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How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower
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Somehow defeat a global superpower?
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How do we emerge victorious from the quagmire
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Leave the battlefield waving Betsy Ross' flag higher?
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Yo, turns out we have a secret weapon
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An immigrant you know and love who's unafraid to step in
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He's constantly confusing, confounding the British henchmen
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Everyone give it up for America's favourite fighting Frenchman!
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Lafayette!
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I'm taking this horse by the reins
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Making redcoats redder with bloodstains
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Lafayette!
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And I'm never gonna stop until I make em drop
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And burn em up and scatter their remains, I'm
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Lafayette!
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Watch me engaging em, escaping em
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Enraging em! I'm
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Lafayette!
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I go to France for more funds
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Lafayette!
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I come back with more guns
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And ships
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And so the balance shifts
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We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts
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We can end this war in Yorktown, cut them off at sea
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But for this to succeed there is someone else we need
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I know
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Hamilton!
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Sir he knows what to do in a trench
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Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean
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Hamilton!
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Sir you're gonna have to use him eventually
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What's he gonna do on the bench? I mean
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Hamilton!
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No one has more resilience
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Or matches my practical tactical brilliance
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Hamilton!
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You want to fight for your land back?
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Hamilton!
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I need my right hand man back
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Hamilton
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Get your right hand man back
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You know you gotta get your right hand man back
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I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter
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But the sooner the better to get your right hand man back
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Alexander Hamilton
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Troops are waiting in the field for you
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If you join us right now together we can turn the tide
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Oh, Alexander Hamilton
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I have soldiers that will yield for you
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If we manage to get this right
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They'll surrender by early light
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The world will never be the same
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Alexander
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