WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Broadway - Hamilton - My Shot Ukulele | Ver. 1
HAMILTON:
Em Em F#m
I am not throwing away my shot
G G
I am not throwing away my shot
G#dim Am
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scr*ppy, and hungry
Bm C
And I'm not throwing away my shot
B
Em
I'mma get scholarship to King's College
Em F#m G
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish
G G#dim Am
The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish
Am Bm C
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word I drop knowledge
Em
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
F#m G G#dim Am
Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable
Bm
Only nineteen, but my mind is older
C B
These New York City streets getting colder, I shoulder
Em
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage
F#m G
I have learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish
N/A
I walk these streets famished
Am Bm
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
C B
But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out my name
I am the—
HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN, LAURENS:
Em F#m
A-L, E-X, A-N, D
G
E-R—we are—meant to be
HAMILTON:
Am Bm
A colony that runs independently
C B
Meanwhile, Britain keeps sh*tting on us endlessly
Em
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
F#m G
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
G#dim Am Bm
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free
C B
So there will be a revolution in this century
N/A
ENTER ME!
LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:
Em
(He says in parentheses)
HAMILTON:
F#m G
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me
G#dim Am Bm
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
C B
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy
HAMILTON and (LAURENS):
Em Em F#m
And I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
G G
I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
G#dim Am
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scr*ppy, and hungry
[HAMILTON & LAURENS]
Bm C B
And I'm not throwing away my shot
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
Em Em F#m
I am not throwing away my shot
G G
I am not throwing away my shot
G#dim Am
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scr*ppy, and hungry
Bm C B
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Em
It's time to take a shot!
LAFAYETTE:
Em Em F#m
I dream of life without the monarchy
G G G#dim
The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"
Am Am Bm C
"Onarchy?" How you say, how you s—Oh, anarchy!
B
When I fight I make the other side panicky
With my
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
Em
Shot!
MULLIGAN:
Em F#m
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
G G#dim
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
Am Bm
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance
C B
To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants
I'm gonna take a
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
Em
Shot!
LAURENS:
Em F#m
Eh, but we'll never be truly free
G G#dim
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
Am Bm C
You and I, do or die, wait till I sally in on a stallion
B
With the first black battalion
Have another
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
Em
Shot!
BURR:
Em Em F#m
Geniuses, lower your voices
G G G#dim
You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices
Am Am Bm
I'm with you, but the situation is fraught
C
You've got to be carefully taught:
Gm (once)
If you talk, you're gonna get shot!
HAMILTON:
Em F#m
Burr, check what we got
G G#dim
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
Am
I think your pants look hot
Bm
Laurens, I like you a lot
C B
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
Em F#m
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
G
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
G#dim Am Bm C
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists
N/A
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is
Oh, am I talkin' too loud?
Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth
I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I'll make y'all proud
LAURENS:
Let's get this guy in front of a crowd!
COMPANY:
Em F#m
I am not throwing away my shot
G
I am not throwing away my shot
G#dim Am
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scr*ppy, and hungry
C B
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Em F#m
I am not throwing away my shot
G
I am not throwing away my shot
G#dim Am
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scr*ppy, and hungry
C B
And I'm not throwing away my shot
LAURENS and (HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN):
Everybody sing
Em G
Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
Hey
Am
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
Wooh!!
C
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
B
Sing let 'em hear ya (Yeah)
LAURENS and (COMPANY):
Em F#m G
Let's go! (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
I said, shout it to the rooftops
G#dim Am
(Wo-oh-oh)
Said to the rooftops
Bm C
(Wo-oh-oh)
Now come on
B
(Yeah)
Now come on, let's go
LAURENS:
Em
Rise up
F#m G
When you're living on your knees, you rise up
G#dim Am
Tell your brother that he's got to rise up
Bm C
Tell your sister that she's got to rise up
LAURENS & ENSEMBLE and (COMPANY)
B Em
When are these colonies gonna rise up
(Whoa, woah)
F#m G
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
G#dim Am
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
Bm C
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
B
Rise up
HAMILTON:
Em
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
G
When's it's gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
Am
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be?
C B
Is it like a beat without a melody?
Em
See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
G
Where I come from some get half as many
Am
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask
C B
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty
Em
Scratch that
F#m G
This is not a moment, it's the movement
G#dim
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went
Am Bm
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
C B
We roll like Moses, claimin' our Promised Land
Em F#m
And? If we win our independence?
G G#dim
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Am Bm
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
C B
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
Em
I know the action in the street is excitin'
G
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'
Am
I've been readin' 'n writin'
Bm
We need to handle our financial situation
C B
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?
Em Em F#m G
I'm past patiently waitin'! I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
G G#dim
Every action's an act of creation
Am
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
C
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow
HAMILTON & COMPANY:
B Em F#m
And I am not throwin' away my shot
G
I am not throwin' away my shot
G#dim Am
Hey, yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scr*ppy, and hungry
C B
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS and (ENSEMBLE):
We gonna
Em
rise up; time to take a shot
(Not thrown' away my shot)
F#m
We gonna
G
rise up; time to take a shot
(Not throwin' away my shot)
G#dim
We gonna
Am
(rise up, rise up)
HAMILTON:
It's time to take a shot
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS and (ENSEMBLE):
C
(Rise up, rise up)
It's time to take a shot (rise up, rise up)
(Wo-oah) Time to take a shot (rise up)
Take a shot, a shot, a shot, (Oh-Oh, oh)
C
A-yo, it's time to take a shot (Woah, oh-oh oh)
Time to take a shot (Woah-oh)
And I am (And I am)
N/A
Not throwing away my
COMPANY:
B B B B B E5
Not throwing away my shot!
