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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

By being a self-starter
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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
     F#
Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
       G
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

          Bm
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
              D              F#
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

Sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick

And Alex got better but his mother went quick

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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

"You gotta fend for yourself" 

"Alex, you gotta fend for yourself"
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He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

     Bm
There would have been nothing left to do

For someone less astute, he woulda been
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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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Scannin' 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 

Be a new man      

Just you wait
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In New York you can 

Be a new man

Just you wait
   Em9
In New York you can

Be a new man

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In New York--

New York

Just you wait!

Bm
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
                                F#
You never learned to take your time
     Bm
Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
      G7
When America sings for you
           Em
Will they know what you overcame?
           D                   Em
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 
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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
     Em/G
His enemies destroyed his rep
Em/C#
America forgot him

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We fought with him

F#4         F#
Me? I died for him

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Me? I trusted him

Em6/F#       F#
Me? I loved him

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

           Em/G                         D
There's a million things I haven't done
             Em6/F#
But just you wait!

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What's your name, man?

Bm
Alexander Hamilton!

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