- [first lines]
- King George: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your king, George III. Welcome to "Hamilton." At this time, please silence all cell phones and other electronic devices. All photography and video recording is strictly prohibited. Thank you, and enjoy *my* show.
- Alexander Hamilton: I imagine death so much/It feels more like a memory/Is this where it gets me/On my feet, several feet ahead of me? I see it coming/Do I run or fire my gun or let it be?/There is no beat, no melody/Burr, my first friend, my enemy/Maybe the last face I ever see/If I throw away my shot/Is this how you remember me?/What if this bullet is my legacy?/Legacy. What is a legacy?/It's planting seeds in a garden/You never get to see/I wrote some notes/At the beginning of a song/Someone will sing for me/America, you great unfinished symphony/You sent for me/You let me make a difference/A place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise up/I'm running out of time/I'm running and my time's up/Wise up, eyes up/I catch a glimpse of the other side/Laurens leads soldiers' chorus on the other side/My son is on the other side/He's with my mother on the other side/Washington is watching from the other side/Teach me how to say goodbye/Rise up. Rise up. Rise up./Eliza! My love, take your time./I'll see you on the other side.
- Marquis de Lafayette: Monsieur Hamilton.
- Alexander Hamilton: Monsieur Lafayette.
- Marquis de Lafayette: In command, where you belong.
- Alexander Hamilton: How you say? No sweat. We're finally on the field/We've had quite a run.
- Marquis de Lafayette: Immigrants.
- Alexander Hamilton, Marquis de Lafayette: We get the job done.
- Alexander Hamilton: So, what happens if we win?
- Marquis de Lafayette: I go back to France/I bring freedom to my people/If I am given the chance.
- Alexander Hamilton: We'll be with you when you do.
- Marquis de Lafayette: Go, lead your men.
- Alexander Hamilton: See you on the other side.
- Marquis de Lafayette: 'Til we meet again.
- 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.
- Alexander Hamilton: I am not throwing away my shot/I am not throwing away my shot/Hey, yo, I'm just like my country/I'm young, scrappy, and hungry/And I'm not throwing away my shot.
- Alexander Hamilton: Mr. President, you asked to see me?
- George Washington: I know you're busy.
- Alexander Hamilton: What do you need, sir? Sir?
- George Washington: I wanna give you a word of warning.
- Alexander Hamilton: Sir, I don't know what you heard, but whatever it is, Jefferson started it.
- Aaron Burr: I strike him right between his ribs/I walk towards him/But I am ushered away/They row him back across the Hudson/I get a drink/I hear wailing in the streets/Somebody tells me "You'd better hide"/They say Angelica and Eliza were both at his side when he died/Death doesn't discriminate/Between the sinners and the saints/It takes and it takes and it takes/History obliterates/In every picture it paints/It paints me in all my mistakes/When Alexander aimed at the sky/He may have been the first one to die/But I'm the one who paid for it/I survived, but I paid for it/Now I'm the villain in your history/I was too young and blind to see/I should've known, I should've known the world was wide enough/For both Hamilton and me/The world was wide enough/For both Hamilton and me.
- Alexander Hamilton: Where are you taking me?
- Angelica Schuyler: I'm about to change your life.
- Alexander Hamilton: Then by all means, lead the way.
- Eliza Hamilton: Elizabeth Schuyler. It's a pleasure to meet you.
- Alexander Hamilton: Schuyler?
- Angelica Schuyler: My sister.
- Eliza Hamilton: Thank you for all your service.
- Alexander Hamilton: If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.
- Aaron Burr: The Contitution's a mess.
- Alexander Hamilton: So it needs amendments.
- Aaron Burr: It's full of contradictions.
- Alexander Hamilton: So is independence. We have to start somewhere.
- Aaron Burr: No. No way.
- Alexander Hamilton: You're making a mistake.
- Aaron Burr: Good night.
- Alexander Hamilton: Hey, what are you waiting for? What do you stall for?
- Aaron Burr: What?
- Alexander Hamilton: We won the war. What was it all for? Do you support this Constitution?
- Aaron Burr: Of course.
- Alexander Hamilton: Then defend it.
- Aaron Burr: What if you're backing the wrong horse?
- Alexander Hamilton: Burr, we studied and we fought, and we killed for the notion of a nation/We now get to build for once in your life/Take a stand with pride/I don't understand how you stand to the side.
