica!
ANGELICA: Eliza!
HAMILTON: The Schuyler sisters!
ANGELICA: Alexander
HAMILTON: Hi
ANGELICA: It’s good to see your face
ELIZA: Angelica, tell this man ...
John Adams spends the summer with his family
HAMILTON: Angelica, tell my wife ...
John Adams doesn’t have a real job anyway
ANGELICA: …you’re not joining us? Wait
HAMILTON: I’m afraid I cannot join you upstate
ANGELICA: Alexander, I came all this way
ELIZA: She came all this way
ANGELICA: All this way
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: Take a break
HAMILTON: You know I have to get my plan through Congress
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: Run away with us for the summer
Let’s go upstate
HAMILTON: I lose my job if I don’t get my plan through Congress
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: We can all go stay with our father
ELIZA: There’s a lake I know
ANGELICA: I know I’ll miss your face ELIZA: There’s a lake I know
ANGELICA: I know I’ll miss your face
ELIZA: In a nearby park
ANGELICA: Screw your courage to the sticking place ELIZA: In a nearby park
ANGELICA: Screw your courage to the sticking place
ELIZA: You and I can go ANGELICA: Screw your courage to the sticking place
ELIZA: You and I can go
ANGELICA: Eliza’s right ELIZA: You and I can go
ANGELICA: Eliza’s right
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: Take a break and get away
ANGELICA: Run away with us for the summer ELIZA AND ANGELICA: Take a break and get away
ANGELICA: Run away with us for the summer
ELIZA: Let’s go upstate Where we can stay
ANGELICA: We can all go stay with our father If you take your time
ELIZA: Look around, look around At how lucky we are to be alive right now
ANGELICA: You will make your mark Close your eyes and dream ELIZA: Look around, look around At how lucky we are to be alive right now
ANGELICA: You will make your mark Close your eyes and dream
ELIZA: We can go ANGELICA: You will make your mark Close your eyes and dream
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: When the night gets dark Take a break. ANGELICA: You will make your mark Close your eyes and dream
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: When the night gets dark Take a break.
HAMILTON: I have to get my plan through Congress
I can’t stop until I get this plan through Congress
BURR: There’s nothing like summer in the city
Someone under stress meets someone looking pretty
There’s trouble in the air, you can smell it And Alexander’s by himself. I’ll let him tell it
HAMILTON: I hadn’t slept in a week
I was weak, I was awake You never seen a bastard orphan
More in need of a break Longing for Angelica
Missing my wife That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into my life, she said:
MARIA: I know you are a man of honor
I’m so sorry to bother you at home But I don’t know where to go, and I came here all alone…
HAMILTON: She said:
MARIA: My husband’s doin’ me wrong
Beatin’ me, cheatin’ me, mistreatin’ me... Suddenly he’s up and gone
I don’t have the means to go on
HAMILTON: So I offered her a loan, I offered to walk her home, she said
MARIA: You’re too kind, sir
HAMILTON: I gave her thirty bucks that I had socked away
She lived a block away, she said:
MARIA: This one’s mine, sir
HAMILTON: Then I said, “well, I should head back home,”
She turned red, she led me to her bed Let her legs spread and said:
MARIA: Stay?
HAMILTON: Hey…
MARIA: Hey…
HAMILTON: That’s when I began to pray:
Lord, show me how to Say no to this
I don’t know how to Say no to this
But my God, she looks so helpless And her body’s saying, “hell, yes”
MARIA: Whoa...
HAMILTON: Nooo, show me how to MARIA: Whoa...
Say no to this I don’t know how to MARIA: Whoa...
Say no to this I don’t know how to
Say no to this In my mind, I’m tryin’ to go
Then her mouth is on mine, and I don’t say…
No! No! Say no to this!
I wish I could say that was the last time I said that last time. It became a pastime
A month into this endeavor I received a letter From a Mr. James Reynolds, even better, it said:
JAMES: Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health
And in a prosperous enough position to put wealth In the pockets of people like me: down on their luck
You see, that was my wife who you decided to
HAMILTON: Fuuuu
JAMES: Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold HAMILTON: Fuuuu
JAMES: Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold
So time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife
If the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife
HAMILTON: I hid the letter and I raced to her place
Screamed “How could you?!” in her face She said:
MARIA: No, sir!
HAMILTON: Half dressed, apologetic. MARIA: No, sir!
HAMILTON: Half dressed, apologetic.
A mess, she looked Pathetic, she cried:
MARIA: Please don’t go, sir!
HAMILTON: So was your whole story a setup?
MARIA: I don’t know about any letter!
HAMILTON: Stop crying Goddamnit, get up!
MARIA: I didn’t know any better
HAMILTON: I am ruined...
MARIA: Please don’t leave me with him helpless
HAMILTON: I am helpless—how could I do this? MARIA: Please don’t leave me with him helpless
HAMILTON: I am helpless—how could I do this?
MARIA: Just give him what he wants and you can have me
HAMILTON: I don’t want you MARIA: Just give him what he wants and you can have me
HAMILTON: I don’t want you
MARIA: Whatever you want
MARIA: If you pay You can stay
HAMILTON Lord, show me how to say no to this
I don’t know how to Say no to this
Cuz the situation’s helpless And her body’s screaming, “Hell, yes”
No, show me how to Say no to this
How can I Say no to this?
There is nowhere I can go
When her body’s on mine I do not say…
ENSEMBLE: No!
HAMILTON Yes!
ENSEMBLE: No!
HAMILTON Yes!
ENSEMBLE: No!
HAMILTON Yes!
ENSEMBLE: No!
HAMILTON Yes!
HAMILTON: Say no to this…
I don’t say no to this There is nowhere I can go.
JAMES: So?
HAMILTON: Nobody needs to know
BURR: Ah, Mister Secretary
HAMILTON: Mister Burr, sir
BURR: Didja hear the news about good old General Mercer?
HAMILTON: No
BURR: You know Clermont Street?
