Anthony Ramos credited as playing...
John Laurens • Philip Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton: Congrats to you, Lieutenant Colonel/I wish I had your command instead of manning George's journal.
- Aaron Burr: No, you don't.
- Alexander Hamilton: Yes, I do.
- Aaron Burr: Now, be sensible. From what I hear, you've made yourself indispensible.
- John Laurens: Well, well I heard you've got a special someone on the side, Burr.
- Alexander Hamilton: Is that so?
- John Laurens: What are you trying to hide, Burr?
- Aaron Burr: I should go.
- Alexander Hamilton: No, these guys should go. Leave us alone.
- [ushering Mulligan and Laurens away]
- Alexander Hamilton: It's all right, Burr. I wish you'd brought this girl with you tonight, Burr.
- Aaron Burr: You're very kind, but I'm afraid it's unlawful, sir.
- Alexander Hamilton: What do you mean?
- Aaron Burr: She's married.
- Alexander Hamilton: I see.
- Aaron Burr: She's married to a British officer.
- Alexander Hamilton: Oh, shit.
- John Laurens: I may not live to see our glory...
- Eliza Hamilton: Alexander? There's a letter to you from South Carolina.
- Alexander Hamilton: It's from John Laurens. I'll read it later.
- John Laurens: But I will gladly join the fight...
- Eliza Hamilton: No. It's from his father.
- Alexander Hamilton: His father?
- John Laurens: And when our children tell our story...
- Alexander Hamilton: Will you read it?
- John Laurens: They'll tell the story of tonight...
- Eliza Hamilton: [reading] "On Tuesday the 27th, my son was killed in a gunfight against British troops retreating from South Carolina. The war was already over. As you know, John dreamed of emancipating and recruiting three thousand men for the first all-black military regiment. His dream of freedom for these men die with him."
- John Laurens: Tomorrow there'll be more of us...
- Eliza Hamilton: Alexander, are you all right?
- Alexander Hamilton: I have so much work to do.
- Aaron Burr: How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman/Dropped in the middle/Of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean/By providence, impoverished, in squalor/Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
- John Laurens: The ten-dollar Founding Father/Without a father/Got a lot farther/By working a lot harder/By being a lot smarter/By being a self-starter/By 14, they placed him in charge of a trading charter.
- Marquis de Lafayette: And every day, while slaves were being slaughtered/And carted away across the waves/He struggled and kept his guard up/Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of/The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter.
- Hercules Mulligan: Then a hurricane came/And devastation reigned/Our man saw his future/Drip-dripping down the drain/Put a pencil to his temple/Connected it to his brain/And he wrote his first refrain/A testament to his pain.
- Aaron Burr: Well, the word got around/They said, "This kid is insane, man"/Took up a collection/Just to send him to the mainland/Get your education/Don't forget from whence you came/And the world's gonna know your name/What's your name, man?
- Alexander Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton/My name is Alexander Hamilton/And there's a million things I haven't done/But just you wait/Just you wait.
- Aaron Burr: The ship is in the harbor now/See if you can spot him/Another immigrant coming up from the bottom/His enemies destroyed his rep/America forgot him.
- Marquis de Lafayette, Hercules Mulligan: We fought with him.
- John Laurens: Me, I died for him.
- George Washington: Me, I trusted him.
- Peggy Schuyler, Angelica Schuyler, Eliza Hamilton: Me, I loved him.
- Aaron Burr: And me/I'm the damn fool that shot him.
- Alexander Hamilton: I'mma get a scholarship/To King's College/I probably shouldn't brag/But dag, I amaze and astonish/The problem is I got a lot of brains/But no polish/I gotta holler just to be heard/With every word I drop knowledge/I'm a diamond in the rough/A shiny piece of coal/Tryin' to reach my goal/My power of speech, unimpeachable/Only 19, but my mind is older/These New York City streets get colder/I shoulder every burden/Every disadvantage/I have learned to manage/I don't have a gun to brandish/I walk these streets famished/The plan is to fan this spark into a flame/But damn, it's getting dark/So let me spell out the name/I am the
- Alexander Hamilton, Marquis de Lafayette, Hercules Mulligan, John Laurens: A-L-E-X-A-N-D/E-R/We are meant to be.
- Alexander Hamilton: A colony that runs independently/Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin' on us endlessly/Essentially, they tax us relentlessly/Then King George turns around/Runs a spending spree/He ain't never gonna/Set his descendants free/So there will be a revolution in this century/Enter me.
- Marquis de Lafayette, Hercules Mulligan, John Laurens: He says in parentheses.