- Aaron Burr: Congrats on a race well-run. I did give you a fight.
- Thomas Jefferson: Uh-huh.
- Aaron Burr: I look forward to our partnership.
- Thomas Jefferson: Our partnership?
- Aaron Burr: As your vice president.
- Thomas Jefferson: Ha! Yeah, right.
- [to Madison]
- Thomas Jefferson: You hear this guy? Man openly campaigns against me, talkin' 'bout "I look forward to our partnership."
- James Madison: It is crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be vice president.
- Thomas Jefferson: Ooh. You know what? We can change that. You know why?
- James Madison: Why?
- Thomas Jefferson: 'Cause I'm the president. Burr, uh, when you see Hamilton, thank him for the endorsement.
- George Washington: Let me tell you what I wish I'd known/When I was young and dreamed of glory/You have no control/Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?
- Aaron Burr: President Jefferson.
- Thomas Jefferson: I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I tried.
- Aaron Burr: President Madison.
- James Madison: He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit that he gave us.
- Thomas Jefferson: Did you forget Lafayette?
- Alexander Hamilton: What?
- Thomas Jefferson: Have you an ounce of regret? You accumulate debt/You accumulate power/Yet in their hour of need, you forget.
- Alexander Hamilton: Lafayette's a smart man. He'll be fine. And before he was your friend, he was mine. If we try to fight/In every revolution in the world/We never stop/Where do we draw the line?
- Thomas Jefferson: So quick-witted.
- Alexander Hamilton: Alas, I admit it.
- Thomas Jefferson: I bet you were quite a lawyer.
- Alexander Hamilton: My defendants got acquitted.
- Thomas Jefferson: Well, someone ought to remind you.
- Alexander Hamilton: What?
- Thomas Jefferson: You're nothing without Washington behind you.
- George Washington: Hamilton.
- Thomas Jefferson: Daddy's calling.
- Aaron Burr: Dear Alexander/I am slow to anger/But I toe the line/As I reckon with the effects/Of your life on mine/I look back on where I failed/And in every place I checked/The only common thread has been your disrespect/Now you call me ammoral/A dangerous disgrace/If you've got something to say/Name a time and place/Face to face. I have the honor to be/Your obediant servant/A. Burr.
- Alexander Hamilton: Mr. Vice President/I am not the reason no one trusts you/No one knows what you believe/I will not equivocate on my opinion/I have always worn it on my sleeve/Even if I said what you think I said/You would need to cite/A more specific grievance/Here's an itemzied list/Of 30 years of disagreements.
- Aaron Burr: Sweet Jesus.
- Alexander Hamilton: Hey, I have not been shy/I am just a guy in the public eye/Trying to do my best for our republic/I don't wanna fight/But I won't apologize/For doing what's right/I have the honor to be/Your obediant servant/A. Ham.
- Aaron Burr: Careful how you proceed, good man/Intemperate indeed, good man/Answer for the accusations I lay at your feet/Or prepare to bleed, good man.
- Alexander Hamilton: Burr, your greivance is legitimate/I stand by what I said/Every bit of it/You stand only for yourself/It's what you do/I can't apologize because it's true.
- Aaron Burr: Then stand, Alexander. Weehawken. Dawn. Guns. Drawn.
- Alexander Hamilton: You're on.
- Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr: I have the honor to be/Your obediant servant.
- Alexander Hamilton: A. Ham.
- Aaron Burr: A. Burr.
- Alexander Hamilton: Burr, you're a better lawyer than me.
- Aaron Burr: Okay.
- Alexander Hamilton: I know I talk too much, I'm abrasive/You're incredible in court-You're succinct, persuasive/My client needs a strong defense/You're the solution.
- Aaron Burr: Uh, who's your client?
- Alexander Hamilton: The new U.S. Constitution.
- Aaron Burr: No.
- Alexander Hamilton: Hear me out.
- Aaron Burr: No way.
- Alexander Hamilton: A series of essays, anonymously published/Defending the document to the public.
- Aaron Burr: No one'll read it.
- Alexander Hamilton: I disagree.
- Aaron Burr: And if it fails?
- Alexander Hamilton: Burr, that's why we need it.
- King George: They say George Washington's yielding his power and stepping away. Is that true? I wasn't aware that was something/A person could do. I'm perplexed/Are they going to keep on replacing whoever's in charge?/If so, who's next? There's nobody else in their
- [air quotes]
- King George: "country"/Who looms quite as large.
