History Has Its Eyes on You [WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]

Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton Who lives, who dies, who tells your story

[WASHINGTON] [WASHINGTON]

I was younger than you are now I know that we can win

When I was given my first command I know that greatness lies in you

I led my men straight into a massacre But remember from here on in

I witnessed their deaths firsthand

I made every mistake [WASHINGTON/HAMILTON AND MEN]

And felt the shame rise in me History has its

And even now I lie awake Eyes on you

[WASHINGTON & LAURENS/MULLIGAN] [ENSEMBLE]

Knowing history has its eyes on me (Whoa…) Whoa…

Whoa… Whoa…

Whoa… Whoa…

Yeah
[FULL COMPANY]

[HAMILTON/WASHINGTON & COMPANY] History has its eyes on you

History has its eyes on me (Whoa…)

Whoa…

Whoa…

Yeah

[WASHINGTON]

Let me tell you what I wish I’d known

When I was young and dreamed of glory:

You have no control:

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Alexander Hamilton Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the
drain
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his
brain
[AARON BURR] And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore pain
and a

Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten [BURR]

Spot in the Caribbean by providence, Well, the word got around, they said, “This kid
impoverished, in squalor is insane, man”
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? Took up a collection just to send him to the
mainland

[JOHN LAURENS] “Get your education, don’t forget from whence

you came, and
The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
The world's gonna know your name. What’s
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder your name, man?”
By being a lot smarter

By being a self-starter [ALEXANDER HAMILTON]

By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a Alexander Hamilton
trading charter
My name is Alexander Hamilton

And there's a million things I haven't done

[THOMAS JEFFERSON]
But just you wait, just you wait...
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

[JAMES MADISON]

Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned

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The Schuyler Sisters And Peggy!

Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

[COMPANY]

[BURR] Work, work!

There’s nothing rich folks love more The Schuyler sisters!

Than going downtown and slummin’ it with the

poor [ANGELICA]
They pull up in their carriages and gawk Angelica!
At the students in the common

Just to watch them talk [PEGGY]

Take Philip Schuyler: the man is loaded Peggy!
Uh-oh, but little does he know that

His daughters, Peggy, Angelica, Eliza [ELIZA]

Sneak into the city just to watch all the guys Eliza!
at—

[COMPANY]
[COMPANY]
Work!
Work, work!

[PEGGY]
[ANGELICA]
Daddy said to be home by sundown
Angelica!

[ANGELICA]
[COMPANY]
Daddy doesn’t need to know
Work, work!

[PEGGY]
[ELIZA]
Daddy said not to go downtown
Eliza!

[ELIZA]
[PEGGY]
Like I said, you’re free to go

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[ANGELICA] [ELIZA]

But—look around, look around, the Angelica, remind me what we’re looking for…

Revolution’s happening in New York

[ALL MEN]

[ELIZA/PEGGY] She’s lookin’ for me!

New York

[ANGELICA & COMPANY]

[COMPANY] Eliza, I’m lookin’ for a mind at work (work,

work)
Angelica
I’m lookin’ for a mind at work! (work, work)

I’m lookin’ for a mind at work! (work, work)

[SCHUYLER SISTERS AND COMPANY]
Whooaaaaa!
Work!

[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY with COMPANY]

[PEGGY]
Whooaaaaa!
It’s bad enough daddy wants to go to war
Work!

[ELIZA]
[BURR]
People shouting in the square
Wooh! There’s nothin’ like summer in the city

Someone in a rush next to someone lookin’

[PEGGY]
pretty
It’s bad enough there’ll be violence on our
Excuse me, miss, I know it’s not funny
shore
But your perfume smells like your daddy’s got
money
[ANGELICA]
Why you slummin’ in the city in your fancy
New ideas in the air heels

You searchin for an urchin who can give you

ideals?
[ANGELICA AND MALE ENSEMBLE]

Look around, look around—

[ANGELICA]

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Burr, you disgust me

[ELIZA]

[BURR] Look around, look around at how

Ah, so you’ve discussed me Lucky we are to be alive right now!

I’m a trust fund, baby, you can trust me!

[ELIZA/PEGGY]

[ANGELICA] Look around, look around at how

I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Lucky we are to be alive right now!
Paine

So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane

[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY]
You want a revolution? I want a revelation
History is happening in Manhattan and we just
So listen to my declaration: happen to be

In the greatest city in the world!

[ELIZA/ANGELICA/PEGGY]

“We hold these truths to be self-evident [SCHUYLER SISTERS AND COMPANY]

That all men are created equal” In the greatest city in the world!

