Lin-Manuel Miranda
Blow Us All Away
[PHILIP]
Meet the latest graduate of King's College!
I prob’ly shouldn't brag, but, dag, I amaze and astonish!
The kids say that I got the bame virtuosity and brains as my pops!
The ladies say that that is not where the resemblance stops!
I'm only nineteen but my mind is older
Gotta be my own man, like my daddy, but bolder
I shoulder his legacy with pride
I used to hear them say
That some day
I would

[ENSEMBLE (PHILIP)]
Blow us all away (Bla-hoo us all away!)

[PHILIP]
Ladies, I’m lookin' for a Mr. George Eacker
Made a speech last night, our Fourth of July speaker
He disparaged my father's legacy in, I don't–crowd
I don't have that, I'm makin' my father proud

[GORL]
I saw him just up Broadway a couple of blocks
He was goin' to see a play

[PHILIP]
I’ll go visit his box
[GORL]
God, you’re a fox!

[PHILIP]
Y'all look pretty good in your frocks
How ’bout when I get back, we all strip down to our socks?

[SOUNDTRACK GORLS]
Ok!

[ENSEMBLE]
Blow us all away!

[PHILIP]
George? George!

[GEORGE]
Shh! I'm tryin' to watch the show!

[PHILIP]
Well, you shoulda watched your mouth before you
Talked about my daddy-o!

[GEORGE]
I didn't say anything that wasn’t true
Your father was a scoundrel, and so, it seems, are you
[PHILIP]
So, it's like that?

[GEORGE]
Yeah, it's like that

[PHILIP]
See you on the dueling ground!
Unless you wanna step outside and go now

[PHILIP, sped up]
Pops, you should've heard all the stuff he said about you!
I doubt you would've let it slide and I was not about to–

[HAMILTON]
Slow down!

[PHILIP]
Whoa!
Pops, you should've heard all the stuff he said about you!
I doubt you would've let it slide and I was not about to–

[HAMILTON]
Slow down!

[PHILIP]
Whoa!
(Juliet and Izzy laugh.)

[PHILIP]
This is my very first duel
I didn't exactly cover this topic in boarding school!

[HAMILTON]
Did your friend attempt to negotiate a peace?

[PHILIP]
No. We had to make the peace talk cease!

[HAMILTON]
Where is this happening?

[PHILIP]
Oh, across the river, in New Jersey
Everything is legal in New–

[HAMILTON]
So this is what you're gonna do:
Stand there like a man 'til Eacker is in front of you
When the time comes, fire your gun in the air
This will put an end to the whole affair

[PHILIP]
But what if he decides to shoot and I'm a goner?

[HAMILTON]
No. He'll follow suit if he's truly a man of honor
Take someone's life, that is something you can't shake
Philip, your mother can't take another heartbreak
Promise me. You don't want–

[HAMILTON, slow-motion]
This gun, this doll, this buns–

[RECORDING PHILIP]
Okay, I promise

[HAMILTON]
Come back home with me, you're done
Take my guns. Be smart

(PHILIP kisses the guns.)

[RECORDING PHILIP]
My name is Philip

[PHILIP]
I am a poet
A little bit nervous, but I can't show it
I'm a Hamilton with pride
You talk about my daddy, I cannot let it slide!
Oh, Mr. Yeacker!

[GEORGE]
I'd rather skip the pleasantries
Let's go

[RECORDING GEORGE]
Grab your pistol

[RECORDING PHILIP]
Confer with your men
The–

[PHILIP]
Duel will commence after we count to ten

[PHILIP AND GEORGE]
Count to ten!
Look him in the eye, aim no higher
Summon all the courage you require
Then slowly and clearly–

[GEORGE]
Aim your gun towards the sky!

[PHILIP AND GEORGE]
One two three four five–

[GEORGE]
SEVEN!

(PHILIP cries out in slow motion.)