Musical/ Broadway Lyrics

Alexander Hamilton- Hamilton

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 10 his father split full of it debt ridden 

Two years later see 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 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 retreating and reading ever treatise on the shelf 

There would have been nothing left to do 

For someone less astute 

He would've been dead or destitute 

Without a cent of restitution 

Started working clerking for his late mother's 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 (ooh)

The bow of a ship headed for a new land 

In New York you can be a new man 

In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)

In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)

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)

You never backed down 

You never learned to take your time 

Oh Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)

America sings for you 

Will they know what you overcame 

Will they know you re-wrote the game 

The world will never be the same oh 

The ship is in the harbor now see if you can spot him

Just you wait 

Another immigrant coming up from the bottom

Just you wait 

His enemies destroyed his rep America forgot him 

We

Fought with him

Me

I died for him 

Me 

I trusted 

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