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