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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
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This song captures the events that occurred during the Battle of Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. These events are covered in Chernow’s biography on pages
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) Samples
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See all of “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)” by Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Guns and Ships
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“Guns and Ships” holds the honor of being the fastest song in the fastest-paced musical theater production of all time (the whole show fits 20,000 words into 2.5 hours). According
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Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – History Has Its Eyes on You
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In this song, Washington tells Hamilton what the show he’s starring in is all about. During this scene, Washington hands Hamilton a sword, a symbol of his promotion to his command
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Phillipa Soo & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Helpless
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Continuing on in the same vein as “The Schuyler Sisters,” Eliza here transforms into a full-fledged Beyoncé—frequently mimicking the superstar’s characteristic ways of singing
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Genius Chinese Translations (中文翻譯) – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Guns and Ships (中文翻译/Chinese Translation)
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[BURR] / How does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower / 一群烏合之眾的義勇軍 髒到臭氣熏天 / Somehow defeat a global superpower? / 又怎樣擊敗一名世界強權 / How do we emerge victorious from the
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Guns and Ships (Traducción al Español)
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[BURR] / ¿Cómo consigue un ejército desharrapado de voluntarios que necesitan ducharse / Derrotar de algún modo a una superpotencia mundial? / ¿Cómo salimos victoriosos del
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Genius Chinese Translations (中文翻譯) – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) (中文翻译/Chinese Translation)
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[COMPANY] / The battle of Yorktown. 1781 / 約克鎮圍城戰 一七八一年 / [LAFAYETTE] / Monsieur Hamilton / Monsieur 漢默頓 / [HAMILTON] / Monsieur Lafayette / Monsieur 拉法葉 / [LAFAYETTE] / In command
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K'naan (Ft. Residente, Riz Ahmed & Snow Tha Product) – Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)
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“Immigrants” is a track by K'naan, taken from the Lin-Manuel Miranda curated Hamilton Mixtape. It features verses from guest rappers Residente, Riz MC and Snow Tha Product. Notably
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) (Traducción al Español)
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[COMPAÑÍA] / La batalla de Yorktown. 1781 / [LAFAYETTE] / Monsieur Hamilton / [HAMILTON] / ¡Monsieur Lafayette! / [LAFAYETTE] / Al mando, como te corresponde / [HAMILTON] / ¿Cómo
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Wait For It (Instrumental)
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[Instrumental]
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Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Right Hand Man
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This song dramatizes many elements of George Washington’s troubled New York Campaign, which leads to his fateful meeting with one Alexander Hamilton.
The beat, particularly when
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – The Story of Tonight (Reprise) (Instrumental)
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[Instrumental]
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Stay Alive
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Historically, this song is out of place in the timeline given by the show. It jumps back almost three years from Hamilton’s wedding (1780) to the Continental Army’s winter at
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – What'd I Miss? (Instrumental)
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" & Renée Elise Goldsberry – It's Quiet Uptown
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The Hamiltons grieve Philip’s death and slowly begin to put their lives back together in this moving treatise on grief, forgiveness, and by extension, humanity’s terrible and
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Jonathan Groff – What Comes Next?
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King George returns to comment on the action again, implacably reprising his musical theme from “You’ll Be Back,” note for note and sometimes even lyric for lyric. It’s almost like
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Thayne Jasperson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Farmer Refuted
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Alexander Hamilton confronts a loyalist publicly advocating against the American Revolution.
The scene is inspired by a series of anonymous letters to newspapers in New England
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
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The cast and company return to usher in Eliza, who takes over for Burr and narrates the Afterword of our story. The play ends by asking the audience directly, “Who tells your story
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Best of Wives and Best of Women (Instrumental)
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Genius Traduzioni Italiane – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) (Traduzione italiana)
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[COMPAGNIA] / La battaglia di Yorktown. 1781 / [LAFAYETTE] / Monsieur Hamilton / [HAMILTON] / Monsieur Lafayette / [LAFAYETTE] / Al comando, dove devi stare / [HAMILTON] / Come si
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Alexander Hamilton (Instrumental)
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[Insrumental]
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – The Story of Tonight
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A leitmotif that repeats throughout the first act to unite Hamilton and his Revolutionary friends.
Thematically, this song is reminiscent of those other Revolutionary bros, Les
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"Weird Al" Yankovic – The Hamilton Polka
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Continuing Weird Al’s series of polka medleys, “The Hamilton Polka” is a mashup of the 2015 musical Hamilton.