HAMILTON: Yeah
BURR: They renamed it after him. The Mercer legacy is secure
HAMILTON: Sure
BURR: And all he had to do was die
HAMILTON: That’s a lot less work
BURR: We oughta give it a try
Now how’re you gonna get your debt plan through?
HAMILTON: I guess I’m gonna fin’ly have to listen to you
BURR: Really?
HAMILTON: “Talk less. Smile more.”
Do whatever it takes to get my plan on the Congress floor
BURR: Now, Madison and Jefferson are merciless.
HAMILTON: Well, hate the sin, love the sinner
MADISON: Hamilton!
HAMILTON: I’m sorry Burr, I’ve gotta go
BURR: But—
HAMILTON: Decisions are happening over dinner
BURR: Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room
Diametric’ly opposed, foes They emerge with a compromise
Having opened doors that were Previously closed (Bros!)
The immigrant emerges with unprecedented financial power A system he can shape however he wants
The Virginians emerge with the nation’s capital And here’s the pièce de résistance:
No one else was in The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one else was in The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one really knows how the game is played The art of the trade
How the sausage gets made We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in The room where it happens.
Thomas claims
JEFFERSON: Alexander was on Washington’s doorstep one day
In distress ‘n disarray
BURR AND COMPANY: Thomas claims
JEFFERSON: Alexander said
HAMILTON: I’ve nowhere else to turn!
JEFFERSON: And basic’ly begged me to join the fray
BURR AND COMPANY: Thomas claims
JEFFERSON: I approached Madison and said
“I know you hate ‘im, but let’s hear what he has to say.”
BURR AND COMPANY: Thomas claims
JEFFERSON: Well, I arranged the meeting
I arranged the menu, the venue, the seating
BURR: But! No one else was in The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one else was in The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one really knows how the Parties get to yesssss
The pieces that are sacrificed in Ev’ry game of chesssss
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in The room where it happens.
Meanwhile Madison is grappling with the fact
that not ev’ry issue can be settled by committee
Meanwhile Congress is fighting over where to put the capital—
It isn’t pretty Then Jefferson approaches with a dinner and invite
And Madison responds with Virginian insight:
MADISON: Maybe we can solve one problem with another
and win a victory for the Southerners, in other words
JEFFERSON: Oh-ho!
MADISON: A quid pro quo
JEFFERSON: I suppose
MADISON: Wouldn’t you like to work a little closer to home?
JEFFERSON: Actually, I would
MADISON: Well, I propose the Potomac
JEFFERSON: And you’ll provide him his votes?
MADISON: Well, we’ll see how it goes
JEFFERSON: Let’s go
BURR: No!
-one else was in The room where it happened
The room where it happened
No one else was in The room where it happened
The room where it happened
My God! In God we trust
But we’ll never really know what got discussed Click-boom then it happened
And no one else was in the room where it happened
Alexander Hamilton!
What did they say to you to get you to sell New York City down the river?
Alexander Hamilton!
Did Washington know about the dinner? Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?
Alexander Hamilton!
Or did you know, even then, it doesn’t matter Where you put the U.S. Capital?
HAMILTON: Cuz we’ll have the banks, we’re in the same spot
BURR: You got more than you gave
HAMILTON: And I wanted what I got
When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game
Oh, you get love for it. You get hate for it You get nothing if you…
Wait for it, wait for it, wait!
God help and forgive me I wanna build
Something that’s gonna Outlive me
What do you want, Burr? What do you want, Burr?
If you stand for nothing Burr, then what do you fall for?
I - I wanna be in
The room where it happens The room where it happens
I wanna be in The room where it happens
I - I wanna be in
The room where it happens
I - I wanna be in
The room - oh!
I wanna be, I wanna be, I've gotta be, I've gotta be
In that room That big ol' room
The art of the compromise—
Hold your nose and close your eyes
We want our leaders to save the day—
But we don’t get a say in what they trade away
We dream of a brand new start—
But we dream in the dark for the most part
Dark as a tomb where it happens
I’ve got to be in The room…
I’ve got to be... I’ve got to be...
Click-boom!
PHILLIP: Look!
Grandpa’s in the paper!
“War hero Philip Schuyler loses senate seat to young upstart Aaron Burr”
Grandpa just lost his seat in the senate
ELIZA: Sometimes that’s how it goes
PHILLIP: Daddy’s gonna find out any minute
ELIZA: I’m sure he already knows
PHILLIP: Further down
PHILLIP & ELIZA: Further down
PHILLIP: Let’s meet the newest senator from New York
ELIZA: New York
PHILLIP & ELIZA: Our senator
HAMILTON: Burr?
Since when are you a Democratic-Republican?
BURR: Since being one put me on the up and up again
HAMILTON: No one knows who you are or what you do
BURR: They don’t need to know me
They don’t like you
HAMILTON: Excuse me?
BURR: Oh, Wall Street thinks you’re great
You’ll always be adored by the things you create But upstate—
HAMILTON: Wait
BURR: —people think you’re crooked Schuyler’s seat was up for grabs so I took it
HAMILTON: I’ve always considered you a friend
BURR: I don’t see why that has to end
HAMILTON: You changed parties to run against my father-in-law
BURR: I changed parties to seize the opportunity I saw
I swear your pride will be the death of us all Beware, it goeth before the fall
WASHINGTON: The issue on the table:
France is on the verge of war with England,
and do we provide aid and our troops to our French allies or do we stay out of it?
Remember, my decision on this matter is not subject to congressional approval.
The only person you have to convince is me. Secretary Jefferson, you have the floor, sir.
JEFFERSON: When we were on death’s door
When we were needy We made a promise
We signed a treaty We need money and guns and half a chance
Uh, who provided those funds?
MADISON: France.
JEFFERSON: In return, they didn’t ask for land,
Only a promise that we’d lend a hand And stand with them
If they fought against oppressors And revolution is messy
But now is the time to stand! Stand with our brothers
As they fight against tyranny. I know that Alexander Hamilton is here and he
Would rather not have this debate; I’ll remind you that he is not Secretary of State!
He knows nothing of loyalty Smells like new money, dresses like fake royalty
Desperate to rise above his station, Everything he does betrays the ideals of our nation.
