Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) Chords

_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ The Battle of [Dm] Yorktown, _ _ _ [G] _ _
1781
[Dm] Monsieur Hamilton!
Monsieur [G] Lafayette!
In command where you belong!
Are you saying no [Dm] sweat?
We're finally on the field, we've had quite a [G] run!
Immigrants!
[N] We get the job done!
[Dm] So what happens if we win?
I go [C] back to [G] France, I bring freedom to my people if I'm given the [Dm] chance!
We'll be with you when you do!
Go, [C] lead your [G] men!
See you on the other side!
Here we meet [D] again!
I am not throwing _ [G] _ _
[C] away my [D] shot!
Hey yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, [G] scrappy, and hurry!
And I'm not throwing away my [D] shot!
_ _ _ [G] Till the world turns [C] upside down!
[F] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ I [Dm] am mad in debt so much it feels more like a [C] memory!
[G] This is where it gets me, on my feet, the enemy ahead [Dm] of me!
If this is the end of me, at least [C] I have a friend [G] with me!
I've been in my hand, in command, and my men [Dm] with me!
Then I remember my [G] allies is expecting me!
Not only that, my allies is [Dm] expecting!
We gotta go, gotta get [D] the job done!
[G] Gotta start a new nation, gotta meet us!
[D] Get the [F] bullets out your gun!
The bullets [G] out your gun!
[A] We move undercover [G] and we [D] move as one!
Through the night we have one shot to live [G] another day!
[A] We cannot let a stray gun shot [D] give us away!
We will fight [F] up close, seize the moment [G] and stay in it!
[A] It's either that or meet with [C] this, the scent of a bayonet!
[F] The code word is Rochambeau!
Dig me?
[G] ROCHAMBEAU!
You have your orders now, go man, go!
[Dm] And so the American experiment [C] begins,
[G] with my friends all scattered to the winds!
[Dm] Warrens is in South Carolina, [C] redefining bravery!
[G] We'll never be free until we end slavery!
[Dm] When we finally drive the British [C] away,
[G] Lafayette is there waiting in Chesapeake Bay!
[Dm] How did we know that this plan [C] would work?
We [G] had a spy on the inside, that's [Am] right!
HERCULES [F] BULLAGAR!
I tell a squad, you know the [G] British government!
[A] I take their measurements, [C] information, and [D] then I smuggle it!
To my brothers, revolutionary [G] government!
[A] I'm honored with the sons of liberty and [D] I am lovely!
See [F] that's what happens when you ever [G] get the movie [A] ends!
We in the Chanel, [C] somebody's gotta shovel [F] it!
Hercules Mulligan!
I need no [A] introduction, when you knock me down I get the fuck back up!
MENU!
[Dm] _ _ _ [A] _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _
ROCHAMBEAU!
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ After a week of fighting, a young man in a red coat stands on a parapet.
We lower our guns as he frantically waves their white handkerchief.
_ [Dm] And just like that it's over, we tend [Gm] to our wounded, we count [Dm] our dead.
Black and white soldiers wonder [D] alike if this really means freedom.
Not yet.
[Dm] We negotiate the terms of [G] surrender.
I see George Washington [Dm] smile.
We escort their men out of [Bb] Yorktown.
They stagger home single [Dm] file, tens of thousands of people [Bb] flood the streets.
There are screams and church bells [Dm] ringing.
And as our [G] fallen foes retreat, [A] I hear the drinking song they're singing.
[Dm] The world turned [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] upside [G] _
down.
[D] The world turned upside [Bb]
down.
[G] _ [Dm] The world [A] turned upside down.
Down, [D] down, [Dm] down, down, down.
Freedom for [D] America, freedom for France!
Down, [A] down, down, down, down.
Got a stolen innovation, gotta need [Dm] my son!
Down, [D] down, down, down, down.
We won!
We won!
[A] We won!
We [F] won!
The world [G] turned upside _ _ _ _ [D] down. _ _ _