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Hamilton • 2020

�� A thousand soldiers die
In 100-degree heat ♪ ♪ As we snatch a stalemate
From the jaws of defeat ♪ ♪ Charles Lee was left behind
Without a pot to piss in ♪ ♪ He started saying this
To anybody who would listen ♪ [Lee] ♪ Washington cannot be left alone
To his devices ♪ ♪ Indecisive, from crisis to crisis ♪ ♪ The best thing he could do
For the revolution ♪ ♪ Is turn and go back to planting tobacco
In Mount Vernon ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Don't do a thing
History will prove him wrong ♪ -♪ But, sir-- ♪
-♪ We have a war to fight ♪ ♪ Let's move along ♪ ♪ Strong words from Lee
Someone ought to hold him to it ♪ ♪ I can't disobey direct orders ♪ Then I'll do it

Full Transcript

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♪ A thousand soldiers die In 100-degree heat ♪

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♪ As we snatch a stalemate From the jaws of defeat ♪

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♪ Charles Lee was left behind Without a pot to piss in ♪

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♪ He started saying this To anybody who would listen ♪

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[Lee] ♪ Washington cannot be left alone To his devices ♪

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♪ Indecisive, from crisis to crisis ♪

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♪ The best thing he could do For the revolution ♪

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♪ Is turn and go back to planting tobacco In Mount Vernon ♪

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♪ Ooh ♪

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♪ Don't do a thing History will prove him wrong ♪

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-♪ But, sir-- ♪ -♪ We have a war to fight ♪

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♪ Let's move along ♪

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♪ Strong words from Lee Someone ought to hold him to it ♪

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♪ I can't disobey direct orders ♪

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Then I'll do it.

Duration

39 seconds

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Timestamp in Movie

00:47:53

Uploaded

Jun 01, 2025

Genres

biography, drama, history

Production

RadicalMedia,5000 Broadway Productions,Nevis Productions,Old 320 Sycamore

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Movie Summary

The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.