It’s part of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamildrops”, where new Hamilton-
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Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sydney James Harcourt & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Say No to This
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Hamilton begins his disastrous affair with mega-vamp Maria Reynolds. For the first major sex scandal in the United States' political history, Lin-Manuel Miranda gives us a 90s slow
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Genius Chinese Translations (中文翻譯) – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Farmer Refuted (中文翻译/Chinese Translation)
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[SEABURY] / Hear ye, hear ye! My name is Samuel Seabury / 注意, 注意! 余名為山謬西伯里 / And I present “Free Thoughts on the / 余親著 「大陸會議之程序 / Proceedings of the Continental Congress
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (Traducción al Español)
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[WASHINGTON] / Déjame decirte lo que me hubiera gustado saber / Cuando era joven y soñaba con la gloria / No tienes control: / [WASHINGTON Y COMPAÑÍA] / ¿Quién vive / Quién muere
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - History Has Its Eyes On you (Traducción al Español)
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[WASHINGTON] / Era más joven que tú / Cuando me dieron mi primer puesto de mando / Llevé a mis hombres directos a una masacre / Vi sus muertes de primera mano / Cometí cada error
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Non-Stop (Instrumental)
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Dear Theodosia (Traducción al Español)
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[BURR] / Querida Theodosia, ¿qué decirte? / Tienes mis ojos, tienes el nombre de tu madre / Cuando viniste al mundo, lloraste / Y se me partió el corazón / Te dedico todos mis días
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – The Reynolds Pamphlet
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“The Reynolds Pamphlet” was a 95-page document written by Alexander Hamilton in response to allegations of corruption. He refuted these allegations, but in doing so, he publicly
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Wait for it (Traducción al Español)
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[BURR] / Theodosia me escribe una carta cada día / Mantengo su cama caliente mientras su marido está fuera / Él está en el lado británico en Georgia / Está intentando mantener a
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Aaron Burr, Sir (Instrumental)
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Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Washington On Your Side
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This song immediately follows Jefferson’s diss at the end of “Cabinet Battle #2.” It starts with Burr methodically talking almost as if he’s chanting, egging on Jefferson regarding
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Your Obedient Servant
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The title and refrain of this song are a reference to the real-life correspondence between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton that led to their famous duel. Each letter was signed:
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Renée Elise Goldsberry – Satisfied
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“Satisfied” — whose lines and title draw inspiration from an actual letter Angelica wrote to Hamilton — reinforces one of the most important themes of Hamilton, that our
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Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Wait For It
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This soliloquy is sung by Aaron Burr midway through the first act of the show.
The beat on the first half of the song closely resembles dancehall reggae; you can compare the
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast Of Hamilton - The Adams Administration (Traducción al Español)
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[BURR] / ¿Cómo es que Hamilton, el irascible / Versátil, creador de la guardia costera / Fundador del New York Post / Abusa fervientemente de su puesto de gabinete / Y logra
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Stay Alive (Reprise) (Traducción al Español)
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[CORO FEMENINO, HAMILTON, & DOCTOR] / Mantente vivo… / Mantente vivo… (¿Dónde está mi hijo?) / Sr. Hamilton, entre. Lo trajeron hace media hora. Perdió mucha sangre en el camino
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Genius Srpski Prevodi – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Aaron Burr, Sir (Srpski Prevod)
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[ANSAMBL] / 1776, Njujork / [HAMILTON] / Izvinite. Jeste li Vi Aron Ber, gospodine? / [BER] / Zavisi. Ko pita? / [HAMILTON] / Pa da, naravno / Aleksandar Hamilton, na usluzi
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Ten Duel Commandments (Traducción al Español)
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[HOMBRES] / Un, dos, tres, cuatro / [COMPAÑÍA] / Cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve / [BURR, HAMILTON, LAURENS, LEE] / Son los diez mandamientos del duelo / [COMPAÑÍA] / Son los diez
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Your Obedient Servant (Traducción al Español)
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[BURR] / ¿Cómo es que Hamilton / Un arrogante / Inmigrante, huérfano / Cabrón, hijo de puta / De algún modo apoya a / Thomas Jefferson, su enemigo / Un hombre al que ha despreciado
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Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" & Renée Elise Goldsberry – The Schuyler Sisters
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Referred to as the Destiny’s Child number of the musical, “The Schuyler Sisters” explosively introduces two of Hamilton’s major female players, Angelica and Eliza Schuyler… as well
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – A Winter's Ball
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“A Winter’s Ball” serves as a brief transition between Hamilton participating in the New York Campaign in “Right Hand Man,” and meeting his future wife Eliza Schuyler in “Helpless
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Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – What'd I Miss
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Daveed Diggs’s Lafayette leaves for France in Act I, and he returns to the stage in Act II as Thomas Jefferson, who was absent for large swaths of the Revolution and the early
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