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Tuning: G C E A
(BURR)
How does a bAmastard, orphan, son of a whore and a EScotsman, dropped in the middle of a Forgotten sFpot in the Caribbean by providence Impoverished, in sqCualor Grow up to be a G#dimhero and a scholar?
(LAURENS)
The tAmen-dollar founding father without a father Got a lEot farther by working a lot harder By being a lFot smarter
By being a self-starter
By fouCrteen, they placed him in cG#dimharge of a trading charter
(JEFFERSON)
And eAmvery day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted AEway across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up InFside he was longing for something to be a part of The bCrother was ready to beg, sG#dimteal, borrow, or barter
(MADISON)
Then a hAmurricane came, and devastation reigned Our mEan saw his future drip, dripping down the drain Put a pFencil to his temple, connected it to his brain And he wCrote his first refrain, a tEsus4estament to hisE pain
(BURR)
Well the wAmord got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" ETook up a collection just to send him to the mainland F"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came and the woCrld is gonna know your G#dimname. What's your name, man?"
(HAMILTON)
AmAlexander Hamilton My name is AElexander Hamilton And there's a Fmillion things I haven't done But just you wCait, just you wEait...
(ELIZA)
When he was Amten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden Two yEears later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden half-Fdead
Sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick (COMPANY) N/A And Alex got better but his mother went quick (WASHINGTON)
AmMoved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide ELeft him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside A Fvoice saying
(WASHINGTON) // (COMPANY) "You gotta fend for yourself" // "Alex, you gotta fend for yourself" (WASHINGTON)
He started retrCeatin' and readin' every tG#dimreatise on the shelf
(BURR)
There Amwould have been nothing left to do For someone less astute, he woulda been EDead or destitute without a sense of restitution Started wForkin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord CTradin' sugar cane and rum and G#dimall the things he can't afford AmScammin' for every book he can get his hands on EPlannin' for the future see him now as he stands on The Fbow of a ship headed for a new land In CNew York you can G#dimbe a new man
(COMPANY)
In AmNew York you can // (HAMILTON) Be a new man // Just you wait In AdimNew York you can // (HAMILTON)
Be a new man // Just you wait
In Am/ENew York you can Be a new man
(WOMEN)
In ENew York-- (MEN) New York
(HAMILTON) Just you wait! (COMPANY)
AmAlexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) We are wF7aiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you) You could nDmever back down You never learned to take your tEime Oh, AAmlexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) When AF7merica sings for you Will they kDmnow what you overcame? Will they kCnow you rewrote the Dmgame? The wAmorld will nFever Cbe the E7same, oh
(BURR)
The Amship is in the harbor now // (COMPANY) Am/CSee if you can spot him // Just you wait ACnother immigrant ComiDmn' up from the bottom // Just you wait Dm * His enemies destroyed his rep
America forgot him (MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON)
Esus4We foughEt with him (LAURENS/PHILLIP) Esus4Me? I died Efor him
(WASHINGTON)
Dsus2Me? I tAsus/Drusted him (ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA) DmMe? I lovDm9ed him
(BURR)
AndAm/E me? I'm the damn fool that shot him (COMPANY) There's a mDmillion things I haven't done C But just you Esus4wait!
(BURR) What's your name, man? (COMPANY)
AmAlexander Hamilton! Am