[ANGELICA] [ANGELICA, ELIZA/PEGGY & MEN]

And when I meet Thomas Jefferson Cuz I’ve been reading Common Sense by
Thomas Paine

Look around, look around

[COMPANY]
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Unh!
So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane

The revolution's happening in—

[ANGELICA]
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the
sequel!

[ANGELICA, ELIZA/PEGGY, WOMEN]

[WOMEN] You want a revolution? I want a revelation

Work! New York!

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Look around, look around, the revolution's [COMPANY & ANGELICA]
happening
Work, work! Angelica
In New York!

So listen to my declaration:
[COMPANY, ELIZA, & PEGGY]

Work, work! Eliza

[ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY, FEMALE ENSEMBLE,
And Peggy!
& WOMEN]

We hold these truths to be self evident that all

men are created equal [COMPANY & ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY]
Look around, look around Work, work!
Hey, hey, hey, hey The Schuyler sisters
Whoo! Work, work
At how lucky we are to be alive right now We're looking for a mind at work
Hey, hey, hey, hey Work, work (hey)

Work, work (hey)

[FULL COMPANY] Work, work
Look around, look around at how lucky we are
to be alive right now!
[COMPANY, ANGELICA, & ELIZA/PEGGY]
History is happening in Manhattan and we just
happen to be Work, work

Whoa!

[ALL WOMEN] Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

In the greatest city in the world Work, work

In the greatest city in the world

[ALL MEN] In the greatest city in the world

In the greatest city—

[COMPANY]

[COMPANY] In the greatest city in the world

In the greatest city in the world!

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Non-Stop This is the first murder trial of our brand-new
nation
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
The liberty behind

Deliberation—
[BURR]

After the war I went back to New York

[ENSEMBLE]

Non-stop!
[HAMILTON]

A-After the war I went back to New York

[HAMILTON]

I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt

[BURR]
With my assistant counsel—
I finished up my studies and I practiced law

[BURR]
[HAMILTON]
Co-counsel
I practiced law, Burr worked next door
Hamilton, sit down

Our client Levi Weeks is innocent. Call your first

[BURR] witness
Even though we started at the very same time That’s all you had to say!
Alexander Hamilton began to climb

How to account for his rise to the top? [HAMILTON]

Maaaaan, the man is Okay!

One more thing—

[BURR & ENSEMBLE]

Non-stop! [BURR]

Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the

[HAMILTON] room?

Gentlemen of the jury, I’m curious, bear with Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the
me room?

Are you aware that we’re making hist’ry? Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the
room?

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Soon that attitude may be your doom! I practiced the law, I practic’ly perfected it

I’ve seen injustice in the world and I’ve

corrected it
[ENSEMBLE]
Now for a strong central democracy
Awwww!
If not, then I’ll be Socrates

Throwing verbal rocks at these mediocrities

[BURR with ENSEMBLE]

Why do you write like you’re running out of

time? [ENSEMBLE]

Write day and night like you’re running out of Awww!

time?

Ev’ry day you fight, like you’re running out of

[BURR]
time
Hamilton, at the Constitutional Convention:
Keep on fighting. In the meantime—

[HAMILTON]
[ENSEMBLE]
I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention!
Non-stop!

[BURR]
[HAMILTON]
There as a New York junior delegate:
Corruption’s such an old song that we can sing
along in harmony

And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany [HAMILTON & COMPANY]

This colony’s economy’s increasingly stalling Now what I’m going to say may sound
and indelicate… (Awwww)

[HAMILTON & BURR & ENSEMBLE] [BURR & COMPANY]

Honestly, that’s why public service Goes and proposes his own form of
government! (What?)
Seems to be calling me
His own plan for a new form of government!
He's just non-stop!
(What?)

[HAMILTON]
[BURR]

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Talks for six hours! The convention is listless! Alexander?

[ENSEMBLE MAN] [HAMILTON]

Bright young man… Aaron Burr, sir

[ANOTHER ENSEMBLE MAN] [BURR]

Yo, who the f is this? It’s the middle of the night

[BURR with COMPANY] [HAMILTON]

Why do you always say what you believe? Can we confer, sir?

Why do you always say what you believe?

Ev’ry proclamation guarantees free ammunition [BURR]

for your enemies!
Is this a legal matter?

[COMPANY]
[HAMILTON]
Awww!
Yes, and it’s important to me

[BURR & MEN with ALL WOMEN]

[BURR]
Why do you write like it’s
What do you need?
Going out of style?

Write day and night like it’s

[HAMILTON]
Going out of style?
Burr, you’re a better lawyer than me

[BURR & COMPANY]

[BURR]
Ev’ry day you fight like it’s
Okay
Going out of style

Do what you do
[HAMILTON]

I know I talk too much, I’m abrasive

[BURR]

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You’re incredible in court. You’re succinct,
persuasive
[BURR]
My client needs a strong defense. You’re the
And if it fails?
solution

[HAMILTON]
[BURR]
Burr, that’s why we need it
Who’s your client?

