Hamilton: An American Musical GENDERBENT Lyrics

The Battle of Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)

IT'S TIME! IT'S TIME! YEEEEEEEEEEEE! GET READY FOR GREATNESS! 

The Battle of Yorktown

1781

Madam Hamilton!

Madam Lafayette!

In command where you belong!

How you say "no sweat?"

Heh.

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

Immigrants: we get the job done.

So what happens when 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 girls.

See you on the other side!

Go give it a whirl! 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 am not throwin' away my shot! I am not throwin' away my shot!

'Till the world turns upside down!

'Till 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. A weapon in my hand, in command, brave women with me! Then I remember my Elijah's expecting me. Not only that my kid is expecting me! Gotta go, gotta get the job done, gotta start a new nation, meet my daughter or son!

Take the bullets out your gun!

What?

The bullets out your gun!

What?

We move undercover 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, girls, go!

And so the American experiment begins with my friends all scattered to the winds. Laurens is in South Carolina, redefinin' bravery.

We'll never be free until we end slavery!

(Slavery...) And 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—

HESTIA MULLIGAN

A tailor spyin' on the British government! I take their measurements, information, then I smuggle it!

Up!

To my sister's revolutionary covenant! I'm with the Daughters of Liberty and I am lovin' it! See that's what happens when you're up against the ruffians! We in the shit now, somebody's gotta shovel it! Hestia Mulligan! I need no introduction! When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again!

~Sounds of death and excitement~

Left! Right! Hold!

Go! What? What? What?

*do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do BUM BUM BUM*

After a week of fighting a young girl in a red coat stands on a parapet.

We lower our guns as she 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 Georgia Washington smile. We escort their girls 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 their 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, meet my daughter or son!

Down, down down—

We won!

We won!

We won!

WE WON!

The world turned upside DOWN! 

"Down" doesn't look like it should be a word now. 

Also I know I changed "if" to "when" at the beginning BUT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN "WHEN"