Hey, and if you don’t know, now you know, Mr. President.
WASHINGTON Thank you, Secretary Jefferson.
Secretary Hamilton, your response?
HAMILTON: You must be out of your goddamn mind
If you think The President is going to bring the nation to the brink
Of meddling in the middle of a military mess, A game of chess,
Where France is Queen and King-less. We signed a treaty with a King whose head is now in a basket,
Would you like to take it out and ask it? Should we honor our treaty, King Louis’s head?
“Uh, do whatever you want I’m super dead!”
WASHINGTON: Enough enough, Hamilton is right.
JEFFERSON: Mr. President!
WASHINGTON: We’re too fragile to start another fight.
JEFFERSON: But sir, do we not fight for freedom?
WASHINGTON: Sure, when the French figure out who’s gonna lead ‘em.
JEFFERSON: The people are leading!
WASHINGTON: The people are rioting! There’s a difference!
Frankly it’s a little disquieting You would let your ideals blind you to reality!
Hamilton?
HAMILTON: Sir!
WASHINGTON: Draft the statement of neutrality.
JEFFERSON: Did you forget Lafayette?
HAMILTON: What?
JEFFERSON: Have you an ounce of regret?
You accumulate debt, you accumulate power. Yet in their hour of need, you forget.
HAMILTON: Lafayette’s a smart man, he’ll be fine.
And before he was your friend, he was mine. If we try to fight in every revolution in the world,
We never stop. Where do we draw the line?
JEFFERSON: So quick witted.
HAMILTON: Alas, I admit it.
JEFFERSON: I bet you were quite a lawyer.
HAMILTON: My defendants got acquitted
JEFFERSON: Yeah, well someone ought to remind you
HAMILTON: What?
JEFFERSON: You’re nothing without Washington behind you.
WASHINGTON: Hamilton!
JEFFERSON: Daddy’s calling!
BURR: It must be nice, it must be nice
To have Washington on your side It must be nice, it must be nice
To have Washington on your side
JEFFERSON: Ev'ry action has its equal, opposite reactions.
Thanks to Hamilton, our cabinet’s fractured into factions.
Try not to crack under the stress, we’re breaking down like fractions.
We smack each other in the press, and we don’t print retractions.
I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion
Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration As Wall Street robs ‘em blind in search of chips to cash in
This prick is asking for someone to bring him to task
Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him
I’ll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock it
While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket
It must be nice, it must be nice To have Washington on your side
Look back at the Bill of Rights
MADISON: Which I wrote!
BURR & JEFFERSON: The ink hasn't dried
It must be nice, it must be nice To have Washington on your side
MADISON: So he’s doubled the size of the government
Wasn't the trouble with much of our previous government size?
BURR: Look in his eyes
JEFFERSON: See how he lies
MADISON: Follow the scent of his enterprise
JEFFERSON: Centralizing national credit and making American credit competitive
MADISON: If we don’t stop it, we aid and abet it.
JEFFERSON: I have to resign!
MADISON: Somebody has to stand up for the South!
BURR: Well, somebody has to stand up to his mouth!
JEFFERSON: If there’s a fire you’re trying to douse
You can’t put it out from inside the house!
I’m in the cabinet, I am complicit In watching him grabbin' at power and kiss it.
If Washington isn’t gon’ listen to disciplined dissidents, This is the difference, this kid is OUT!
ALL: OH! This immigrant isn’t somebody we chose!
OH! This immigrant’s keeping us all on our toes!
OH! Let’s show these Federalists what they’re up against!
OH! Southern motherfucking Democratic-Republicans!
OH! Let’s follow the money and see where it goes!
OH! Because every second, the treasury grows!
OH! If we follow the money and see where it leads
Get in the weeds, look for the seeds of Hamilton’s misdeeds!
It must be nice, it must be nice…
MADISON: Follow the money and see where it goes!
ALL: It must be nice, it must be nice…
JEFFERSON: The emperor has no clothes
ALL: We won’t be invisible
We won’t be denied!
Still…
It must be nice, it must be nice To have Washington on your side
HAMILTON: Mr. President, you asked to see me?
WASHINGTON: I know you’re busy
HAMILTON: What do you need, sir?
Sir?
WASHINGTON: I wanna give you a word of warning
HAMILTON: Sir, I don’t know what you heard
But whatever it is, Jefferson started it
WASHINGTON: Thomas Jefferson resigned this morning
HAMILTON: You’re kidding
WASHINGTON: I need a favor
HAMILTON: Whatever you say, sir, Jefferson will pay for his behavior!
WASHINGTON: Shh. Talk less
HAMILTON: I’ll use the press
I’ll write under a pseudonym, you’ll see what I can do to him
WASHINGTON: I need you to draft an address
HAMILTON: Yes! He resigned.
You can finally speak your mind
WASHINGTON: No ...
He’s stepping down so he can run for President
HAMILTON: Ha! Good luck defeating you, sir.
WASHINGTON: I’m stepping down.
I’m not running for President
HAMILTON: I’m sorry, what?
WASHINGTON: One last time
Relax, have a drink with me One last time
Let’s take a break tonight And then we’ll teach them how to say goodbye
To say goodbye You and I
HAMILTON: No, sir, why?
WASHINGTON: I wanna talk about neutrality
HAMILTON: Sir
With Britain and France on the verge of war, is this the best time ...
WASHINGTON: I want to warn against partisan fighting
HAMILTON: But—
WASHINGTON: Pick up a pen, start writing
I wanna talk about what I have learned The hard-won wisdom I have earned
HAMILTON: As far as the people are concerned
You have to serve, you could continue to serve
WASHINGTON: No! You have to serve, you could continue to serve
WASHINGTON: No!
One last time The people will hear from me
One last time And if we get this right
We’re gonna teach ‘em how to say Goodbye
You and I
HAMILTON: Mr. President, they will say you’re weak
WASHINGTON: No, they will see we’re strong
HAMILTON: Your position is so unique
WASHINGTON: So I’ll use it to move them along
HAMILTON: Why do you have to say goodbye?
