Hamilton:
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Ima get a scholarship to Kings college
I probably shouldn't brag but dag
I amaze and astonish
The problem is I gotta lot of brains
But no polish
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word
I drop knowledge
I'm a diamond in the rough
A shiny piece of coal
Tryna reach my goal
My power of speech unimpeachable
Only 19 but my mind is older
These New York City streets get colder
I shoulder
Every burden
Every disadvantage
I have learned to manage
I don't have a gun to brandish
I walk these streets famished
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
But damn it's getting dark
So let me spell out the name
I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R
We are meant to be
A colony that runs independently
Meanwhile Britain keeps shitting
On us endlessly
Essentially they tax us relentlessly
Then King George turns around
Runs a spending spree
He ain't never gonna set
His descendents free
So there will be a revolution
In this century
Enter me!
(He says in parentheses)
Don't be shocked
When you're history book
Mentions me
I will lay down my life
If it sets us free
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy
And I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
It's time to take a shot
Lafayette:
I dream of life without the monarchy
The unrests in France will lead to
Onarchy, onarchy
How you say, how you say
Oh anarchy
And when I fight
I make the other side panicky with my
Shot!
Mulligan:
Yo I'm a tailor's apprentice
And I got y'all knuckleheads
In loco parentis
I'm joining the rebellion
Cause I know it's my chance
To socially advance
Instead of sewing some pants
I'm gonna take a shot!
Hamilton:
But we'll never be truly free
Until those in bondage
Have the same rights as you and me
You and I
Do or die
Wait til I sally in on a stallion
With the first black battalion
Have another shot!
Burr:
Geniuses, lower your voices
You keep out of trouble
And you double your choices
I'm with you
But the situation is fraught
You've got to be carefully taught
If you talk you gonna get shot!
Hamilton:
Burr, check what we got
Mr. Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot
I think your pants look hot
Laurens I like you a lot
Let's hatch a plot
Blacker than the kettle calling the pot
What are the odd the gods
Would put us all in one spot
Popping a squat
On conventional wisdom
Like it or not
A bunch of revolutionary Manumission abolitionists
Give me a position
Show me where the ammunition is
Oh, am I talking too loud?
Sometimes I get over-excited
Shoot off at the mouth
I've never had a group of friends before
I promise that I'll make y'all proud
Laurens:
Let's get this guy in front of a crowd!
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
The trio:
Ev'rybody sing
Woah woah woah
Hey!
Woah oh oh
Woah oh oh
Sing let em hear ya
(Yea!)
Let's go
Woah woah woah
(I said shout it to the rooftops)
Woah oh oh
(Said to the rooftops)
Woah oh oh
Come on (yeah!)
Come on let's go
Hamilton:
Rise up
When you living on your knees you
Rise up
Tell your brother that he's gotta
Rise up
Tell your sister that she's gotta rise
The trio:
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
(Woah woah woah!)
When are these colonies gonna rise up
(Woah oh oh)
When are these colonies gonna rise up
(Woah oh oh)
When are these colonies gonna rise up
(Woah oh oh)
Rise up rise up
Hamilton:
I imagine death so much it feels
More like a memory
When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep?
Seven feet ahead of me?
If I see it coming
Do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody
See I thought I'd never live past twenty
Where I come from
Some get half as many
Ask anybody why we living fast and We laugh, reach for a flask
We have to make this moment last
That's plenty
Scratch that
This is not the moment
It's the movement
Where all the hungriest brothers
With something to prove went
Foes oppose us
We take an honest stand
We roll like Moses
Claiming our promised land
And?
If we win our independence
Is that a guarantee of freedom
For our descendants
Or will the blood be shed
Begin an endless
Cycle of vengeance
And death with no defendants
I know the action in the street is excitin
But Jesus, between all the bleeding and fighting
I've been reading and writing
We need to handle our financial situation
Are we a nation of states
What's the state of our nation
I'm past patiently waiting
I'm passionately smashing
Every expectation
Every actions an act of creation
I'm laughing in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time I'm thinking past tomorrow
Ev'ryone:
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo I'm just like my country
I'm young scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
We're gonna rise up! Time to take a shot
(Not throwing away my shot)
We're gonna rise up! Time to take a shot
(Not throwing away my shot)
We're gonna
Rise up! Rise up!
It's time to take a shot
Rise up! Rise up!
It's time to take a shot
Rise up! It's time to take a shot
(Woah!)
Rise up!
Take a shot shot shot
A-yo it's time to take a shot
Time to take a shot
And I am not throwing away my
Not throwing away my shot!
A/N
This took forever to write
Sorry it's so long
1,137 words
Welp sorry but that's how long the song is
Mackenzie👋