- Alexander Hamilton: And don't be shocked/When your history book mentions me/I will lay down my life/If it sets us free/Eventually you'll see my ascendancy/And I am not throwing away my shot.
- Philip Hamilton: Pops, if you had only heard the shit he said about you/I doubt you would have let it slide/And I was not about to.
- Alexander Hamilton: Slow down.
- Philip Hamilton: I came to ask you for advice/This is my very first duel/They don't exactly cover this subject in boarding school.
- Alexander Hamilton: Did your friends attempt to negotiate a peace?
- Philip Hamilton: He refused to apologize/We had to let the peace talks cease.
- Alexander Hamilton: Where is this happening?
- Philip Hamilton: Across the river in Jersey.
- Alexander Hamilton, Philip Hamilton: Everything is legal in New Jersey.
- Alexander Hamilton: All right. So, this is what you're gonna do. Stand there like a man/Until Eacker is in front of you/When the time comes/Fire your weapon in the air/This will put an end to the whole affair.
- Philip Hamilton: But what if he decides to shoot? Then I'm a goner.
- Alexander Hamilton: No, he'll follow suit if he's truly a man of honor/To take someone's life, that is something you can't shake/Philip, your mother can't take another heartbreak.
- Philip Hamilton: Father...
- Alexander Hamilton: Promise me. You don't want this young man's blood on your conscience.
- Philip Hamilton: Okay, I promise.
- Alexander Hamilton: Come back home when you're done/Take my guns, be smart/Make me proud, son.
- John Laurens: All right, all right! That's what I'm talking about! Now everyone, give it up for the maid of honor: Angelica Schuyler!
- Philip Hamilton: Meet the latest graduate of King's College/I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish/The scholars say I got the same virtuosity and brains as my pops/The ladies say my brain's not where the resemblance stops/I'm only 19, but my mind is older/Gotta be my own man/Like my father, but bolder.
- Philip Hamilton: Ladies, I'm looking for a Mr. George Eacker. Made a speech last week/Our Fourth of July speaker/He disparaged my father's legacy in front of a crowd/I can't have that/I'm making my father proud.
- Ensemble: I saw him just up Broadway/A couple of blocks/He was going to see a play.
- Philip Hamilton: Well, I'll go visit his box.
- Ensemble: God, you're a fox.
- Philip Hamilton: Y'all look pretty good in your frocks/How 'bout when I get back, we all strip down to our socks?
- Hercules Mulligan: Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice/And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis/I'm joining the rebellion 'cause I know it's my chance to socially advance/Instead of sewing some pants. I'm gonna take a...
- John Laurens, Alexander Hamilton, Hercules Mulligan: Shot!
- John Laurens: But we'll never be truly free/Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me/You and I, do or die/Wait 'til I sally in on a stallion/With the first black battalion. Have another...
- John Laurens, Alexander Hamilton, Hercules Mulligan: Shot!
- Aaron Burr: Geniuses, lower your voices/You keep out of trouble and you double your choices/I'm with you, but the situation is fraught/You've got to be carefully taught/If you talk, you're gonna get shot.
- Alexander Hamilton: Burr, check what we got/Mr. Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot/I think your pants look hot/Laurens, I like you a lot/Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot/What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot/Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not/A bunch of revolutionary Manumission abolitionists/Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is/Oh, am I talking too loud? Sometimes I get overexcited, shoot off at the mouth/I never had a group of friends before/I promise that I'll make y'all proud.
- John Laurens: Let's get this guy in front of a crowd.
- Philip Hamilton: George! George.
- George Eacker: [shushing him] I'm trying to watch the show.
- Philip Hamilton: You should've watched your mouth/Before you talked about my father, though.
- George Eacker: I didn't say anything that wasn't true. Your father's a scoundrel, and so, it seems, are you.
- Philip Hamilton: It's like that?
- George Eacker: Yeah, I don't fool around. I'm not your little schoolboy friends.
- Philip Hamilton: Well, see you on the dueling ground/That is, unless you wanna step outside and go now.
- George Eacker: I know where to find you, piss off. I'm watching the show now.
- John Laurens: Well, if it ain't the prodigy of Princeton College.
- Hercules Mulligan: Aaron Burr.
- John Laurens: Give us a verse, drop some knowledge.
- Aaron Burr: Good luck with that/You're takin' a stand/You spit, I'mma sit/We'll see where we land.
- John Laurens: Burr, the revolution's imminent/What do you stall for?
- Alexander Hamilton: If you stand for nothing, Burr, what'll you fall for?