- [an aide comes on stage and whispers in his ear]
- King George: What?
- [she whispers again]
- King George: John Adams? I know him/That can't be/That's that little guy who spoke to me/All those years ago/What was it? '85/That poor man, they're going to eat him alive/Oceans rise, empires fall/Next to Washington, they all look small/All alone/Watch them run/They will tear each other into pieces/Jesus Christ, this will be fun.
- [scatting, he then laughs hysterically]
- King George: President John Adams? Good luck.
- King George: You'll be back, soon you'll see. You'll remember you belong to me. You'll be back, time will tell. You'll remember that I served you well. Oceans rise, empires fall. We have seen each other through it all. And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love! Da da da dat da, dat da da da da ya da, Da da dat dat da ya da! Da da da dat da, dat da da da da ya da. Da da dat dat da...
- Marquis de Lafayette: I dream of France without a monarchy/The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"/Onarchy? How you say? How you... oh, anarchy!
- George Washington: This war is hard enough without infighting.
- Alexander Hamilton: Lee called you out. We called his bluff.
- George Washington: You solve nothing. You aggravate our allies to the south.
- Alexander Hamilton: You're absolutely right. John should've shot him in the mouth. That would've shut him up.
- George Washington: The issue on the table: France is on the verge of war with England. Now, do we commit money and aid to our French allies, or do we stay out of it? Remember, my decision on this matter is not subject to congressional approval. The only one you have to convince is me. Secretary Jefferson, you have the floor, sir.
- Thomas Jefferson: When we were on death's door/When we were needy/We made a promise/We signed a treaty/We needed money and guns/And half a chance/Uh, who provided those funds?
- James Madison: France.
- Thomas Jefferson: In return, they didn't ask for land/Only a promise that we'd lend a hand/And stand with them/If they fought against oppressors/And revolution is messy/But now is the time to stand/Stand with our brothers/As they fight against tyranny/I know that Alexander Hamilton is here/And he would rather not have this debate/I'll remind you that he is not Secretary of State. He knows nothing of loyalty/Smells like new money/Dresses like fake royalty/Desperate to rise above his station/Everything he does betrays the ideals of our nation/Ay, and if you don't know, now you know, Mr. President.
- George Washington: Thank you, Secretary Jefferson. Secretary Hamilton, your response.
- Alexander Hamilton: You must be outta your god damn mind/If you think the president is gonna bring the nation to the brink/Of meddling in the middle of a military mess/A game of chess/Where France is queen and kingless/We signed a treaty with a king/Whose head is now in a basket/Would you like to take it out/And ask it? Oh, should we honor our treaty, King Louis' head?/"Ah, do whatever you want/I'm super dead."
- George Washington: Hamilton is right.
- Thomas Jefferson: Mr. President...
- George Washington: We're too fragile/To start another fight.
- Thomas Jefferson: Sir, do we not fight for freedom?
- George Washington: Sure, when the French figure out/Who's gonna lead 'em.
- Thomas Jefferson: The people are leading.
- George Washington: The people are rioting. There's a difference. Frankly, it's a little disquieting. You would let your ideals/Blind you to reality. Hamilton?
- Alexander Hamilton: Sir.
- George Washington: Draft a statement of neutrality.
- Aaron Burr: They won't teach you this in your classes/But look it up/Hamilton was wearing his glasses/Why, if not to take deadly aim? It's him or me/The world will never be the same/I had only one thought before the slaughter/This man will not make an orphan of my daughter.
- 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: Hamilton's out of control.
- James Madison: This is great. He's out of power, he holds no office, and he just destroyed President John Adams, the only other significant member of his party.
- Thomas Jefferson: Hamilton is a host unto himself. As long as he can hold a pen, he's a threat. Let's let him know what we know.
- George Washington: Thomas Jefferson resigned this morning.
- Alexander Hamilton: You're kidding.
- George Washington: I need a favor.
- Alexander Hamilton: Whatever you say, sir/Jefferson will pay for his behavior.
- George Washington: Shh. Talk less.
- Alexander Hamilton: I'll use the press/I'll write under a pseudonym/You'll see what I can do to him.
- George Washington: I need you to draft an address.
