[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[BURR]

Ladies and gentlemen

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[BURR]

The moment you’ve been waiting for

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[BURR]

He's fighting for his life

[ENSEMBLE]

Here comes the General!

[BURR]

George Washington!

[WASHINGTON]

We are outgunned

Outmanned

Outnumbered

Outplanned

Ayo, we gotta make an all-out stand

Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man. 

[ENSEMBLE]

What?

What?

Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!

 

Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!

[WASHINGTON]

Outgunned

Outmanned

Outnumbered

Outplanned

We gotta make an all-out stand

Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man. 

[ENSEMBLE]

What?

What?

Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!

 

Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!

[WASHINGTON]

Check it—

Can I be real a second?

For just a millisecond?

Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?

Now I’m the model of a modern major general

The venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all

Lining up, to put me up on a pedestal

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

[WASHINGTON]

We are outgunned

Outmanned

Outnumbered

Outplanned

We gotta make an all-out stand

Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man. 

[ENSEMBLE]

What?

What?

Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!

 

Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck! 

[WASHINGTON (and ENSEMBLE)]

Yo, Admiral Howe's got troops out on the water

32,000 troops in New York harbor

We got 10,000 troops, that makes it harder

When they surround our troops, they're gonna slaughter us and

Boom goes the canon, watch the blood and the shit spray and

Boom goes the canon, we're abandoning 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 I'd be of tactical assistance

I don't mean to brag but my dad was the

President of Princeton, so

I have some questions, a couple of suggestions

On how to fight instead of fleeing west

[WASHINGTON]

Next!

[BURR]

Wha—

[HAMILTON]

Your excellency, you wanted to see me?

[WASHINGTON]

Alexander Hamilton, come in. Aaron Burr was just leaving

[BURR]

Yes, well, I'm suited to the battlefield, I'd rather let that play out

[WASHINGTON]

Burr?

[BURR]

Sir?

[WASHINGTON]

Close the door on your way out

[BURR, whispered]

What a dick

[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

We fought together in Trenton, you helped us take the town

Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox both had their eye on you

You turned them both down, I'm wonderin' if I can rely on you

[HAMILTON]

Sir

[WASHINGTON]

Didn't mean to spy on you, but I have seen you 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]

Dyin' is easy, young man, livin' 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

[WASHINGTON]

We are outgunned

Outmanned

Outnumbered

Outplanned

You know we have to make an all-out stand

I'm askin' you to be my right-hand man. 

[ENSEMBLE]

What?

What?

Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!

 

Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck!