#Hamilton ReWrite: FRev Edition

[vesseloftherevolution]

On @keepthyfaithandthylight’s post on Farmer Refuted being Camille arguing with someone, myself and @idefilarate have been on and off rewriting songs from Hamilton to be about FRev, and thought I should post them here.

So! We haven’t been doing this in any order, and occasionally had to cut bits as they didn’t fit with the narrative, but it should still sound excellent. I’ll be posting these with the tag #Hamilton ReWrite: FRev Edition.

We start with a very Camille song - Nonstop!

Camille: After Aux Armes I went back to North Bank

Maxime: A-after all that I went back to North Bank

I finished up my studies and I practiced law

Camille: I began to write, Maxime worked next door

Maxime: Even though we started at the very same time

Camille Desmoulins began to climb

How to account for his rise to the top?

Man, the man is non-stop

Camille: Gentlemen of the jury, I'm curious, bear with me

Are you aware that we're making hist'ry?

This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation

The liberty behind deliberation

I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt

With my assistant counsel

Maxime: Co-counsel

Camille, sit down!

Our client is innocent

Call your first witness

That's all you had to say

Camille: Okay

One more thing–

Maxime: Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Soon that attitude may be your doom!

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

Write day and night like you're running out of time?

Every day you fight, like you're running out of time

Keep on fighting, in the meantime-

Camille: Corruption's such an old song that we can sing

Along in harmony and nowhere is it stronger

Than in St Germaine

This country's economy's increasingly stalling and

Honestly that's why he's just public service seems

To be calling me

I practiced the law, I practically perfected it

I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it

Now for a strong central democracy

If not, then I'll be Socrates

Throwing verbal rocks at these mediocrities

Maxime: Camille, at the National Convention

Camille: I was chosen for the National Convention!

Maxime: There as a Cordeliers junior delegate

Camille: Now what I'm going to say may sound indelicate

Maxime: Goes and proposes his own form of government (What?)

His own plan for a new form of government (What?)

Talks for six hours, the convention is listless

Lafayette: Bright young man

Brissot: Yo, who the eff is this?

Maxime and Danton: Why do you always say what you believe?

Why do you always say what you believe?

Every proclamation guarantees

Free ammunition for your enemies (Awww!)

Why do you write like it's going out of style? (Hey)

Write day and night like it's going out of style? (Hey)

Every day you fight like it's going out of style

Do what you do

Maxime: Camille?

Camille: Maximilian, sir

Maxime: Well, it's the middle of the night

Camille: Can we confer, sir?

Maxime: Is this a legal matter?

Camille: Yes, and it's important to me

Maxime: What do you need?

Camille: Maxime, you're a better lawyer than me

Maxime: Okay

Camille: I know I talk too much, I'm abrasive

You're incredible in court

You're succinct, persuasive

My client needs a strong defense

You're the solution

Maxime: Who's your client?

Camille: The new Old Cordelier?

Maxime: No

Camille: Hear me out

Maxime: No way!

Camille: A series of essays, anonymously published

Defending the document to the public

Maxime: No one will read it

Camille: I disagree

Maxime: And if it fails?

Camille: Maxime, that's why we need it

Maxime: The meaning's a mess

Camille: So it needs amendments

Maxime: It's full of contradictions

Camille: So is independence

We have to start somewhere

Maxime. No, no way

Camille: You're making a mistake

Maxime: Good night

Camille: Hey

What are you waiting for?

What do you stall for? (What?)

We won the war

What was it all for?

Do you support this pamphlet?

Maxime: Of course

Camille: Then defend it

Maxime: And what if you're backing the wrong horse?

Camille: Maxime, we studied and we fought and we killed

For the notion of a nation we now get to build

For once in your life, take a stand with pride

I don't understand how you stand to the side

Maxime: I'll keep all my plans close to my chest

(Wait for it, wait for it, wait)

I'll wait here and see which way the wind will blow

I'm taking my time, watching the afterbirth of a nation

Watching the tension grow

Lucile: Look at where you are

Look at where you started

The fact that you're alive is a miracle

Just stay alive, that would be enough

And if your wife could share a fraction of your time

If I could grant you peace of mind

Would that be enough?

Maxime: Camille joins forces with George’s Danton

And Fabre D’Eglantine to write a series of essays

Defending the new Convention

Entitled Le Vieux Cordelier

The plan was to write a total of 25 essays

The work divided evenly among the three men

In the end, they wrote 85 essays

In the span of six months

Fabre got sick after writing five

Georges Danton wrote 29

Camille wrote the other 51

How do you write like you're running out of time? (Running out of time?)

Write day and night like you're running out of time? (Running out of time?)

Every day you fight, like you're running out of time

Like you're running out of time

Are you running out of time? Awwww!

How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive?

How do you write like you need it to survive?

How do you write every second you're alive?

Every second you're alive? Every second you're alive?

Danton: They're asking me to lead

I am doing the best I can

To get the people that I need

I'm asking you to be my right-hand man (Secretary or Accountant?)

I know it's a lot to ask (Secretary or Accountant?)

To leave behind the world you know

Camille: Sir, do you want me to be your Secretary or your accountant?

Danton: Secretary

Camille: Let's go!

Lucile: Camille

Camille: I have to leave

Lucile: Camille–

Camille: Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now

Lucile: Helpless

All: They are asking me to lead

Look around, isn't this enough?

He never will be satisfied (What would be enough)

He will never be satisfied (To be satisfied)

Satisfied, satisfied

History has its eyes on you (Look around)

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? (Non-stop)

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? (Non-stop)

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? (History has its eyes)

Why do you fight like you're running out of time? (Non-stop)

Why do you fight like

History has its eyes on you

Camille: I am not throwin' away my shot (Just you wait)

I am not throwin' away my shot (Just you wait)

I am Camille Desmoulins

Desmoulins, just you wait

I am not throwin' away my shot

[vesseloftherevolution]

I apologise for the delay (I have been rather caught up in work), but here we are with another Hamilton FRev rewrite!

Here is Washington on Your Side! Taking a break from Camille being dramatic, we are moving to the equally dramatic people who want to kill him

Brissot: It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Robespierre on your side

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Robespierre on your side

Every action has an equal opposite reaction

Thanks to Desmoulins, the convention has fractured into factions

Try not to crack under the stress, we're breaking down like fractions

We smack each other in the press, and we don't print retractions

SJ: I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion

The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion

Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration

As aristocrats rob 'em blind in search of chips to cash in

This prick is asking for someone to bring him to task

Somebody give me some dirt on his vacuous mask

So we can, at last, unmask him

I'll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock it

While we were all watching, he got Robespierre in his pocket

Brissot: Look back at the Bill of Rights (Which I wrote!)

The ink hasn't dried

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Robespierre on your side

If we don't stop it, we aid and abet it

I have to resign

Somebody has to stand up for the provinces

Well, somebody has to stand up to his mouth

If there's a fire you're trying to douse

You can't put it out from inside the house

SJ: Oh! This ganymede isn't somebody we chose

Oh! This journalist keeping us all on our toes

Oh! Let's show these cordeliers what they're up against

Oh! Parisien motherfucking Montagnard-Republicans

We won't be invisible

We won't be denied

Still, it must be nice, it must be nice

To have Robspierre on your side

[vesseloftherevolution]

The saga continues! Today, poor Camille is under a lot of stress. It’s the Reynolds Pamphlet!

Full company (Parisian coffee house):

“Le Vieux Cordelier

Have you read this?

Camille Desmoulins attacked the CSP

And half of Paris seems to agree

SJ/ Billaud Varennes/Collot Highlights!

"The charge against me is in connection with one Fabre d’Eglantine

For purposes of improper speculation

My real crime is a too apt quotation from Tacitus

Originally written with Robespierre’s consent. “

Lindet: Damn!

SJ/ Billaud Varennes/Collot : "I had frequent meetings with him

Most of them at my own house"

Damn!

"Saint Just, with his jealousy, being absent

On a visit to the frontier"

No

Boo!

Have you read this sh-?

Well, he's clearly going to be guillotined now

Well, he's clearly going to be guillotined now

Well, he's clearly going to be guillotined now

Well, he's clearly going to be guillotined now

Well, he's clearly going to be guillotined now

Well, he's clearly going to be guillotined now

That's one less thing to worry about

That's one less thing to worry about

Annette: I came as soon as I heard (what?)

Camille: Annette , thank God

Someone who understands what I'm

Struggling here to do

Annette: I'm not here for you (ooh!)

I know my daughter like I know my own mind

You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind

I love my daughter more than anything in this life

I will choose her happiness over mine every time

Put what we had aside, I'm standing at her side

You could never be satisfied, God, I hope you're satisfied

SJ/ Billaud Varennes/Collot: Well, he's clearly going to be guillotined now etc

Ensemble: Le Vieux Cordelier

Have you read this?

You ever see somebody ruin their own life?

His poor wife…”