- Alexander Hamilton: Yes, he resigned/You can finally speak your mind.
- George Washington: No, he's stepping down/So he can run for president.
- Alexander Hamilton: Ha! Good luck defeating you, sir.
- George Washington: I'm stepping down/I'm not running for president.
- Alexander Hamilton: I'm sorry, what?
- 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.
- Alexander Hamilton: Pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, sir?
- Aaron Burr: That depends. Who's asking?
- Alexander Hamilton: Oh, well, sure/Sir, I'm Alexander Hamilton/I'm at your service, sir/I have been looking for you.
- Aaron Burr: I'm getting nervous.
- Alexander Hamilton: Sir, I heard your name at Princeton/I was seeking an accelerated course of study/When I got sort of out of sorts/With a buddy of yours/I may have punched him/It's a blur, sir/He handles the financials.
- Aaron Burr: You punched the bursar?
- Alexander Hamilton: The people are asking to hear my voice/The country is facing a difficult choice/And if you were to ask me who I'd promote/Jefferson has my vote. I have never agreed with Jefferson once/We have fought on, like, 75 different fronts/But when all is said and all is done/Jefferson has beliefs, Burr has none.
- Alexander Hamilton: Mr. Vice President. Mr. Madison. Senator Burr. What is this?
- Thomas Jefferson: We have the check stubs from separate accounts.
- James Madison: Almost a thousand dollars paid in different amounts.
- Aaron Burr: To a Mr. James Reynolds way back in 1791.
- Alexander Hamilton: Is that what you have? Are you done?
- James Madison: You are uniquely situated by virtue of your position...
- Thomas Jefferson: Though "virtue" is not a word I'd apply to this situation.
- James Madison: To seek financial gain/To stray from your sacred mission.
- Thomas Jefferson: And the evidence suggests/You've engaged in speculation.
- Aaron Burr: An immigrant embezzling our government funds.
- Thomas Jefferson, James Madison: I can almost see the headline/Your career is done.
- Aaron Burr: I hope you saved some money/For your daughter and sons.
- Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison: You best g'wan run back where you come from.
- Alexander Hamilton: Ha! You don't even know what you're asking me to confess.
- Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison: Confess.
- Alexander Hamilton: You have nothing/ I don't have to tell you anything at all/Unless...
- Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison: Unless...
- Alexander Hamilton: If I can prove/That I never broke the law/Do you promise not to tell/Another soul what you saw?
- Aaron Burr: No one else was in the room where it happened.
- Alexander Hamilton: Is that a yes?
- Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison: Um, yes.
- Samuel Seabury: Hear ye, hear ye! My name is Samuel Seabury, and I present "Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress." Heed not the rabble who scream revolution/They have not your interests at heart.
- Hercules Mulligan: Oh, my god, tear this dude apart.
- Samuel Seabury: Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution/Don't let them lead you astray/This congress does not speak for me.
- Aaron Burr: [stopping Hamilton] Let him be.
- Samuel Seabury: They're playing a dangerous game/I pray the king shows you his mercy/For shame/For shame.
- Alexander Hamilton: [in counterpoint] Yo, he'd have you all unravel/At the screams/But the revolution is coming/The have-nots are gonna win this/It's hard to listen to you with a straight face.
- Samuel Seabury: Heed not the rabble who scream revolution/They have not your interests at heart.
- Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Seabury: Chaos and bloodshed...
- Alexander Hamilton: Already haunt us/Honestly, you shouldn't even talk.
- Samuel Seabury: Are not a solution/Don't let them lead you astray.
- Alexander Hamilton: And what about Boston? Look at the cost and all that we've lost/And you talk about Congress.
- Samuel Seabury: This congress does not speak for me.
- Alexander Hamilton: My dog speaks more eloquently than thee.
- Samuel Seabury: They're playing a dangerous game.
- Alexander Hamilton: But strangely, your mange is the same.
- Samuel Seabury: I pray the king shows you his mercy.
- Alexander Hamilton: Is he in Jersey?
- Samuel Seabury: For shame/For shame!/Heed...
- Alexander Hamilton: For the revolution/If you repeat yourself again, I'm gonna...
- Samuel Seabury: Scream.
- Alexander Hamilton: Honestly, look at me/Please don't read.
- Samuel Seabury: Not your interests at...
- Alexander Hamilton: Don't modulate the key/Then not debate with me/Why should a tiny island across the sea regulate the price of tea?
