Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
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Cast List:
Company | Lafayette | Hamilton | Ensemble | Laurens |
Mulligan | Washington | Men
COMPANY
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!
ENSEMBLE
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…
ENSEMBLE
‘Til the world turns upside down!
HAMILTON
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!
ENSEMBLE
What?
HAMILTON
The bullets out your gun!
ENSEMBLE
What?
HAMILTON
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?
ENSEMBLE
Rochambeau!
HAMILTON
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
HAMILTON/COMPANY
Hercules Mulligan!
MULLIGAN
A tailor spyin’ on the British government!
I take their measurements, information and then I smuggle it
COMPANY
Up
MULLIGAN
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!
COMPANY
Left! Right! Hold!
Go!
What! What! What!
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…
ALL MEN
The world turned upside down
FULL COMPANY
The world turned upside down
The world turned upside down
The world turned upside down
Down
Down, down, down
LAFAYETTE
Freedom for America, freedom for
France!
COMPANY
Down, down, down
HAMILTON
Gotta start a new nation
Gotta meet my son
COMPANY
Down, down, down
MULLIGAN
We won!
LAFAYETTE
We won!
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS
We won!
HAMILTON/WASHINGTON/MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS
We won!
COMPANY
The world turned upside down!