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's flag higher?

Yo, turns out we have a secret weapon

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

He's constantly confusing, confounding the British henchmen

Everyone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman

(Lafayette!) I'm taking this horse by the reins

Making redcoats redder with bloodstains

(Lafayette!) And I'm never gonna stop until I make 'em drop

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

(Lafayette!) Watch me engaging 'em

Escaping 'em, enraging '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 in Yorktown, cut them off at sea, but

For this to succeed, there's someone else we need

I know

(Hamilton!) Sir, he knows what to do in the trench

Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean

(Hamilton!) Sir, you're going to have to use him eventually

What's he going to do on the bench? I mean

(Hamilton!) No one has more resilience

Or matches my practical, tactical brilliance

(Hamilton!) You want to fight for your land back?

(Hamilton!) I need my right hand man back

(Hamilton!) Get your right hand man back

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

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

(Ha-Ha-Hamilton, Hamilton) 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