Right Hand Man

British admiral howe's got troops on the water

  • British admiral howe's got troops on the water
  • Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbour
  • Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbour
  • Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbour
  • When they surround our troops
  • They surround our troops they surround our troops
  • As a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war
  • I knew that I was poor I knew it was the only way to
  • Rise up if they tell my story
  • I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or
  • Rise up I will fight for this land but there's only one man
  • Who can give us a command so we can
  • Rise up understand it's the only way to rise up rise up
  • Here he comes
  • Here comes the general
  • Ladies and gentlemen
  • Here comes the general
  • The moment you've been waiting for
  • Here comes the general
  • The pride of mount Vernon
  • Here comes the general
  • George Washington
  • We are out-gunned what
  • Out-manned what
  • Out-numbered out-planned buck buck buck buck
  • Buck
  • We gotta make an all-out stand
  • Hey yo I'm gonna need a right-hand man buck buck buck buck
  • Buck
  • Check it
  • Can I be real a second for just a millisecond
  • Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second
  • Now I'm the model of a modern major general
  • The venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all
  • Lining up to put me up on a pedestal writing letters to relatives
  • Embellishing my elegance and eloquence
  • But the elephant is in the room the truth is in your face
  • When you hear the British cannons go boom
  • Any hope of success is fleeting
  • How can I keep leading when the people I'm leading keep retreating
  • We put a stop to the bleeding as the British take Brooklyn
  • Knight takes rook but look
  • We are out-gunned what
  • Out-manned what
  • Out-numbered out-planned buck buck buck buck
  • Buck
  • We gotta make an all-out stand
  • Ayo I'm gonna need a right-hand man buck buck buck buck
  • Buck
  • Incoming
  • They're battering down the battery check the damages brrah
  • We gotta stop em and rob em of their advantages brrah
  • Let's take a stand with the stamina god has granted us
  • Hamilton won't abandon ship yo let's steal their cannons
  • Shh-boom
  • Boom goes the cannon watch the blood and the shit spray and
  • Boom goes the cannon we're abandoning kips bay and
  • Boom there's another ship and
  • Boom we just lost the southern tip and
  • Boom we've gotta run to Harlem quick we can't afford another slip
  • Guns and horses giddy up I decide to divvy up
  • My forces they're skittish as the British cut the city up
  • This close to giving up facing mad scrutiny
  • I scream in the face of this mass mutiny
  • Are these the men with which I am to defend America
  • We ride at midnight Manhattan in the distance
  • I cannot be everywhere at once people
  • I'm in dire need of assistance
  • Your excellency sir
  • Who are you
  • Aaron burr sir
  • Permission to state my case
  • As you were
  • Sir I was a captain under general Montgomery
  • Until he caught a bullet in the neck in Quebec and well in summary
  • I think that I could be of some assistance
  • I admire how you keep firing on the British from a distance
  • Huh
  • I have some questions a couple of suggestions
  • On how to fight Instead of fleeing west
  • Yes
  • Well
  • Your excellency you wanted to see me
  • Hamilton come in have you met burr
  • Yes sir
  • We keep meeting
  • As I was saying sir
  • I look forward to seeing your strategy play out
  • Burr
  • Sir
  • Close the door on your way out
  • Have I done something wrong sir
  • On the contrary
  • I called you here because our odds are beyond scary
  • Your reputation precedes you but I have to laugh
  • Sir
  • Hamilton how come no one can get you on their staff
  • Sir
  • Don't get me wrong you're a young man of great renown
  • I know you stole British cannons when we were still downtown
  • Nathanael Greene and Henry Knox wanted to hire you
  • To be their secretary I don't think so
  • Now why are you upset
  • I'm not
  • It's alright you want to fight you've got a hunger
  • I was just like you when I was younger
  • Head full of fantasies of dying like a martyr
  • Yes
  • Dying is easy young man living is harder
  • Why are you telling me this
  • I'm being honest
  • I'm working with a third of what our congress has promised
  • We are a powder keg about to explode
  • I need someone like you to lighten the load
  • So
  • I am not throwing away my shot
  • I am not throwing away my shot
  • Hey yo I'm just like my country
  • I'm young scrappy and hungry
  • I am not throwing away my shot
  • Son we are outgunned out manned
  • You need all the help you can get I have some friends
  • Lauren's mulligan marquis DE Lafayette okay what else
  • Outnumbered out planned
  • We'll need some spies on the inside
  • Some king's men who might let some things slide
  • Boom whoa whoa whoa
  • I'll write to congress and tell them we need supplies
  • You rally the guys master the element of surprise
  • Chicka-boom whoa whoa whoa
  • I'll rise above my station organize your information
  • Til we rise to the occasion of our new nation sir
  • Here comes the general
  • Rise up what
  • Here comes the general
  • Rise up what
  • Here comes the general
  • Rise up what
  • Here comes the general
  • What
  • And his right hand man
  • Boom
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