Ladies and gentlemen,
this is your king, George III.
Welcome to Hamilton.
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♪ 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, in 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 mainland ♪
♪ 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 went quick ♪
♪ Moved in with a cousin
The cousin committed suicide ♪
♪ Left him with nothing but ruined pride
Something new inside ♪
♪ A voice saying ♪
♪ "Alex, you gotta fend for yourself" ♪
♪ He started retreatin' and readin'
Every treatise on the shelf ♪
