The Hamilton Polka

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[Verse 1]
             Em
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a
 whore and a
   B
Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a
 forgotten
  C
Spot in the Caribbean by providence,
 impoverished, in squalor
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Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
      Em
The ten-dollar Founding Father 
without a father
        B
Got a lot farther by working a lot 
harder
              C
By being a lot smarter

By being a self-starter
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By fourteen, they placed him in 
charge of the trading charter
   Em
Alexander Hamilton
          B
My name is Alexander Hamilton
      C
And there's a million things I 
haven't done
       G                 B
But just you wait, just you wait


[Verse 2]
     Em
Wait for it
     Em
Wait for it
     Em
Wait for it
     Em
Wait for it
   G                            
I am the one thing in life I can 
     Em
control
   Em
Wait for it
   Em
Wait for it
   Em
Wait for it
   Em
Wait for it
   C
I am inimitable
   C
I am an original
  Em                            G
And if there's a reason I'm still 
alive
  G
When so many have died
  G
Then I'm willin' to

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
    Bm
I'm willing to
    Em
Work, work!
    Em
Angelica!
    G
Work, work!
   G
Eliza!
    Em
And Peggy
                    G
Look around, at how lucky we are to 
be alive right now!
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History is happening in Manhattan 
and we just happen to be
        C
In the greatest city
           C                       
In the greatest city in the world! 
         Em
(In the Wor-or-or-or-orld)


[Verse 4]
     Em                A
The world turned upside down
     Em                A
The world turned upside down
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The world turned upside down
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           B   B    Ab   Em  N.C
The world turned upside down [roots 
only]: (da down down down hey)

[Interlude]
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Yeah you'll blow us all away
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[Verse 5]
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Oceans rise, empires fall
          A                      C
We have seen each other through it 
all
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And when push comes to shove
        A                   B     
I will send a fully armed 
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battalion to remind you of my love!
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Da da da dat da dat da da da day ya 
da
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Da da dat dat da day ya    dow!


[Verse 6]
Em
No one else was in
C
The room where it happened
Am
The room where it happened
D
The room where it happened
Em
No one else was in
C
The room where it happened
Am
The room where it happened
D
The room where it happened
Em                             C
No one really knows how the game is 
played
Am
The art of the trade
B
How the sausage gets made
C                                 B
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in the room where
              Bm  C
 it happens


[Verse 7]
          Fm
We are outgunned (What?)
Fm    Db
Outmanned (What?)
Fm    Edim
Outnumbered
Fm
Outplanned
Fm
We gotta make an all out stand
C         C     Bbm    Ab    Eb  F
Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man


[Verse 8]
Fm
Hamilton!
Fm
Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
Fm
Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I 
mean
C
Hamilton!
C
Sir, you're gonna have to use him 
eventually
C
What's he gonna do on the bench? I 
mean
Db
Hamilton!
Db
No one has more resilience
Db
Or matches my practical tactical 
brilliance
Ab
Hamilton!
Ab
You wanna fight for your land back?
C7
Hamilton!
C7
I need my right hand man back!
Fm
Uh, get ya right hand man back
Db
You know you gotta get ya right hand
 man back
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I mean you gotta put some thought 
                         Fm
into the letter but the sooner the 
better
Fm
To get your right hand man back!


[Verse 9]
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It must be nice, it must be nice
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To have Washington on your side
F                 Fsus4
It must be nice, it must be nice
Ebsus4         Eb
To have Washington on your side
F                Bbm
Look back at the Bill of Rights 
(Which I wrote!)
Dm7             Eb7
The ink hasn't dried
F                 Fsus4
It must be nice, it must be nice
Ebsus4       Eb             F
To have Washington on your side
F
Somebody has to stand up for the 
South!
Bbm
Somebody has to stand up to his 
mouth!
Dm
If there's a fire you're trying to 
douse
Eb
You can't put it out from inside the
 house
F
I'm in the cabinet, I am complicit 
in
F
Watching him grabbin' at power and 
kiss it
Eb
If Washington isn't gon' listen
N.C.
To disciplined dissidents, this is 
the difference:
             F
This kid is out

[Interlude]
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[Verse 10]
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In New York you can be a new man
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Em                                
How do you write like you're 
    D      G
running out of time?
G
Write day and night like you're 
running out of time?
Em                            
Every day you fight like you're 
     D
running out of time
             G
Like you're running out of time
            G
Are you running out of time?


[Verse 11]
Em                             G
Let me tell you what I wish I'd 
known
When I was young and dreamed of 
Am
glory
Am
You have no control
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Who lives, who dies, who tells 
      Em
your story
Em                   G
I know that we can win
G                         Am
I know that greatness lies in you
Am                       C
But remember from here on in
B               Em           G 
History has its eyes on you
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[Verse 12]
Em
And I am not throwing away my shot
     G
I am not throwing away my shot
             Am
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
Am
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
         C                    B
And I'm not throwing away my shot
         Em
We gonna rise up, time to take a 
shot (Not throwing away my shot)
          G
We gonna rise up, time to take a 
shot (Not throwing away my shot)
             Am
We're gonna rise up, rise up! (It's 
time to take a shot!)
Em
Rise up, rise up!
B
And I am not throwing away my
B                     Em
Not throwing away my shot


[Otro]
              C                    
There's a million things I haven't 
      G
done
      Am                B
But just you wait (Just wait)
N.C
What's your name, man?
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Alexander (Hamilton)
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Alexander (Hamilton)
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Alexander (Hamilton)
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Alexander