Hamilton - Yorktown The World Turned Upside Down

[Intro]
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      The battle of Yorktown.
Dm C G
     Seventeen eighty one

[Verse 1]
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Monsieur Hamilton
Monsieur Lafayette
C     G
In command where you belong
How you say, no sweat
      Dm
We're finally on the field.
We’ve had quite a run
C
G
Immigrants:
We get the job done
        Dm
So what happens if we win?
I go back to France
C       G
I bring freedom to my people if I’m given the chance
           Dm
We’ll be with you when you do
Go lead your men
C         G
I See you on the other side
                              Dm F G
‘Til we meet again, let’s go!

[Chorus]
Am C Dm F G Am C Dm F G
Am C Dm F

[Verse 2]
G          Dm
 I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
     C           G
This is where it gets me: on my feet
The enemy ahead of me
Dm
If this is the end of me,
                         C
at least I have a friend with me
G
Weapon in my hand, a command,
and my men with me
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  Then I remember my Eliza's expecting me..
.
G
 Not only that, my Eliza's expecting
Dm                                   C
  We gotta go, gotta get the job done
      G
Gotta start a new nation,
gotta meet my son!

[Chorus]
         Dm
Take the bullets out your gun!
F
What?
                     G
The bullets out your gun!
What?
        Am                 C       Dm
We move under cover and we move as one
Through the night,
                F                G
we have one shot to live another day
              Am             C         Dm
We cannot let a stray gunshot give us away
We will fight up close,
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seize the moment and stay in it
              Am                        C          Dm
It’s either that or meet the business end of a bayonet
    F
The code word is ‘Rochambeau,
’ dig me?
Rochambeau!
G
 You have your orders now, go, man, go!

[Verse 3]
    Dm                               C
And so the American experiment begins
        G
With my friends all scattered to the winds
              Dm
Laurens is in South Carolina,
           C
redefining brav’ry
        G
We’ll never be free until we end slavery!
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  When we finally drive the British away
    G
Lafayette is there waiting—
In Chesapeake Bay!
Dm
  How did we know that this plan would work?
C        G
We had a spy on the inside.
That’s right
         Dm
Hercules Mulligan!

[Chorus]
         F                       G
A tailor spyin’ on the British government!
             Am
I take their measurements,
       C               Dm
information and then I smuggle it
                   F             G
Up to my brother's revolutionary covenant
                Am                    C           Dm
I’m runnin’ with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin’
it!
See,
                      F                       G
that’s what happens when you up against the ruffians
   Am
We in the shit now,
    C          Dm
somebody gotta shovel it!
F
Hercules Mulligan,
I need no introduction
         G
When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!

[Interlude]
Dm F G Am C Dm
             F    G
Left! Right! Hold!
Am C Dm   F G
       Go!
     Am     C Dm     F Gsus4 Gsus2
What!  What!    What!

[Breakdown]
Dm
  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
Dm
  And just like that, it’s over.
               Gm
We tend to our wounded,
we count our dead
                Dm
Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means
freedom
Not. Yet
Dm
  We negotiate the terms of surrender
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     I see George Washington smile
Dm
  We escort their men out of Yorktown
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      They stagger home single file
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Tens of thousands of people flood the streets
There are screams and church bells ringing
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  And as our fallen foes  retreat
           Dsus2/A                 F         G
I hear the drinking song they’re singing…

[Outro]
    Dm                 C    G
The world turned upside down
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The world turned upside down
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The world turned upside down
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The world turned upside  down
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Down
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Down,   down, down
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Down, down, down
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Down, down, down
    F                  Csus2 G     Dm
The world turned upside       down!