Misc Musicals – Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton (Guitar)

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How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a

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Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a

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Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence

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Impoverished, in squalor

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Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

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The ten-dollar founding father without a father

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Got a lot farther by working a lot harder

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By being a lot smarter

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By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter

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And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted

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Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up

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Inside he was longing for something to be a part of

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The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter

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Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned

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Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain

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Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain

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And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain

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Well the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man"

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Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland

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"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came

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and the world is gonna know your name." What's your name, man?

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Alexander Hamilton

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My name is Alexander Hamilton

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And there's a million things I haven't done

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But just you wait, just you wait...

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When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden

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Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden half-dead

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Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide

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Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside

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A voice saying

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He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

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There would have been nothing left to do

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Dead or destitute without a sense of restitution

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Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord

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Tradin' sugarcane and rum and all the things he can't afford

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Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on

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Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on

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The bow of a ship headed for a new land

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In New York you can be a new man

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In New York you can   //  (HAMILTON)

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In New York you can   // (HAMILTON)

   Em9
In New York you can

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In New York--

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Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)

        G7
We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)

           Em
You could never back down

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You never learned to take your time

     Bm
Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)

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When America sings for you

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Will they know what you overcame?

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Will they know you rewrote the game?

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The world will never be the same, oh

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The ship is in the harbor now  //  (COMPANY)

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See if you can spot him        //  Just you wait

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Another immigrant

    Em
Comin' up from the bottom      //  Just you wait

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His enemies destroyed his rep

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America forgot him

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We fought with him

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Me? I died for him

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Me? I trusted him

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Me? I loved him

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And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him

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There's a million things I haven't done

             Em6/F#
But just you wait!

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What's your name, man?

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Alexander Hamilton!