WASHINGTON: If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on
It outlives me when I’m gone
Like the scripture says:
“Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree And no one shall make them afraid.”
They’ll be safe in the nation we’ve made
I wanna sit under my own vine and fig tree A moment alone in the shade
At home in this nation we’ve made One last time
HAMILTON: One last time
Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error
I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects Not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors.
I shall also carry with me The hope
That my country will View them with indulgence
And that after forty-five years of my life Dedicated to its service with an upright zeal
The faults of incompetent abilities will be Consigned to oblivion, as I myself must soon be to the mansions of rest
I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize the sweet enjoyment of partaking
In the midst of my fellow-citizens, The benign influence of good laws under a free government The ever-favorite object of my heart
And the happy reward, as I trust Of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.
One last time
COMPANY: George Washington’s going home!
HAMILTON: Teach ‘em how to say goodbye
COMPANY: George Washington’s going home
WASHINGTON: You and I
COMPANY: George Washington’s going home
WASHINGTON: Going home
COMPANY: George Washington’s going home
WASHINGTON: History has its eyes on you COMPANY: George Washington’s going home
WASHINGTON: History has its eyes on you
COMPANY: George Washington’s going home WASHINGTON: History has its eyes on you
COMPANY: George Washington’s going home
WASHINGTON: We’re gonna teach ‘em how to Say goodbye!
Teach ‘em how to Say goodbye!
To say goodbye! Say goodbye!
One last time!
KING GEORGE III: They say
George Washington's yielding his power and stepping away
Is that true? I wasn't aware that was something a person could do
I'm perplexed. Are they going to keep on replacing whoever's in charge?
If so who's next? There's nobody else in their country who looms quite as large
John Adams?
I know him That can't be
That's that little guy who spoke to me All those years ago
What was it, '85? That poor man they're going to eat him alive!
Ocean's rise, empires fall Next to Washington they all look small
All alone, watch them run
They will tear each other in to pieces Jesus Christ this will be fun!
President John Adams
Good luck!
BURR: How does Hamilton
the short-tempered, protean creator of the coast guard,
founder of the New York Post ardently abuse his cabinet post
destroy his reputation? Welcome folks, to the Adam’s Administration.
Jefferson’s the runner-up which makes him the vice-president
MADISON: Washington can’t help you now
No more Mr. Nice President
BURR: Adams fires Hamilton
Privately calls him creole bastard in his toss
Hamilton publishes his response.
HAMILTON: Sit down John
You fat mother-fucker!
JEFFERSON: Hamilton’s out of control,
MADISON: This is great:
He’s out of power, he holds no office
and he just destroyed president John Adams the only other significant member of his party
JEFFERSON: Hamilton is a host unto himself
As long as he can hold a pen, he’s a threat.
Let’s let him know what we know.
HAMILTON: Mr. Vice President
Mr. Madison
Senator Burr
What is this?
JEFFERSON: We have the check stubs. From separate accounts…
MADISON: Almost a thousand dollars, paid in different amounts…
BURR: To a Mr. James Reynolds
Way back in Seventeen ninety-one
HAMILTON: Is that what you have? Are you done?
MADISON: You are uniquely situated by virtue of your position
JEFFERSON: Though ‘virtue’ is not a word I’d apply to this situation
MADISON: To seek financial gain, to stray from your sacred mission
JEFFERSON: And the evidence suggests you’ve engaged in speculation
BURR: An immigrant embezzling our government funds
JEFFERSON/MADISON: I can almost see the headline, your career is done
BURR: I hope you saved some money for your daughter and sons
BURR/JEFFERSON/MADISON: Ya best g'wan run back where ya come from!
HAMILTON: Ha!
You don’t even know what you’re asking me to confess
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR: Confess
HAMILTON: You have nothing.
I don’t have to tell you anything at all Unless
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR: Unless
HAMILTON: If I can prove that I never broke the law
Do you promise not to tell another soul what you saw?
BURR: No one else was in the room where it happened
HAMILTON: Is that a yes?
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR: Um, yes
BURR: “Dear Sir,
I hope this letter finds you in good health And in a prosperous enough position to put wealth
In the pockets of people like me: down on their luck You see, it was my wife who you decided to”
JEFFERSON: Whaaaat—
HAMILTON: She courted me
Escorted me to bed and when she had me in a corner That’s when Reynolds extorted me
For a sordid fee I paid him quarterly
I may have mortally wounded my prospects But my papers are orderly!
As you can see I kept a record Of every check in my checkered history
Check it again against your list n’ see consistency I never spent a cent that wasn’t mine
You sent the dogs after my scent, that’s fine Yes, I have reasons for shame
But I have not committed treason and sullied my good name As you can see I have done nothing to provoke legal action
Are my answers to your satisfaction?
JEFFERSON: My God
MADISON: Gentlemen, let’s go
HAMILTON: So?
JEFFERSON AND MADISON: The people won't know what we know
HAMILTON: Burr!
How do I know you won’t use this against me The next time we go toe to toe?
BURR: Alexander, rumors only grow.
And we both Know what we know
HAMILTON: In the eye of a hurricane There is quiet
For just a moment A yellow sky
When I was seventeen a hurricane Destroyed my town
I didn’t drown I couldn’t seem to die
I wrote my way out Wrote everything down far as I could see
I wrote my way out I looked up and the town had its eyes on me
They passed a plate around Total strangers
Moved to kindness by my story
Raised enough for me to book passage on a Ship that was New York bound…
I wrote my way out of hell I wrote my way to revolution
I was louder than the crack in the bell I wrote Eliza love letters until she fell
I wrote about The Constitution and defended it well
And in the face of ignorance and resistance I wrote financial systems into existence
And when my prayers to God were met with indifference I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance
In the eye of a hurricane There is quiet
For just a moment A yellow sky
I was twelve when my mother died She was holding me
We were sick and she was holding me I couldn’t seem to die
BURR: Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it…
HAMILTON: I’ll write my way out…
BURR AND ENSEMBLE: Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it…
HAMILTON: Write ev’rything down, far as I can see…
BURR AND ENSEMBLE: Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait…
HAMILTON: I’ll write my way out… Overwhelm them with honesty.