- Aaron Burr: Alexander, please.
- Alexander Hamilton: Burr, I'd rather be divisive than indecisive. Drop the niceties.
- Alexander Hamilton: Burr, since when are you a Democratic-Republican?
- Aaron Burr: Since being one put me on the up-and-up again.
- Alexander Hamilton: No one knows who you are/Or what you do.
- Aaron Burr: Hey, they don't need to know me/They don't like you.
- Alexander Hamilton: Excuse me?
- Aaron Burr: Oh, Wall Street thinks you're great/You'll always be adored by the things you create/But upstate...
- Alexander Hamilton: Wait.
- Aaron Burr: People think you're crooked. And Schuyler's seat was up for grabs, so I took it.
- Alexander Hamilton: I've always considered you a friend.
- Aaron Burr: I don't see why that has to end.
- Alexander Hamilton: You changed parties/To run against my father-in-law.
- Aaron Burr: I changed parties/To seize the opportunity I saw/I swear, your pride will be the death of us all/Beware, it goeth before the fall.
- George Washington: You wanna pull yourself together?
- Alexander Hamilton: I'm sorry. These Virginians are birds of a feather.
- George Washington: Young man, I'm from Virginia. So watch your mouth.
- Alexander Hamilton: So we let Congress get held hostage by the South?
- George Washington: You need the votes.
- Alexander Hamilton: No, we need bold strokes. We need this plan.
- George Washington: No, you need to convince more folks.
- Alexander Hamilton: Well, James Madison won't talk to me. That's a nonstarter.
- George Washington: Ah. Winning was easy, young man. Governing's harder.
- Alexander Hamilton: They're being intransigent.
- George Washington: You have to find a compromise.
- Alexander Hamilton: They don't have a plan. They just hate mine!
- George Washington: Convince them otherwise.
- Alexander Hamilton: And what happens if I don't get congressional approval?
- George Washington: I imagine they'll call for your removal.
- Alexander Hamilton: Sir.
- George Washington: Figure it out, Alexander. That's an order from your commander.
- 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.
- Alexander Hamilton: I wanted to do what you did/Graduate in two/Then join the revolution/He looked at me like I was stupid/I'm not stupid/So, how'd you do it?/How'd you graduate so fast?
- Aaron Burr: It was my parents' dying wish before they passed.
- Alexander Hamilton: You're an orphan/Of course/I'm an orphan/God, I wish there was a war/Then we could prove that we're worth more than anyone bargained for.
- Aaron Burr: Can I buy you a drink?
- Alexander Hamilton: That would be nice.
- Aaron Burr: While we're talking/Let me offer you some free advice/Talk less.
- Alexander Hamilton: What?
- Aaron Burr: Smile more.
- Alexander Hamilton: Ha.
- Aaron Burr: Don't let them know/What you're against or what you're for.
- Alexander Hamilton: You can't be serious.
- Aaron Burr: You wanna get ahead?
- Alexander Hamilton: Yes.
- Aaron Burr: Fools who run their mouths off/Wind up dead.
- Aaron Burr: What did they say to you to get you to sell New York City down the river?/Did Washington know about the dinner/Was there presidential pressure to deliver?/Or did you know even then it doesn't matter where you put the U.S. capital?
- Alexander Hamilton: 'Cause we'll have the banks/We're in the same spot.
- Aaron Burr: You got more than you gave.
- Alexander Hamilton: And I wanted what I got/When you got skin in the game/You stay in the game/But you don't get a win unless you play in the game/Oh, you get love for it/You get hate for it/You get nothing if you
- Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr: [with the company] Wait for it, wait for it, wait.
- Alexander Hamilton: God help and forgive me/I wanna build something that's gonna outlive me/What do you want, Burr? What do you want, Burr?/If you stand for nothing, Burr, what do you fall for?
- Aaron Burr: I... I wanna be in the room where it happens/The room where it happens/I... wanna be in the room where it happens/The room where it happens/I, I wanna be in the room where it happens/I... I wanna be in the room where it happens.
- Aaron Burr: [reading James Reynolds' extortion letter] "Dear sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health, and in a prosperous enough position to put wealth in the pockets of people like me down on their luck. You see, that was my wife who you decided to..."
- Thomas Jefferson: [in surprise and shock] Whaaaat?
