{BURR}
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?
{LAURENS}
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 fourteen. They placed him in charge of a trading charter.
{JEFFERSON}
And everyday 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 apart of, the brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter.
{MADISON}
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.
{BURR}
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?"
{HAMILTON}
Alexander Hamilton. My name is Alexander Hamilton. And, there's a million things I haven't done. But just you wait. Just you wait...
{ELIZA SCHUYLER/HAMILTON}
When he was ten his father split, full of it, dept-ridden. Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden, half-dead sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick.
{FULL COMPANY EXCEPT HAMILTON}
(Whispering)
And Alex got better but his mother went quick.
{WASHINGTON}
Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide. Left him with nothin' but ruined pride. Something new inside, a voice saying..
{COMPANY ONLY}
"Alex,"
{WASHINGTON AND COMPANY}
"You gotta fend for yourself."
{WASHINGTON}
He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf.
{BURR}
There would of been nothin' left to do, for someone less astute. He woulda been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution. Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord. Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford.
{BURR AND COMPANY}
Scammin'!
{BURR}
For every book he can get his hands on.
{BURR AND COMPANY}
Plannin'!
{BURR}
For the future, see him now as he stands on, the bow of a ship, headed for a new land.
{COMPANY}
Oooh...
{BURR}
In New York you can be a new man.
{COMPANY}
In New York you can-
{HAMILTON}
Just you wait.
{COMPANY}
-be a new man. In New York you can-
{HAMILTON}
Just you wait.
{COMPANY}
-be a new man. In New York you can be a new man.
{WOMEN}
In New York-
{MEN}
New York-
{HAMILTON}
Just you wait!
{COMPANY 1}
Alexander Hamilton.
{COMPANY 2}
Alexander Hamilton.
{COMPANY 1}
We are waiting in the wings for you.
{COMPANY 2}
Waiting in the wings for you.
{ALL COMPANY}
You could never back down. Never learned to take your, time!
{COMPANY 1}
Oh, Alexander Hamilton.
{COMPANY 2}
Alexander Hamilton.
{COMPANY 1}
When America sings for you.
{COMPANY 2}
Will they know what you overcame?
{ALL COMPANY}
Will they know you rewrote the game?
The world, will never be the same, oh.
{BURR}
The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him.
{MEN}
Just you wait.
{BURR}
Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom.
{COMPANY}
Just you wait.
{BURR}
His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him.
{MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON}
We, fought with him.
{LAURENS/PHILIP}
Me? I died for him.
{WASHINGTON}
Me? I trusted him.
{ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA}
Me? I loved him.
{BURR}
And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him.
{COMPANY}
There's a million things I haven't done. But just you wait!
{BURR}
What's your name, man?
{COMPANY}
Alexander Hamilton!
