Tonart: B minor•
Verse 1
F#
Bm
How does a bastard, orphan,
son of a whore and a
F#
Scotsman
Dropped in the middle of a
Bm
G
forgotten spot in the
Caribbean
By
D
Bm
D
Providence, impoverished and squalor
A#
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
Bm
The ten dollar founding
father without a father
F#
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
G
By being a lot smarter,
by being a self -starter
D
A#
by 14 they placed him in charge of a trading charter
Bm
and every day while slaves were being
F#
slaughtered and carted away across the waves he
G
struggled and kept his guard up inside he was
D
longing for something to be a part of the brother was
F#
ready to beg steal borrow or barter then a
Bm
F#
hurricane came and devastation reigned our man
saw his future drip dripping down the drain
G
Put a pencil to his temple,
connected it to his brain
D
And he wrote his first refrain,
F#
a testament to his pain
Bm
Well the word got around,
F#
they said this kid is insane, man
Took up a collection just to
send him to the main, man
don't forget from whence you came
D
And the world's gonna know your name,
F#
what's your name, man?
Hamilton
My name is
F#
Alexander
Hamilton
Bm
G
And there's a million
things I haven't done
D
F#
But just you wait, just you wait
Bm
When he was ten, his father split
Full of it, debt ridden
F#
Two years later, see
Alex and his mother
Bedridden, half dead
G
Sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick
And
F#
Bm
Alex got better, but his mother wiped
Bm
Moved in with a cousin,
the cousin committed suicide
F#
Left him with nothing but rue and pride,
G
something new inside a voice saying
Alex, you gotta fend for yourself
D
He started retreating and reading
F#
every treatise on the shelf
Bm
But there would've been nothing
left to do for someone less astute
D
F#
He would've been dead or destitute
D
without a cent or restitution
Bm
working for his late mother's landlord
D
F#
Trading sugarcane and rum and all
the things he can't afford
Bm
Scamming for every book he
can get his hands on
F#
Waiting for the future,
G
see him now with his hands on the bow of a ship
Heading for a new land, in
D
New
F#
York you can be a new man
In
Bm
New
York you can be a new man
In
G
New
York you can be a new man
In
New
Em
Bm
Em
York you can be a new man
In
F#
New
F#sus4
York,
New
Bm
Alexander
Hamilton,
Alexander
Hamilton
G
We are waiting in the wings for you
Waiting in the wings for you
Em
Nev er back down and never
F#
G
F#
learn to take your time
Oh,
Bm
Alexander
Hamilton
Alexander
Hamilton
When
Em
Will they know what you overcame?
G
Bm
Em
Will they know you deroged the game?
Bm
G
A
D
The world will never be the same,
F#
A#dim
F#
oh
Bm
Ship is in the harbor now,
see if you can spot him
D
Another immigrant coming
G
His enemies destroyed his rep,
C#dim
Amer ica forgot him
Me, I died for him
F#
C#dim
Me, I loved him
F#
C#dim
And me, I'm the damn
fool that shot him
F#
G
Asus4
There's a million things I haven't done,
D
F#
Em
F#
but just you wait
Bm
F#
What's your name, man?
Alexander
Hamilton
Bm
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