Karaoké Right Hand Man Hamilton

British Admiral Howe's got troops on the water

Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor

Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor

When they surround our troops they surround our troops

When they surround our troops

As a kid in the Caribbean

I wished for a war

I knew that I was poor

I knew it was the only way to

Rise up

If they tell my story

I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or

Rise up, I will fight for this land but there's only one man who can give us a command so we can

Rise up

Understand

It's the only way to rise up, rise up

Here he comes ladies and gentlemen

Here comes the General

Here comes the General

The moment you've been waiting for

Here comes the General

The pride of Mount Vernon

George Washington

Here comes the General

We are outgunned

What? outmanned

What?

Outnumbered outplanned

We gotta make an all out stand

Ayo I'm gonna need a right-hand man

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

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

We are outgunned

What? outmanned

What?

Outnumbered outplanned

We gotta make an all out stand

Ayo I'm gonna need a right-hand man

Incoming

They're battering down the battery check the damages

We gotta stop 'em and rob 'em of their advantages

Let's take a stand with the stamina

God has granted us

Hamilton won't abandon ship

Yo, let's steal their cannons

Goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit spray and

Goes the cannon we're abandonin' Kips Bay and

There's another ship and

We just lost the southern tip and

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

Who are you?

Your excellency Sir

Aaron Burr, Sir

Permission to state my case?

As you were

Sir, I was a captain

Under General Montgomery until he caught a bullet

In the neck in Quebec and well in summary

I think that I could be of some assistance

I admire how you keep firing on the British

From a distance

Huh

I have some questions

A couple of suggestions on how to fight

Instead of fleeing west

Yes

Your excellency

You wanted to see me?

Hamilton, come in

Have you met Burr?

Yes Sir

We keep meeting

As I was saying, Sir

I look forward to seeing

Your strategy play out

Burr?

Sir?

Close the door on your way out

Have I done something wrong, Sir?

On the contrary

I called you here because our odds are beyond scary

Your reputation precedes you but I have to laugh

Sir?

Hamilton how come no one can get you on their staff?

Sir

Don't get me wrong

You're a young man of great renown

I know you stole

British cannons when we were still downtown

Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox wanted to hire you

To be their secretary?

I don't think so

Why are you upset?

It's alright you want to fight

I'm not you've got a hunger

I was just like you when I was younger

Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr

Yes

Dying is easy, young man living is harder

Why are you telling me this?

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, so?

I am not throwin' away my shot

I am not throwin' away my shot

Ayo I'm just like my country

I'm young scrappy and hungry

I am not throwing away my shot

Son we are outgunned, outmanned

You need all the help you can get

I have some friends

Laurens Mulligan

Marquis de Lafayette

OK, what else?

Outnumbered, outplanned

We'll need some spies on the inside

Some King's men who might let some things slide

I'll write to congress and tell 'em we need supplies

You rally the guys master the element of surprise

I'll rise above my station organize your information

'Till we rise to the occasion of our new nation

So here comes the General

Rise up

Here comes the General

Rise up

Rise up

Here comes the General

Here comes the General

What?

And his right hand man