WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Broadway - Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton Chords | Ver. 1
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How does a
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Bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
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Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten
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spot in the Carribean by providence impoverished in squalor 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 workin' a lot harder
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By bein' a lot smarter
By bein' 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, our man saw his future drip, drippin' 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, and
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The world's gonna know your name! What's your name, man?"
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Alexander Hamilton
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My name is Alexander Hamilton, 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
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Half-dead, sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick
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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, somethin' new inside
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A voice saying "(Alex) you gotta fend for yourself"
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He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf
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There would've been nothin' left to do for someone less astute
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He would've been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution
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Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
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Tradin' sugar cane and rum and other 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 be a new man (Just you wait)
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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
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In New York
New York
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Just you wait
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Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
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We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)
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You could never back down
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You never learned to take your time
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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, see if you can spot him
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Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom
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His enemies destroyed his rep, 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
There's a million things I haven't done
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But just you wait
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What's your name, man?
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Alexander Hamilton!
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