This is the eye of the hurricane, this is the only Way I can protect my legacy…
COMPANY: Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait…
HAMILTON: The Reynolds Pamphlet
COMPANY: The Reynolds Pamphlet
JEFFERSON/MADISON/ANGELICA: Have you read this?
BURR/JEFFERSON/MADISON: Alexander Hamilton had a torrid affair
And he wrote it down right there
MADISON: Highlights!
HAMILTON/JEFFERSON: “The charge against me
Is a connection with one James Reynolds!
For purposes of Improper speculation
My real crime is an Amorous connection with his wife
For a considerable time With his knowing consent
MADISON/BURR/JEFFERSON: Damn!
HAMILTON/JEFFERSON/MADISON: “I had frequent meetings with her Most of them at my own house.”
BURR: At his own house!
MADISON: At his own house!
DEEP VOICE: Damn!
HAMILTON/JEFFERSON: “Mrs. Hamilton with our children being absent On a visit to her father.”
MADISON/BURR: No…
COMPANY: Boooo!
MADISON/BURR: Have you read this?
JEFFERSON: Well, he’s never gon’ be President now
MADISON/BURR: Never gon’ be President now
JEFFERSON: Well, he’s never gon’ be President now
MADISON/BURR: Never gon’ be President now
JEFFERSON: He’s never gon’ be President now
MADISON/BURR: Never gon’ be President now
JEFFERSON: That’s one less thing to worry about
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR: That’s one less thing to worry about!
ANGELICA: I came as soon as I heard
JEFFERSON: What?!
HAMILTON: Angelica
COMPANY: All the way from London?!
Damn
HAMILTON: Angelica, thank God
Someone who understands what I’m Struggling here to do
ANGELICA: I’m not here for you
COMPANY: Oooooh!
ANGELICA: I know my sister like I know my own mind
You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind I love my sister more than anything in this life
I will choose her happiness over mine every time
Put what we had aside I’m standing at her side
You could never be satisfied God, I hope you’re satisfied
JEFFERSON/MADISON/BURR: Well, he’s never gon’ be President now
That’s one less thing to worry about.
JEFFERSON/MADISON/HAMILTON: Hey!
At least he was honest with our money!
Well he’s never gon’ be President now
Hey!
At least he was honest with our money!
That’s one less thing to worry about.
The Reynolds Pamphlet
Have you read this?
You ever see somebody ruin their own life?
His poor wife
ELIZA HAMILTON I saved every letter you wrote me
From the moment I read them I knew you were mine
You said you were mine I thought you were mine
Do you know what Angelica said When we saw your first letter arrive?
She said: "Be careful with that one, love he will do what it takes to survive."
You and your words flooded my senses Your sentences left me defenseless
You built me palaces out of paragraphs You built cathedrals
I'm re-reading the letters you wrote me I'm searching and scanning for answers
In every line For some kind of sign
And when you were mine The world seemed to burn
Burn
You published the letters she wrote you You told the whole world how you brought this girl
Into our bed
In clearing your name You have ruined our lives
Do you know what Angelica said When she read what you'd done?
She said: "You have married an Icarus. He has flown too close to the sun."
You and your words obsessed with your legacy Your sentences border on senseless
And you are paranoid in every paragraph How they perceive you-
You, you, you
I'm erasing myself from the narrative Let future historians wonder
How Eliza reacted When you broke her heart
You have torn it all apart I'm watching it burn
Watching it burn
The world has no right to my heart The world has no place in our bed
They don't get to know what I said I'm burning the memories
Burning the letters that might have redeemed you
You forfeit all rights to my heart You forfeit the place in our bed
You'll sleep in your office instead
With only the memories of when you were mine
I hope that you burn
PHILIP: Meet the latest graduate of King’s College!
I prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but, dag, I amaze and astonish! The scholars say I got the same virtuosity and brains as my pops!
The ladies say my brain’s not where the resemblance stops! I’m only nineteen but my mind is older
Gotta be my own man, like my father, but bolder I shoulder his legacy with pride
I used to hear him say That someday I would—
ENSEMBLE: Blow us all away!
PHILIP: Ladies, I’m lookin for a Mr. George Eacker
Made a speech last week, our Fourth of July speaker He disparaged my father’s legacy in front of a crowd
I can’t have that, I’m making my father proud
MARTHA: I saw him just up Broadway a couple of blocks
He was goin’ to see a play
PHILIP: Well, I’ll go visit his box
DOLLY: God, you’re a fox
PHILIP: And y’all look pretty good in ya’ frocks
How ‘bout when I get back, we all strip down to our socks?
BOTH: Ok!
COMPANY: Blow us all away!
PHILIP: George!
GEORGE: Shh
PHILIP: George!
GEORGE: Shh! I’m tryin’ to watch the show!
PHILIP: Ya’ shoulda watched your mouth before you Talked about my father though!
GEORGE: I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true
You father’s a scoundrel, and so, it seems, are you
ENSEMBLE: Ooooooooooh!
PHILIP: It’s like that?
GEORGE: Yeah, I don’t fool around I’m not your little schoolboy friends
PHILIP: See you on the dueling ground
That is, unless you wanna step outside and go now
GEORGE: I know where to find you, piss off I’m watchin’ this show now
PHILIP: Pops, if you had only heard
The shit he said about you I doubt you would have let it slide and I was not about to—
HAMILTON: Slow down The shit he said about you I doubt you would have let it slide and I was not about to—
HAMILTON: Slow down
PHILIP: I came to ask you for advice. HAMILTON: Slow down
PHILIP: I came to ask you for advice.
This is my very first duel They don’t exactly cover this subject in boarding school
HAMILTON: Did your friends attempt to negotiate a peace?
PHILIP: He refused to apologize, we had to let the peace talks cease
HAMILTON: Where is this happening?
PHILIP: Across the river, in Jersey
HAMILTON/PHILIP: Everything is legal in New Jersey…
HAMILTON Alright.
