Hamilton (2020)

Anthony Ramos: John Laurens, Philip Hamilton

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• Alexander Hamilton : Congrats to you, Lieutenant Colonel/I wish I had your command instead of manning George's journal.

  Aaron Burr : No, you don't.

  Alexander Hamilton : Yes, I do.

  Aaron Burr : Now, be sensible. From what I hear, you've made yourself indispensible.

  John Laurens : Well, well I heard you've got a special someone on the side, Burr.

  Alexander Hamilton : Is that so?

  John Laurens : What are you trying to hide, Burr?

  Aaron Burr : I should go.

  Alexander Hamilton : No, these guys should go. Leave us alone.

  [ushering Mulligan and Laurens away] 

  Alexander Hamilton : It's all right, Burr. I wish you'd brought this girl with you tonight, Burr.

  Aaron Burr : You're very kind, but I'm afraid it's unlawful, sir.

  Alexander Hamilton : What do you mean?

  Aaron Burr : She's married.

  Alexander Hamilton : I see.

  Aaron Burr : She's married to a British officer.

  Alexander Hamilton : Oh, shit.

• John Laurens : I may not live to see our glory...

  Eliza Hamilton : Alexander? There's a letter to you from South Carolina.

  Alexander Hamilton : It's from John Laurens. I'll read it later.

  John Laurens : But I will gladly join the fight...

  Eliza Hamilton : No. It's from his father.

  Alexander Hamilton : His father?

  John Laurens : And when our children tell our story...

  Alexander Hamilton : Will you read it?

  John Laurens : They'll tell the story of tonight...

  Eliza Hamilton : [reading]  "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 three thousand men for the first all-black military regiment. His dream of freedom for these men die with him."

  John Laurens : Tomorrow there'll be more of us...

  Eliza Hamilton : Alexander, are you all right?

  Alexander Hamilton : I have so much work to do.

• 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 working a lot harder/By being a lot smarter/By being a self-starter/By 14, they placed him in charge of a trading charter.

  Marquis de Lafayette : 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.

  Hercules Mulligan : Then a hurricane came/And devastation reigned/Our man saw his future/Drip-dripping 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.

  Aaron 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/But just you wait/Just you wait.

• Aaron Burr : The ship is in the harbor now/See if you can spot him/Another immigrant coming up from the bottom/His enemies destroyed his rep/America forgot him.

  Marquis de Lafayette , Hercules Mulligan : We fought with him.

  John Laurens : Me, I died for him.

  George Washington : Me, I trusted him.

  Peggy Schuyler , Angelica Schuyler , Eliza Hamilton : Me, I loved him.

  Aaron Burr : And me/I'm the damn fool that shot him.

• Alexander Hamilton : I'mma get a 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 19, but my mind is older/These New York City streets get colder/I shoulder every burden/Every 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 the name/I am the

  Alexander Hamilton , Marquis de Lafayette , Hercules Mulligan , John Laurens : A-L-E-X-A-N-D/E-R/We are meant to be.

  Alexander Hamilton : A colony that runs independently/Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin' 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.

  Marquis de Lafayette , Hercules Mulligan , John Laurens : He says in parentheses.

  Alexander Hamilton : And 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.

• Philip Hamilton : 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.

  Alexander Hamilton : Slow down.

  Philip Hamilton : I came to ask you for advice/This is my very first duel/They don't exactly cover this subject in boarding school.

  Alexander Hamilton : Did your friends attempt to negotiate a peace?

  Philip Hamilton : He refused to apologize/We had to let the peace talks cease.

  Alexander Hamilton : Where is this happening?

  Philip Hamilton : Across the river in Jersey.

  Alexander Hamilton , Philip Hamilton : Everything is legal in New Jersey.

  Alexander Hamilton : All right. 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 Hamilton : But what if he decides to shoot? Then I'm a goner.

  Alexander 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 Hamilton : Father...

  Alexander Hamilton : Promise me. You don't want this young man's blood on your conscience.

  Philip Hamilton : Okay, I promise.

  Alexander Hamilton : Come back home when you're done/Take my guns, be smart/Make me proud, son.

• John Laurens : All right, all right! That's what I'm talking about! Now everyone, give it up for the maid of honor: Angelica Schuyler!

• Philip Hamilton : Meet the latest graduate of King's College/I probably 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 19, but my mind is older/Gotta be my own man/Like my father, but bolder.

• Philip Hamilton : Ladies, I'm looking 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.

  Ensemble : I saw him just up Broadway/A couple of blocks/He was going to see a play.

  Philip Hamilton : Well, I'll go visit his box.

  Ensemble : God, you're a fox.

  Philip Hamilton : Y'all look pretty good in your frocks/How 'bout when I get back, we all strip down to our socks?

• Hercules Mulligan : Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice/And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis/I'm joining the rebellion 'cause I know it's my chance to socially advance/Instead of sewing some pants. I'm gonna take a...

  John Laurens , Alexander Hamilton , Hercules Mulligan : Shot!

  John Laurens : 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 'til I sally in on a stallion/With the first black battalion. Have another...

  John Laurens , Alexander Hamilton , Hercules Mulligan : Shot!

  Aaron 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.

  Alexander 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/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 talking too loud? Sometimes I get overexcited, shoot off at the mouth/I never had a group of friends before/I promise that I'll make y'all proud.

  John Laurens : Let's get this guy in front of a crowd.

• Philip Hamilton : George! George.

  George Eacker : [shushing him]  I'm trying to watch the show.

  Philip Hamilton : You should've watched your mouth/Before you talked about my father, though.

  George Eacker : I didn't say anything that wasn't true. Your father's a scoundrel, and so, it seems, are you.

  Philip Hamilton : It's like that?

  George Eacker : Yeah, I don't fool around. I'm not your little schoolboy friends.

  Philip Hamilton : Well, see you on the dueling ground/That is, unless you wanna step outside and go now.

  George Eacker : I know where to find you, piss off. I'm watching the show now.

• John Laurens : Well, if it ain't the prodigy of Princeton College.

  Hercules Mulligan : Aaron Burr.

  John Laurens : Give us a verse, drop some knowledge.

  Aaron Burr : Good luck with that/You're takin' a stand/You spit, I'mma sit/We'll see where we land.

  John Laurens : Burr, the revolution's imminent/What do you stall for?

  Alexander Hamilton : If you stand for nothing, Burr, what'll you fall for?