The battle of Yorktown.
1781
Monsieur Hamilton!
Monsieur 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 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 .... now,
somebody gotta shovel it!
Hercules Mulligan, I
need no introduction
When you knock me down I
get the .... 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!