So this is what you’re gonna do: Stand there like a man until Eacker is in front of you
When the time comes, fire your weapon in the air This will put an end to the whole affair
PHILIP: But what if he decides to shoot? Then I’m a goner
HAMILTON: No. He’ll follow suit if he’s truly a man of honor
To take someone’s life, that is something you can’t shake Philip, your mother can’t take another heartbreak
PHILIP: Father—
HAMILTON: Promise me. You don’t want this Young man’s blood on your conscience
PHILIP: Okay, I promise
HAMILTON: Come back home when you’re done
Take my guns. Be smart. Make me proud, son
PHILIP: My name is Philip
I am a poet I’m a little nervous, but I can’t show it
I’m sorry, I’m a Hamilton with pride You talk about my father, I cannot let it slide
Mister Eacker! How was the rest of your show?
GEORGE: I’d rather skip the pleasantries
Let’s go Grab your pistol
PHILIP: Confer with your men
The duel will commence after we count to ten
ENSEMBLE: Count to ten!
PHILIP: Look ‘em in the eye, aim no higher
Summon all the courage you require Then slowly and clearly aim your gun towards the sky—
MALE ENSEMBLE: One two three four
FULL ENSEMBLE: Five six seven
ENSEMBLE WOMEN: Stay alive…
HAMILTON: Where’s my son?
DOCTOR: Mr. Hamilton, come in.
They brought him in a half an hour ago. He lost a lot of blood on the way over.
HAMILTON: Is he alive? They brought him in a half an hour ago. He lost a lot of blood on the way over.
HAMILTON: Is he alive?
DOCTOR: Yes. But you have to understand
The bullet entered just above his hip and Lodged in his right arm
HAMILTON: Can I see him please? The bullet entered just above his hip and Lodged in his right arm
HAMILTON: Can I see him please?
DOCTOR: I’m doing ev’rything I can
But the wound was Already infected when he arrived—
HAMILTON: Philip
PHILIP: Pa
I did exactly as you said, Pa I held my head up high
HAMILTON: I know, I know. Shh, I know, I know
Shh. I know you did Ev’rything just right
PHILIP: Even before we got to ten
I was aiming for the sky
HAMILTON: I know, I know
PHILIP: I was aiming for the sky
HAMILTON: Shh, I know, I know I know
Save your strength and Stay alive…
ELIZA: No! Save your strength and Stay alive…
ELIZA: No!
HAMILTON: Eliza
ELIZA: Is he breathing? Is he going to survive this?
Who did this, Alexander, did you know?
PHILIP: Mom, I’m so sorry for forgetting what you taught me
ELIZA: My son
PHILIP: We played piano
ELIZA: I taught you piano
PHILIP: You would put your hands on mine
ELIZA: You changed the melody every time
PHILIP: Ha. I would always change the line
ELIZA: Shh. I know, I know
PHILIP: I would always change the line
ELIZA: I know, I know
ELIZA: Un deux trois quatre Cinq six sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Un deux trois quatre Cinq six sept huit neuf ELIZA: Un deux trois quatre Cinq six sept huit neuf
PHILIP: Un deux trois quatre Cinq six sept huit neuf
ELIZA: Good
Un deux trois quatre
PHILIP: Un deux trois…
ELIZA: Sept huit neuf— PHILIP: Un deux trois…
ELIZA: Sept huit neuf—
Sept huit…
ANGELICA: There are moments that the words don’t reach
There is suffering too terrible to name
You hold your child as tight as you can And push away the unimaginable
The moments when you’re in so deep It feels easier to just swim down
The Hamiltons move uptown And learn to live with the unimaginable
HAMILTON: I spend hours in the garden
I walk alone to the store And it’s quiet uptown
I never liked the quiet before
I take the children to church on Sunday A sign of the cross at the door
And I pray
That never used to happen before
WOMEN: If you see him in the street
Walking by himself, talking to himself Have pity
HAMILTON: Philip, you would like it uptown
It’s quiet uptown
WOMEN: He is working through the unimaginable
MEN: His hair has gone grey.
He passes every day They say he walks the length of the city
HAMILTON: You knock me out, I fall apart
COMPANY: Can you imagine?
HAMILTON: Look at where we are
Look at where we started
I know I don’t deserve you, Eliza But hear me out
That would be enough
If I could spare his life If I could trade his life for mine
He’d be standing here right now And you would smile
And that would be enough
I don’t pretend to know The challenges we’re facing
I know there’s no replacing what we’ve lost And you need time
But I’m not afraid
I know who I married
Just let me stay here by your side
That would be enough
COMPANY: If you see him in the street
Walking by her side, talking by her side Have pity
HAMILTON: Eliza, do you like it uptown? It’s quiet uptown
COMPANY: He is trying to do the unimaginable
See them walking in the park, long after dark Taking in the sights of the city
HAMILTON: Look around, look around, Eliza
COMPANY: They are trying to do the unimaginable
ANGELICA: There are moments that the words don’t reach
There is a grace too powerful to name We push away what we can never understand
We push away the unimaginable
They are standing in the garden Alexander by Eliza’s side
She takes his hand
ELIZA: It’s quiet uptown
COMPANY: Forgiveness. Can you imagine?
If you see him in the street, walking by her Side, talking by her side, have pity
They are going through the unimaginable
ENSEMBLE: The Election of 1800!
JEFFERSON: Can we get back to politics?
MADISON: Please?
JEFFERSON: Yo, every action has its equal opposite reaction
John Adams shat the bed I love the guy, but he’s in traction
Poor Alexander Hamilton, he is missing in action So now I’m facing Aaron Burr with his own faction
MADISON: He’s very attractive in the North New Yorkers like his chances
JEFFERSON: He’s not very forthcoming on any particular stances
MADISON: Ask him a question, it glances off He obfuscates, he dances
JEFFERSON: And they say I’m a Francophile At least they know I know where France is
MADISON: Thomas, that’s the problem See, they see Burr as a less extreme you
You need to change course A key endorsement might redeem you
JEFFERSON: Who did you have in mind?
