[Intro]
F#
[BURR]
Bm
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
F#
Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten
G
Spot in the Caribbean by Providence, impoverished, in squalor
D F#/A#
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
[LAURENS]
Bm
The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
F#
Got a lot farther by workin’ a lot harder
G
By bein’ a lot smarter, By bein’ a self-starter
D F#/A#
By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
[JEFFERSON]
Bm
And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted
F#
Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
G
Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of
D F#/A#
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter
[MADISON]
Bm
Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
F#
Our man saw his future drip, drippin’ down the drain
G
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
D F#/A#
And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
[BURR]
Bm
Well the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man!”
F#
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
G
“Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and
D F#/A#
The world’s gonna know your name! What’s your name, man?"
[HAMILTON]
Bm
Alexander Hamilton
F#/A#
My name is Alexander Hamilton
G
And there’s a million things I haven’t done
D F#/A#
But just you wait, just you wait
[ELIZA]
Bm
When he was ten, his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
F#
Two years later, see Alex and his mother, bed-ridden
G
Half-dead, sittin’ in their own sick, The scent thick
[COMPANY]
D F#/A#
And Alex got better but his mother went quick
[WASHINGTON]
Bm
Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
F#
Left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, somethin’ new inside
[WASHINGTON & COMPANY]
G
A voice saying "(Alex) you gotta fend for yourself"
[WASHINGTON]
D F#/A#
He started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf
[BURR]
Bm
There would’ve been nothin’ left to do for someone less astute
F#
He would’ve been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution
G
Started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s landlord
D F#/A#
Tradin’ sugar cane and rum and other things he can’t afford
Bm
(Scammin’) for every book he can get his hands on
F#
(Plannin’) for the future, see him now as he stands on (pooh)
G
The bow of a ship headed for a new land
D F#/A#
In New York you can be a new man
[HAMILTON & COMPANY]
Bm
In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)
G7
In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)
Em9
In New York you can be a new man
F#7sus
In New York
F#/A#
Just you wait
[COMPANY & COMPANY]
Bm
Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
G7
We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)
Em9
You could never back down
F#7sus F#7/C#
You never learned to take your time Oh
Bm
Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
G7
When America sings for you
Em9
Will they know what you overcame?
Bm/D Em
Will they know you rewrote the game?
Bm/F# Em9/G D/D F#7/A#
The world will never be the same, oh
[BURR]
Bm Bm/C#
The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him
Bm/D Em7
Another immigrant comin’ up from the bottom
Em/G Em/C#
His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him
[MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON]
F#7sus F#7
We fought with him
[LAURENS/PHILIP]
F#7sus F#7
Me? I died for him
[WASHINGTON]
Bm9/F# F#7
Me? I trusted him
[ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA]
Em6/F# F#
Me? I loved him
[BURR]
C#m7 F#
And me? I’m the damn fool that shot him
[COMPANY]
Em/G D
There’s a million things I haven’t done
Em6/F#
But just you wait
[BURR]
F#7 Bm/D F#7/C#
What’s your name, man?
[COMPANY]
Bm
Alexander Hamilton!