- Alexander Hamilton: She courted me, escorted me to bed/And when she had me in a corner/That's when Reynolds extorted me/For a sordid fee, I paid him quarterly/I may have mortally wounded my prospects/But my papers are orderly/As you can see, I kept a record of every check in my checkered history/Check it against your list and see consistency/I never spent a cent that wasn't mine/You sent the dogs after my scent, that's fine/Yes, I have reasons for shame/But I have not committed treason and sullied my good name/As you can see, I have done nothing to provoke legal action/Are my answers to your satisfaction?
- Thomas Jefferson: My God.
- James Madison: Gentlemen, let's go.
- Alexander Hamilton: So?
- Thomas Jefferson, James Madison: The people won't know what we know.
- Alexander Hamilton: Burr. How do I know you won't use this against me/The next time we go toe to toe?
- Aaron Burr: Alexander, rumors only grow. And we both know what we know.
- 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.
- Aaron Burr: Life doesn't discriminate, between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes. And we keep on living anyway. We rise and we fall. We fall and we break. And we make our mistakes. And if there's a reason why I'm still alive when so many have died - then I'm willing to... wait for it.
- Aaron Burr: There's nothing like summer in the city/Someone in a rush next to someone looking pretty/Excuse me, miss, I know it's not funny, but your perfume smells like your daddy's got money/Why you slummin' in the city in your fancy heels? You searchin' for an urchin who can give you ideals?
- Angelica Schuyler: Burr, you disgust me.
- Aaron Burr: Ah, so you've discussed me. I'm a trust fund, baby/You can trust me.
- Angelica Schuyler: I've been reading "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine/So men say that I'm intense or I'm insane/You want a revolution? I wanna revelation/So listen to my declaration.
- Angelica Schuyler, Eliza Hamilton, Peggy Schuyler: We hold these truths to be self-evident/That all men are created equal.
- Angelica Schuyler: And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'mma compel him to include women in the sequel.
- 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!
- George Washington: Hamilton, how come no one can get you on their staff?
- Alexander Hamilton: Sir...
- George Washington: Don't get me wrong. You're a young man of great renown/I know you stole British cannons when we were still downtown/Nathaniel Greene and Henry Knox wanted to hire you.
- Alexander Hamilton: Yeah, to be their secretary. I don't think so.
- George Washington: Now, why are you upset?
- Alexander Hamilton: I'm not.
- George Washington: It's all right, you wanna fight/You've got a hunger/I was just like you when I was younger/Head full of fantasies of dying like a martyr?
- Alexander Hamilton: Yes.
- George Washington: Dying is easy, young man/Living is harder.
- King George: They say the price of my war's not a price that they're willing to pay/Insane/You cheat with the French/Now I'm fighting with France and with Spain/I'm so blue.
- [as he stomps his foot, the stage lights turn from red to blue]
- King George: I thought that we made an arrangement when you went away/You were mine to subdue/Well, even despite our estrangement, I've got a small query for you/What comes next? You've been freed/Do you know how hard it is to lead?/You're on your own/Awesome, wow.
- [audience laughter]
- King George: Do you have a clue what happens now? Oceans rise, empires fall/It's much harder when it's all your call/All alone across the sea/When your people say they hate you/Don't come crawling back to me.
- Aaron Burr: Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution entitled "The Federalist Papers". The plan was to write a total of 25 essays, the work divided evenly between the three men. In the end, they wrote 85 essays in the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote 29. Hamilton wrote the *other 51*!
- George Washington: They're asking me to lead/I'm doing the best I can/To get the people that I need/I'm asking you to be my right-hand man.
- Alexander Hamilton: Treasury or State?
- George Washington: I know it's a lot to ask.
- Alexander Hamilton: Treasury or State?
- George Washington: To leave behind the world you know.
- Alexander Hamilton: Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State Department?
- George Washington: Treasury.
- Alexander Hamilton: [with a toothy chuckle] Let's go.
- Aaron Burr: Meanwhile, Madison is grappling with the fact/That not every issue can be settled by committee/Congress is fighting over where to put the capital/It isn't pretty/Then Jefferson approaches with a dinner and invite/And Madison responds with Virginian insight.
- James Madison: Maybe we can solve one problem with another/And win a victory for the Southerners/In other words...
- Thomas Jefferson: Oh, ho.
- James Madison: A quid pro quo.