MADISON: Don’t laugh
JEFFERSON: Who is it?
MADISON: You used to work on the same staff.
JEFFERSON: Whaaaat?
MADISON: It might be nice, it might be nice To get Hamilton on your side JEFFERSON: Whaaaat?
MADISON: It might be nice, it might be nice To get Hamilton on your side
JEFFERSON AND MADISON: It might be nice, it might be nice To get Hamilton on your side
AARON BURR: Talk less!
Smile more!
Don't let them know what you're against Or what you're for!
Shake hands with him!
Charm her!
It’s 1800 Ladies, tell your husbands, vote for Burr!
VARIOUS ENSEMBLE: I don’t like Adams!
Well, he’s gonna lose, that’s just defeatist.
And Jefferson? In love with France!
Yeah, he’s so elitist!
I like that Aaron Burr! I can’t believe we’re here with him!
He seems approachable? Like you could grab a beer with him
ENSEMBLE: Dear Mr. Hamilton
Your fellow Federalists Would like to know how you’ll be voting
HAMILTON: It’s quiet uptown…
ENSEMBLE: Dear Mr. Hamilton
John Adams doesn’t stand a chance, So who you are you promoting?
HAMILTON: It’s quiet uptown…
ENSEMBLE: Jefferson or Burr? Jefferson or Burr? We know, it’s lose/lose
Jefferson or Burr? Jefferson or Burr? But if you had to choose…
Dear Mr. Hamilton
John Adams doesn’t stand a chance So who you are you promoting?
But if you had to choose!
HAMILTON: Well, if isn’t Aaron Burr, sir.
BURR: Alexander!
HAMILTON: You’ve created quite a stir, sir.
BURR: I’m going door to door!
HAMILTON: You’re openly campaigning?
BURR: Sure!
HAMILTON: That’s new.
BURR: Honestly, it’s kind of draining
HAMILTON: Burr?
BURR: Sir?
HAMILTON: Is there anything you wouldn’t do?
BURR: No, I’m chasing what I want, and you know what?
HAMILTON: What?
BURR: I learned that from you
ENSEMBLE: If you had to choose, if you had to choose…
MADISON: It’s a tie
ENSEMBLE: If you had to choose, if you had to choose…
JEFFERSON: It’s up to the delegates
ENSEMBLE: If you had to choose, if you had to choose…
JEFFERSON AND MADISON: It’s up to Hamilton!
ENSEMBLE: If you had to choose, if you had to choose…
Jefferson or Burr? Jefferson or Burr? ENSEMBLE: If you had to choose, if you had to choose…
Jefferson or Burr? Jefferson or Burr?
Choose, choose, choose!
HAMILTON: Yo
The people are asking to hear my voice
But the country is facing a difficult choice
And you were to ask me who I’d promote…
…Jefferson has my vote
I have never agreed with Jefferson once…
We have fought on like 75 different fronts
But when all said and all is done…
Jefferson has beliefs; Burr has none
ENSEMBLE: Ooooh!
JEFFERSON AND MADISON: Well, I’ll be damned! Well, I’ll be damned!
MADISON: Hamilton’s on your side
ENSEMBLE: Well, I’ll be damned! Well, I’ll be damned!
MADISON: And… you won in a landslide
BURR: Congrats on a race well won
I did give you a fight.
JEFFERSON: Uh-huh…
BURR: I look forward to our partnership.
JEFFERSON: Our partnership?
BURR: As your vice president!
JEFFERSON: Yeah, right!
You hear this guy?
Man openly campaigns against me Talking ‘bout “I look forward to our partnership!”
MADISON: It is crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be vice president
JEFFERSON: Ooh! Y’know what, we can change that! Y’know why?
MADISON: Why?
JEFFERSON: ‘Cause I’m the president!
Burr, uh…
When you see Hamilton, thank him for the endorsement.
BURR: How does Hamilton
An arrogant Immigrant, orphan
Bastard, whoreson
Somehow endorse Thomas Jefferson, his enemy
A man he’s despised since the beginning Just to keep me from winning?
I wanna be in the room where it happens
The room where it happens The room where it happens
You’ve kept me from The room where it happens
For the last time
Dear Alexander:
I am slow to anger But I toe the line
As I reckon with the effects Of your life on mine
I look back on where I failed And in every place I checked
The only common thread has been your disrespect
Now you call me “amoral,” A “dangerous disgrace,”
If you’ve got something to say
Name a time and place Face to face
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant
A dot Burr
HAMILTON: Mr. Vice President:
I am not the reason no one trusts you No one knows what you believe
I will not equivocate on my opinion I have always worn it on my sleeve
Even if I said what you think I said You would need to cite a more specific grievance
Here’s an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements
BURR: Sweet Jesus
HAMILTON: Hey, I have not been shy
I am just a guy in the public eye Tryin’ to do my best for our republic
I don’t wanna fight But I won’t apologize for doing what’s right
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant
A dot Ham
BURR: Careful how you proceed, good man Intemperate indeed, good man
Answer for the accusations I lay at your feet or Prepare to bleed, good man
HAMILTON: Burr, your grievance is legitimate
I stand by what I said, every bit of it You stand only for yourself
It’s what you do I can’t apologize because it’s true
BURR: Then stand, Alexander
Weehawken. Dawn Guns. Drawn
HAMILTON: You’re on
BURR AND HAMILTON: I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant
HAMILTON: A dot Ham
BURR: A dot Burr
ELIZA: Alexander, come back to sleep
HAMILTON: I have an early meeting out of town
ELIZA: It's still dark outside
HAMILTON: I know, I just need to write something down
ELIZA: Why do you write like you're running out of time?
HAMILTON: Shh
ELIZA: Come back to bed, that would be enough
HAMILTON: I'll be back before you know I'm gone
ELIZA: Come back to sleep
HAMILTON: This meeting's at dawn
ELIZA: Well I'm going back to sleep
HAMILTON: Hey
Best of wives and best of women
MALE COMPANY: One two three four
FULL COMPANY: Five six seven eight nine—
BURR: There are ten things you need to know
COMPANY: Number one! BURR: There are ten things you need to know
COMPANY: Number one!
