Yorktown Chords by Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

[Intro]
Dm C G     C G        Dm                                         C        
■  ■ ■ The ■ ■ battle of Yorktown one thousand seven hundred and eightyone


[Verse]
                 
Monsieur Hamilton
                  
Monsieur Lafayette
   G                       
In command where you belong
        G           
How you say no sweat
Dm                         C              
Finally on the field we've had quite a run
              C               
Immigrants we get the job done
        Dm               
So what happens if we win
  Dm               
I go back to France
        G                   
I bring freedom to my people
   G                   
If I'm given the chance
         Dm                  
We'll be with you when you do
Dm              
Go lead your men
          G                
I see you on the other side
     G                     
'til we meet again let's go


[Chorus]
     D                    F   
I am not throwin' away my shot
     Am                   C   
I am not throwin' away my shot
           Dm                  
Hey yo I'm just like my country
    F                       
I'm young scrappy and hungry
        Am                       
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
     Dm           F           
I am not throwin' away my shot
         Am                     
'til the world turns upside down
         F           G          
'til the world turns upside down


[Verse]
          Dm                                       
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
                 G                                       
This is where it gets me on my feet the enemy ahead of me
Dm                                                       
If this is the end of me at least I have a friend with me
G                                             
Weapon in my hand a command and my men with me
D                                      
Then I remember my Eliza's expecting me
Dsus4                             
Not only that my Eliza's expecting
Dm                                
We gotta go gotta get the job done
G                                         
Gotta start a new nation gotta meet my son


[Chorus]
         Dm          F       
Take the bullets out your gun
    F                   
The bullets out your gun
Am                                   
We move undercover and we move as one
            Dm            F               
Through the night we have one shot to live
        F  
Another day
   Am                 C                   
We cannot let a stray gunshot give us away
        Dm                   F                        
We will fight up close seize the moment and stay in it
     G              Am       C                        
It's either that or meet the business end of a bayonet
    Dm           F                
The code word is Rochambeau dig me
    Gsus4     G7                  
You have your orders now go man go


[Verse]
Dm                                   
And so the American experiment begins
        G                                 
With my friends all scattered to the winds
              Dm                               
Laurens is in South Carolina redefining bravery
G                                       
We'll never be free until we end slavery
Dm                                    
When we finally drive the British away
G                                           
Lafayette is there waiting in Chesapeake Bay
Dm                                       
How did we know that this plan would work
         G          F                  
We had a spy on the inside that's right
F                
Hercules Mulligan
  F                                      
A tailor spyin' on the British government
  Am                      C                              Dm
I take their measurements information and then I smuggle it
                F                     
To my brother's revolutionary covenant
Am                                                   D 
I'm runnin' with the Sons of Liberty and I am lovin' it
                                 F                      
See that's what happens when you up against the ruffians
Am                                         
We in the shit now somebody gotta shovel it
F                                       
Hercules Mulligan I need no introduction
                                 G                 
When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again
     G         
Left Right Hold
        Dm       
Go What What What


[Chorus]
F Am7 Am D7 F Am Am7 Dm
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Am Dm D D7 Dm7 D7 D
■  ■  ■ ■  ■   ■  ■


[Verse]
                                          D                           
After a week of fighting a young man in a red coat stands on a parapet
                                    D                         
We lower our guns as he frantically waves a white handkerchief
Dm D                                                                    
■  And just like that it's over we tend to our wounded we count our dead
          Dm                                                      
Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom
    Dm 
Not yet
   Dm                              
We negotiate the terms of surrender
C            G               
I see George Washington smile
Dm                         Bbmaj7  
We escort their men out of Yorktown
     Bbmaj7                  
They stagger home single file
Dm                                    Bb     
Tens of thousands of people flood the streets
          Bb                              
There are screams and church bells ringing
           Bb                 
And as our fallen foes retreat
       Bb                               
I hear the drinking song they're singing


[Chorus]
Dm G Dm G Dm Bb
■  ■ ■  ■ ■  ■ 
Asus4 A7 Asus4
■     ■  ■    
Am7 Dm D7       F                 
The ■  ■  world turned upside down
                 D7         
The world turned upside down
                 Dm     F     
The world turned upside ■ down
G                           
The world turned upside down
Dm             F   
Down down down down
G           Am      C                 
Freedom for America freedom for France
F C G D
■ ■ ■ ■


[End]