Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) - Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

(《 亚历山大·汉米尔顿》音乐剧插曲)

The battle of Yorktown 1781

Monsieur Hamilton

Monsieur Lafayette

In command where you belong

How you say no sweat

We're finally on the field we've had quite a run

Immigrants

We get the job done

So what happens if we win

I go back to France

I bring freedom to my people if I'm given the chance

We'll be with you when you do

Go lead your men

See you on the other side

'Til we meet again let's go

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

'Til the world turns upside down

'Til the world turns upside down

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

What

The bullets out your gun

What

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

Rochambeau

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

We'll never be free until we end slavery

When we finally drive the British away

Lafayette is there waiting

In Chesapeake Bay

How did we know that this plan would work

We had a spy on the inside

That's right

Hercules Mulligan

A tailor spyin'on the British government

I take their measurements information and then I smuggle it

Up

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 sh*t now somebody gotta shovel it

Hercules Mulligan I need no introduction

When you knock me down I get the f**k back up again

Left right hold

Go

What what what

After a week of fighting

A young man in a red coat stands on a parapet

We lower our guns as he frantically waves a white handkerchief

And just like that it's over we tend to our wounded we count our dead

Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom

Not yet

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

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down

Down

Down down down

Freedom for America freedom for France

Down down down

Gotta start a new nation

Gotta meet my son

Down down down

We won

We won

We won

The world turned upside down