Valley Forge Lyrics - Lin-manuel Miranda

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Valley Forge, winter 1778 

Thomas Paine: 

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." 

I am seeing the best minds of my generation 

Waste away in pestilence and starvation 

Is this all a test or have we met our doom? 

Have we set a camp of parameters for our tomb? 

I have never seen His Excellency so despondent 

So I've taken over writing all his correspondence 

I have written Congress and received dishonest responses 

I am beyond comprehension of their nonsense 

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They say, saddle up! Attack the British forces! 

I shoot back, we have resorted to eating our horses 

Local merchants deny us equipment, assistance 

They only take British money, so sing a song of sixpence 

Sixty tents full of dysentery, death 

Dying breaths and dilettantes and deserters in the distance 

Congress, I beg of you, justify your existence 

Are you men or just a bunch of indigenous infants? 

Unite these states, give them stakes in our resistance 

Do you have no influence at all, you fucking skinflints? 

Hamilton, tone it down 

But sir! 

Alex, listen. There's only one way for us to win this 

Provoke outrage, outright 

Don't engage, strike by night 

Remain relentless 'til their troops take flight 

Make it impossible to justify the cost of the fight 

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Outrun (outrun) 

Outlast (outlast) 

Hit 'em quick, get out fast (uh-huh) 

Stay alive 'til this horror show is past 

We're gonna fly a lot of flags half-mast 

(Yeah)