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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
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 shit now
somebody gotta shovel it
Hercules Mulligan
I need no introduction
When you knock me down
I get the fuck 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
We won
The world turned upside down