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 allot farther by working allot harder by being allot smarter by being a self starter by 14 they placed him in charge of a trading charter 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 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 land 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 don't but just you wait just you wait when he was ten his father split full of it debt ridden 2 years later Alex and his mother bed ridden half dead sitting in their own sick the scent thick and Alex got better but his mother went quick moved in with his cousin the cousin committed suicide left him with ruined pride something new inside a voice saying Alex you gotta fend for yourself he started retreating and reading every treatise on the shelf there would've been nothing left to do for someone less astute he woulda been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution started workin clerking for his late mothers landlord trading sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford scamming for every book he could get his hands on planning for the future see him now as he stands on the bow of a ship headed for new land 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 and Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton waiting in the wings for you waiting in the wings for you you never back down you 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 rewrote 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 is rep America forgot him we fought with him me I died for him me I trusted him me
I loved him and me I'm the dame
Fool that shot him there's a million things I haven't done but just you wait what your name man Alexander Hamilton
