Stay Alive

Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton * Track #14 On Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

2015

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Alexander Hamilton
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#2
Aaron Burr, Sir
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#3
My Shot
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#4
The Story of Tonight
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#5
The Schuyler Sisters
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#6
Farmer Refuted
Thayne Jasperson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#7
You’ll Be Back
Jonathan Groff & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#8
Right Hand Man
Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#9
A Winter’s Ball
Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
#10
Helpless
Phillipa Soo & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#11
Satisfied
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Renée Elise Goldsberry
#12
The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leslie Odom Jr.
#13
Wait For It
Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#14
Stay Alive
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
#15
Ten Duel Commandments
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#16
Meet Me Inside
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#17
That Would Be Enough
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Phillipa Soo
#18
Guns and Ships
Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#19
History Has Its Eyes on You
Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#20
Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
#21
What Comes Next?
Jonathan Groff
#22
Dear Theodosia
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Leslie Odom, Jr.
#23
Non-Stop
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#24
What’d I Miss
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#25
Cabinet Battle #1
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#26
Take a Break
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#27
Say No to This
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#28
The Room Where It Happens
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#29
Schuyler Defeated
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#30
Cabinet Battle #2
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#31
Washington On Your Side
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#32
One Last Time
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#33
I Know Him
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#34
The Adams Administration
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
#35
We Know
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#36
Hurricane
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#37
The Reynolds Pamphlet
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
#38
Burn
Phillipa Soo
#39
Blow Us All Away
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#40
Stay Alive (Reprise)
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo & Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton”
#41
It’s Quiet Uptown
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of “Hamilton” & Renée Elise Goldsberry
#42
The Election of 1800
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#43
Your Obedient Servant
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#44
Best of Wives and Best of Women
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#45
The World Was Wide Enough
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#46
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

Stay Alive by Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

Release Date

Fri Sep 25 2015

Performed by

Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

Produced by

Bill Sherman & Alex Lacamoire & Black Thought & ?uestlove & Lin-Manuel Miranda

Writed by

Lin-Manuel Miranda

About

Historically, this song is out of place in the timeline given by the show. It jumps back almost three years from Hamilton’s wedding (1780) to the Continental Army’s winter at Valley Forge (1777-78), the Battle of Monmouth (1778), and the Lee-Laurens duel (1779).

However, narratively, “Stay Alive” h...

Stay Alive Lyrics

[ELIZA]
Stay alive…

[ELIZA/ANGELICA/ENSEMBLE WOMEN]
Stay alive…

[HAMILTON]
I have never seen the General so despondent
I have taken over writing all his correspondence
Congress writes, “George, 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

[WASHINGTON]
The cavalry’s not coming

[HAMILTON]
But, sir!

[WASHINGTON]
Alex, listen. There’s only one way for us to win this
Provoke outrage, outright

[HAMILTON]
That’s right

[WASHINGTON]
Don’t engage, strike by night
Remain relentless ‘til their troops take flight

[HAMILTON]
Make it impossible to justify the cost of the fight

[WASHINGTON]
Outrun

[HAMILTON]
Outrun

[WASHINGTON]
Outlast

[HAMILTON]
Outlast

[WASHINGTON]
Hit ‘em quick, get out fast

[HAMILTON]
Chick-a-plao!

[WASHINGTON]
Stay alive ‘til this horror show is past
We’re gonna fly a lot of flags half-mast

[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]
Raise a glass!

[MULLIGAN]
I go back to New York and my apprenticeship

[LAFAYETTE]
I ask for French aid, I pray that France has sent a ship

[LAURENS]
I stay at work with Hamilton
We write essays against slavery
And every day’s a test of our camaraderie
And bravery

[HAMILTON]
We cut supply lines, we steal contraband
We pick and choose our battles and places to take a stand
And ev’ry day
“Sir, entrust me with a command,”
And ev’ry day

[WASHINGTON]
No

[HAMILTON]
He dismisses me out of hand

[HAMILTON, LEE, ELIZA/ANGELICA]
Stay alive...
Instead of me, he promotes Charles Lee (Charles Lee)
Makes him second-in-command:

[LEE]
I’m a General. Whee!!!!

[HAMILTON]
Yeah. He’s not the choice I would have gone with

[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]
He shits the bed at the Battle of Monmouth

[WASHINGTON]
Ev’ryone attack!

[LEE]
Retreat!

[WASHINGTON]
Attack!

[LEE]
Retreat!

[WASHINGTON]
What are you doing, Lee? Get back on your feet!

[LEE]
But there’s so many of them!

[WASHINGTON]
I’m sorry, is this not your speed?!
Hamilton!

[HAMILTON]
Ready, sir!

[WASHINGTON]
Have Lafayette take the lead!

[HAMILTON]
Yes, sir!

[LAURENS]
A thousand soldiers die in a hundred degree heat

[LAFAYETTE]
As we snatch a stalemate from the jaws of defeat

[HAMILTON]
Charles Lee was left behind
Without a pot to piss in
He started sayin’ this to anybody who would listen:

[LEE]
Washington cannot be left alone to his devices
Indecisive, from crisis to crisis
The best thing he can do for the revolution
Is turn n’ go back to plantin’ tobacco in Mount Vernon

[COMPANY]
Oo!!

[WASHINGTON]
Don’t do a thing. History will prove him wrong

[HAMILTON]
But, sir!

[WASHINGTON]
We have a war to fight, let’s move along

[LAURENS]
Strong words from Lee, someone oughta hold him to it

[HAMILTON]
I can’t disobey direct orders

[LAURENS]
Then I’ll do it
Alexander, you’re the closest friend I’ve got

[HAMILTON]
Laurens, do not throw away your shot

Stay Alive Q&A

Who wrote Stay Alive's ?

Stay Alive was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Who produced Stay Alive's ?

Stay Alive was produced by Bill Sherman & Alex Lacamoire & Black Thought & ?uestlove & Lin-Manuel Miranda.