[BURR]
[HAMILTON]
The constitution’s a mess
The new U.S. Constitution?

[HAMILTON]
[BURR]
So it needs amendments
No

[BURR]
[HAMILTON]
It’s full of contradictions
Hear me out

[HAMILTON]
[BURR]
So is independence
No way!
We have to start somewhere

[HAMILTON]
[BURR]
A series of essays, anonymously published
No. No way
Defending the document to the public

[HAMILTON]
[BURR]
You’re making a mistake
No one will read it

[BURR]
[HAMILTON]
Good night
I disagree

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[HAMILTON] I’ll keep all my plans close to my chest

Hey Wait for it, wait for it, wait...

What are you waiting for? I’ll wait here and see which way the wind will
blow
What do you stall for?
I’m taking my time watching the afterbirth of a
nation
[BURR]
Watching the tension grow
What?

[ANGELICA]
[HAMILTON]
I am sailing off to London
We won the war
I’m accompanied by someone who always pays
What was it all for?
I have found a wealthy husband
Do you support this constitution?
Who will keep me in comfort for all my days

He is not a lot of fun, but there’s no one

[BURR]
Who can match you for turn of phrase
Of course
My Alexander

[HAMILTON]
[HAMILTON]
Then defend it
Angelica

[BURR]
[ANGELICA]
And what if you’re backing the wrong horse?
Don’t forget to write

[HAMILTON]
[ELIZA]
Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed
Look at where you are
For the notion of a nation we now get to build
Look at where you started
For once in your life, take a stand with pride
The fact that you’re alive is a miracle
I don’t understand how you stand to the side
Just stay alive, that would be enough

And if your wife could share a fraction of your

[BURR with ENSEMBLE, ENSEMBLE] time

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If I could grant you peace of mind Ev’ry second you’re alive? Ev’ry second you’re
alive?
Would that be enough?

[WASHINGTON]
[BURR]
They are asking me to lead
Alexander joins forces with James Madison and
John Jay to write a series of essays defending I am doing the best I can
the new United States Constitution, entitled
To get the people that I need
The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a
total of twenty-five essays, the work divided I’m asking you to be my right hand man
evenly among the three men. In the end, they
wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six
months. John Jay got sick after writing five. [HAMILTON]
James Madison wrote twenty-nine. Hamilton
wrote the other fifty-one! Treasury or State?

[BURR with ALL WOMEN] [WASHINGTON]

How do you write like you’re running out of I know it’s a lot to ask
time?

Write day and night like you’re running out of [HAMILTON]

time?
Treasury or State?

[BURR AND MEN with ALL WOMEN, ALL

WOMEN] [WASHINGTON]

Ev’ry day you fight like you’re running out of To leave behind the world you know…
time

Like you’re running out of time

[HAMILTON]
Are you running out of time?
Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State
Awwww! department?

[FULL COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON)] [WASHINGTON]

How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive? Treasury

How do you write like you need it to survive?

How do you write ev’ry second you’re alive? [HAMILTON]

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Let’s go

[BURR, WASHINGTON, ENSEMBLE, ELIZA]

[ELIZA] History has its eyes

Alexander… Look around, look around!

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the

room?
[HAMILTON]
On you
I have to leave
Isn't this enough?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the

[ELIZA]
room? (Non-stop)
Alexander—
What would be enough?

[HAMILTON]
[BURR, ANGELICA, ENSEMBLE]
Look around, look around at how lucky we are
He will never be satisfied
to be alive right now
Why do you assume you're the smartest in the
room? (Non-stop)
[ELIZA]
Satisfied, satisfied
Helpless…

[BURR, WASHINGTON, MULLIGAN, LAUREL &

[HAMILTON] LAFAYETTE, ENSEMBLE]

They are asking me to lead History has its eyes

Soon that attitude's gonna be your doom! (Non-

stop)
[ELIZA]
On you
Look around, isn’t this enough?
Why do you fight like you're running out of
time? (Non-stop)
[ANGELICA & ELIZA]

He will never be satisfied [ANGELICA, ELIZA & BURR]

What would be enough? Why do you fight like
He will never be satisfied (to be satisfied)

Satisfied, satisfied [COMPANY]

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History has its eyes on you

[HAMILTON & MEN]

I am not throwin’ away my shot! (Just you

wait!)

[HAMILTON & FULL COMPANY]

I am not throwin’ away my shot! (Just you

wait!)

[HAMILTON with FULL COMPANY]

I am Alexander Hamilton!

