Guns and Ships

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!/

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/

We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts/

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

For this to succeed, there is someone else we need:/

I know/

Hamilton!/

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?/

I need my right hand man back!/

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!/

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…/