Valley Forge (Demo) (Explicit)

Valley Forge (Demo) - Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

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 f**king 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

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