- Thomas Jefferson: I suppose.
- James Madison: Wouldn't you like to work a little closer to home?
- Thomas Jefferson: Actually, I would.
- James Madison: Well, I propose the Potomac.
- Thomas Jefferson: And you'll provide him his votes?
- James Madison: Well, we'll see how it goes.
- Thomas Jefferson: Let's go.
- Aaron Burr: No one else was in the room where it happened/The room where it happened/The room where it happened/No one else was in the room where it happened/The room where it happened/The room where it happened/My God!/In God we trust/But we'll really never know what got discussed/Ha!/Click, boom, then it happened/And no one else is in the room where it happened.
- Alexander Hamilton: I wish I could say that was the last time/I said that last time/It became a pastime/A month into this endeavor/I received a letter from a Mr. James Reynolds, even better/It said:
- James Reynolds: Dear sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health/And in a prosperous enough position/To put wealth in the pockets of people like me/Down on they luck/You see, that was my wife/Who you decided to...
- Alexander Hamilton: Fu...
- James Reynolds: Uh-oh/You made the wrong sucker a cuckold/So time to pay the piper/For the pants you unbuckled/And, hey, you can keep seein' my whore wife if the price is right/If not, I'm telling your wife.
- Alexander Hamilton: I hid the letter and I raced to her place/Screamed "how could you?" in her face/She said...
- Maria Reynolds: No, sir.
- Alexander Hamilton: Half-dressed, apologetic/A mess, she looked pathetic, she cried:
- Maria Reynolds: Please don't go, sir.
- Alexander Hamilton: So was your whole story a setup?
- Maria Reynolds: I don't know about any letter!
- Aaron Burr: Two Virginians and an immigrant/Walk into a room/Diametrically opposed, foes/They emerge with a compromise/Having opened doors that were previously closed/The immigrant emerges with unprecedented financial power/A system he can shape however he wants/The Virginians emerge with the nation's capital/And here's the piece de resistance/No one else was in the room where it happened/The room where it happened/The room where it happened/No one else was in the room where it happened/The room where it happened/The room where it happened/No one really knows how the game is played/The art of the trade/How the sausage gets made/We just assume that it happens/But no one else is in the room where it happens./Thomas claims:
- Thomas Jefferson: Alexander was on Washington's doorstep one day/In distress and disarray.
- Aaron Burr: Thomas claims:
- Thomas Jefferson: Alexander said...
- Alexander Hamilton: I have nowhere else to turn.
- Thomas Jefferson: And basically begged me to join the fray.
- Aaron Burr: Thomas claims:
- Thomas Jefferson: I approached Madison and said "I know you hate him, but let's hear what he has to say."
- Aaron Burr: Thomas claims:
- Thomas Jefferson: Well, I arranged the meeting/I arranged the menu/The venue, the seating.
- Aaron Burr: But no one else was in the room where it happened/The room where it happened/The room where it happened/No one else was in the room where it happened/The room where it happened/The room where it happened/No one really knows how the parties get to yes/The pieces that are sacrificed in every game of chess/We just assume that it happens/But no one else was in the room where it happens.
- Aaron Burr: Now, how you gonna get your debt plan through?
- Alexander Hamilton: I guess I'm gonna finally have to listen to you.
- Aaron Burr: Really?
- Alexander Hamilton: Talk less/Smile more/Do whatever it takes/To get my plan on the Congress floor.
- Aaron Burr: Now, Madison and Jefferson are merciless.
- Alexander Hamilton: Well, hate the sin, love the sinner.
- James Madison: Hamilton.
- Alexander Hamilton: I'm sorry, Burr, I gotta go.
- Aaron Burr: Oh, but, uh...
- Alexander Hamilton: Decisions are happening over dinner.
- Aaron Burr: Ah, Mr. Secretary.
- Alexander Hamilton: Mr. Burr, sir.
- Aaron Burr: Hey, did you hear the news about good old General Mercer?
- Alexander Hamilton: No.
- Aaron Burr: You know Clermont Street?
- Alexander Hamilton: Yeah.
- Aaron Burr: They renamed it after him. The Mercer legacy is secure.
- Alexander Hamilton: Sure.
- Aaron Burr: And all he had to do was die
- Alexander Hamilton: Yeah, that's a lot less work.
- Aaron Burr: We ought to give it a try.