BURR: We rowed across the Hudson at dawn
My friend, William P. Van Ness signed on as my—
BURR AND COMPANY: Number two! My friend, William P. Van Ness signed on as my—
BURR AND COMPANY: Number two!
BURR: Hamilton arrived with his crew:
Nathaniel Pendleton and a doctor that he knew
COMPANY: Number three!
BURR: I watched Hamilton examine the terrain
I wish I could tell you what was happ’ning in his brain This man has poisoned my political pursuits!
COMPANY: Most disputes die and no one shoots!
Number four!
BURR: Hamilton drew first position
Looking, to the world, like a man on a mission This is a soldier with a marksman’s ability
The doctor turned around so he could have deniability
COMPANY: Five!
BURR: Now I didn’t know this at the time But we were—
BURR, PHILIP AND HAMILTON: Near the same spot Your/My son died, is that why -
COMPANY: Six! BURR, PHILIP AND HAMILTON: Near the same spot Your/My son died, is that why -
COMPANY: Six!
BURR: He examined his gun with such rigor?
I watched as he methodically fiddled with the trigger
COMPANY: Seven!
BURR: Confession time? Here’s what I got:
My fellow soldiers’ll tell you I’m a terrible shot
COMPANY: Number eight!
MEN: Your last chance to negotiate
Send in your seconds See if they can set the record straight
BURR: They won’t teach you this in your classes
But look it up, Hamilton was wearing his glasses
Why? If not to take deadly aim? It’s him or me, the world will never be the same
I had only one thought before the slaughter: This man will not make an orphan of my daughter
COMPANY: Number nine!
BURR: Look him in the eye, aim no higher
Summon all the courage you require Then count:
COMPANY: One two three four five six seven eight nine
Number ten paces! Fire!—
HAMILTON: I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
Is this where it gets me On my feet, sev’ral feet ahead of me?
I see it coming Do I run or fire my gun or let it be?
There is no beat, no melody
Burr, my first friend, my enemy Maybe the last face I ever see
If I throw away my shot Is this how you’ll remember me?
What if this bullet is my legacy?
Legacy.
What is a legacy?
It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see
I wrote some notes At the beginning of a song someone will sing for me
America, you great unfinished symphony You sent for me, you let me make a difference
A place where even orphan immigrants Can leave their fingerprints and rise up
I’m running out of time. I’m running, and my time’s up
Wise up! Eyes up!
I catch a glimpse of the other side Laurens leads a soldiers’ chorus on the other side
My son is on the other side He’s with my mother on the other side
Washington is watching from the other side Teach me how to say goodbye
Rise up, rise up, rise up!
Eliza
My love, take your time
I’ll see you on the other side
Raise a glass to freedom...
BURR AND COMPANY: He aims his pistol at the sky—
BURR: Wait!
I strike him right between his ribs
I walk towards him, but I am ushered away
They row him back across the Hudson
I get a drink
I hear wailing in the streets
Somebody tells me, “You’d better hide.”
They say
BURR AND ANGELICA: Angelica and Eliza—
BURR: Were both at his side when he died
Death doesn’t discriminate Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
History obliterates In every picture it paints
It paints me and all my mistakes
When Alexander aimed at the sky He may have been the first one to die
But I’m the one who paid for it
I survived, but I paid for it
Now I’m the villain in your history
I was too young and blind to see...
I should’ve known I should’ve known
The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me
WASHINGTON: Let me tell you what I wish I’d known
When I was young and dreamed of glory You have no control
Who lives, who dies Who tells your story?
BURR: President Jefferson:
JEFFERSON: I’ll give him this
His financial system is a work of genius. I couldn’t undo it if I tried
And I tried
COMPANY: Who lives, who dies Who tells your story?
BURR: President Madison:
MADISON: He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity
I hate to admit it, but he doesn’t get enough credit For all the credit he gave us
COMPANY: Who lives, who dies Who tells your story?
ANGELICA: Every other founding father's story gets told
Every other founding father gets to grow old
BURR: But when you’re gone, who remembers your name?
Who keeps your flame?
ENSEMBLE: Who tells your story?
WOMEN: Eliza
ELIZA: I put myself back in the narrative
WOMEN: Eliza
ELIZA: I stop wasting time on tears
I live another fifty years It’s not enough
COMPANY: Eliza I live another fifty years It’s not enough
COMPANY: Eliza
ELIZA: I interview every soldier who fought by your side COMPANY: Eliza
ELIZA: I interview every soldier who fought by your side
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS: She tells our story ELIZA: I interview every soldier who fought by your side
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS: She tells our story
ELIZA: I try to make sense Of your thousands of pages of writings MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS: She tells our story
ELIZA: I try to make sense Of your thousands of pages of writings
You really do write like you’re running out of time
I rely on—
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: Angelica
ELIZA: While she’s alive—
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: We tell your story
ELIZA: She is buried in Trinity Church
ELIZA AND ANGELICA: Near you
ELIZA: When I needed her most, she was right on time
ELIZA: And I’m still not through
I ask myself “What would you do if you had more time”
The Lord, in his kindness He gives me what you always wanted, he gives me more time
I raise funds in D.C. for the Washington Monument
WASHINGTON: She tells my story
ELIZA: I speak out against slavery WASHINGTON: She tells my story
ELIZA: I speak out against slavery
You could have done so much more If you only had time
And when my time is up, have I done enough?
Will they tell our story?
Oh. Can I show you what I’m proudest of?
COMPANY: The orphanage
ELIZA: I established the first private orphanage in New York City
COMPANY: The orphanage
ELIZA: I help to raise hundreds of children I get to see them growing up
COMPANY: The orphanage
ELIZA: In their eyes I see you, Alexander
I see you every time
And when my time is up Have I done enough?
Will they tell my story?
Oh, I can’t wait to see you again
It’s only a matter of time
COMPANY: Will they tell your story?
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?
Will they tell your story?
Who lives, who dies— Who tells your story?