[FULL COMPANY]

Hamilton, just you wait!

[HAMILTON]

I am not throwin' away my shot!

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The Story of Tonight
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
[HAMILTON]
I may not live to see our glory!
[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
I may not live to see our glory!
[HAMILTON]
But I will gladly join the fight!
[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
But I will gladly join the fight!
[HAMILTON]
And when our children tell our story…
[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
And when our children tell our story…
[HAMILTON]
They’ll tell the story of tonight
[MULLIGAN]
Let’s have another round tonight
[LAFAYETTE]
Let’s have another round tonight
[HAMILTON]
Let’s have another round tonight
[LAURENS]
Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you
Raise a glass to the four of us
[LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
Tomorrow there’ll be more of us
[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS]
Telling the story of tonight
[HAMILTON]
They’ll tell the story of tonight
[LAURENS/MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE]
Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
[HAMILTON]
No matter what they tell you
[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE]
Let’s have another round tonight
[LAURENS]
Raise a glass to the four of us
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE]
Tomorrow there’ll be more of us
[HAMILTON/LAURENS]
Telling the story of tonight
[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE]
Let’s have another round tonight
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/
ENSEMBLE &
MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/ENSEMBLE]
They’ll tell the story of tonight
Raise a glass to freedom
They’ll tell the story of tonight
Raise a glass to freedom
They’ll tell the story of tonight
They'll tell the story of—
[FULL ENSEMBLE]
Tonight
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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells
Your Story [MADISON]

Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton He took our country from bankruptcy to

prosperity

I hate to admit it, but he doesn’t get enough

[WASHINGTON]
credit
Let me tell you what I wish I’d known
For all the credit he gave us
When I was young and dreamed of glory

You have no control:

[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]

Who lives
[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY]
Who dies
Who lives
Who tells your story?
Who dies

Who tells your story?

[ANGELICA]

Every other founding father's story gets told

[BURR]
Every other founding father gets to grow old
President Jefferson:

[BURR]
[JEFFERSON]
But when you’re gone, who remembers your
I’ll give him this: his financial system is a name?

Work of genius. I couldn’t undo it if I tried Who keeps your flame?

And I tried
[BURR AND MEN]

[WASHINGTON AND COMPANY] Who tells your story?

Who lives Who tells your story?

Who dies

Who tells your story? [ANGELICA AND WOMEN]

Who tells your story?

[BURR] Your story?

President Madison:

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[WOMEN] [ELIZA AND COMPANY]

Eliza Time

[ELIZA] [ELIZA]

I put myself back in the narrative I rely on—

[WOMEN] [ELIZA AND ANGELICA]

Eliza Angelica

[ELIZA] [ELIZA]

I stop wasting time on tears While she’s alive—

I live another fifty years

It’s not enough [ELIZA AND ANGELICA]

We tell your story

[COMPANY]

Eliza [ELIZA]

She is buried in Trinity Church

[ELIZA]

I interview every soldier who fought by your [ELIZA AND ANGELICA]

side
Near you

[MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS]
[ELIZA]
She tells our story
When I needed her most, she was right on—

[ELIZA]
[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
I try to make sense of your thousands of pages
Time
of writings

You really do write like you’re running out of—

[ELIZA]

And I’m still not through

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I ask myself, “What would you do if you had And when my time is up, have I done enough?
more—”

[ELIZA]
[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
Will they tell our story?
Time

[COMPANY]
[ELIZA]
Will they tell your story?
The Lord, in his kindness

He gives me what you always wanted

[ELIZA]
He gives me more—
Oh. Can I show you what I’m proudest of?

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]

[COMPANY]
Time
The orphanage

[ELIZA]
[ELIZA]
I raise funds in D.C. for the Washington
I established the first private orphanage in New
Monument
York City

[WASHINGTON]
[COMPANY]
She tells my story
The orphanage

[ELIZA]
[ELIZA]
I speak out against slavery
I help to raise hundreds of children
You could have done so much more if you only
I get to see them growing up
had—

[COMPANY]
[ELIZA AND COMPANY]
The orphanage
Time

[ELIZA]
[ELIZA]

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In their eyes I see you, Alexander Time…

I see you every— Time...

[ELIZA AND COMPANY] [FULL COMPANY]

Time Who tells your story?

[ELIZA]

And when my time is up

Have I done enough?

Will they tell my story?

[COMPANY]

Will they tell your story?

[ELIZA]

Oh, I can’t wait to see you again

It’s only a matter of—

[ELIZA AND COMPANY]

Time

[COMPANY]

Will they tell your story?

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

Will they tell your story?

Who lives, who dies—

[COMPANY]

Time…

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