(This is my first tab/chord, so be forewarned of some slight miscalculations with beat.
I tried to match it up as close as I could with the Original Broadway Recording.
If there are any corrections,
this is open to be corrected. Have fun and don't throw away your shot :D)
[HAMILTON]
Gm Gm Am
I am not throwing away my shot
Bb Bb
I am not throwing away my shot
Bdim Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
Dm D#
And I'm not throwing away my shot
D
Gm
I'mma get scholarship to King's College
Gm Am Bb
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish
Bb Bdim Cm
The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish
Cm Dm D#
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word I drop knowledge
Gm
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
Am Bb Bdim Cm
Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable
Dm
Only nineteen, but my mind is older
D# D
These New York City streets getting colder, I shoulder
Gm
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage
Am Bb
I have learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish
N/A
I walk these streets famished
Cm Dm
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
D# D
But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out my name
I am the—
[HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN, LAURENS]
Gm Am
A-L, E-X, A-N, D
Bb
E-R—we are—meant to be
[HAMILTON]
Cm Dm
A colony that runs independently
D# D
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly
Gm
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
Am Bb
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
Bdim Cm Dm
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free
D# D
So there will be a revolution in this century
N/A
ENTER ME!
[LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN]
Gm
(He says in parentheses)
[HAMILTON]
Am Bb
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me
Bdim Cm Dm
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
D# D
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy
[HAMILTON and (LAURENS)]
Gm Gm Am
And I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
Bb Bb
I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
Bdim Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
[HAMILTON & LAURENS]
Dm D# D
And I'm not throwing away my shot
[HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE]
Gm Gm Am
I am not throwing away my shot
Bb Bb
I am not throwing away my shot
Bdim Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
Dm D# D
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Gm
It's time to take a shot!
[LAFAYETTE]
Gm Gm Am
I dream of life without the monarchy
Bb Bb Bdim
The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"
Cm Cm Dm D#
"Onarchy?" How you say, how you s—Oh, anarchy!
D
When I fight I make the other side panicky
With my
[HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE]
Gm
Shot!
[MULLIGAN]
Gm Am
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
Bb Bdim
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
Cm Dm
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance
D# D
To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants
I'm gonna take a
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
Gm
Shot!
[LAURENS]
Gm Am
Eh, but we'll never be truly free
Bb Bdim
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
Cm Dm D#
You and I, do or die, wait till I sally in on a stallion
D
With the first black battalion
Have another
[HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE]
Gm
Shot!
[BURR]
Gm Gm Am
Geniuses, lower your voices
Bb Bb Bdim
You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices
Cm Cm Dm
I'm with you, but the situation is fraught
D#
You've got to be carefully taught:
Gm (once)
If you talk, you're gonna get shot!
[HAMILTON]
Gm Am
Burr, check what we got
Bb Bdim
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
Cm
I think your pants look hot
Dm
Laurens, I like you a lot
D# D
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
Gm Am
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
Bb
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
Bdim Cm Dm D#
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists
N/A
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is
Oh, am I talkin' too loud?
Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth
I 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!
[COMPANY]
Gm Am
I am not throwing away my shot
Bb
I am not throwing away my shot
Bdim Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
D# D
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Gm Am
I am not throwing away my shot
Bb
I am not throwing away my shot
Bdim Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
D# D
And I'm not throwing away my shot
[LAURENS and (HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN)]
:
Everybody sing
Gm Bb
Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
Hey
Cm
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
Wooh!!
D#
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
D
Sing let 'em hear ya (Yeah)
[LAURENS and (COMPANY)]
Gm Am Bb
Let's go! (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
I said, shout it to the rooftops
Bdim Cm
(Wo-oh-oh)
Said to the rooftops
Dm D#
(Wo-oh-oh)
Now come on
D
(Yeah)
Now come on, let's go
[LAURENS]
Gm
Rise up
Am Bb
When you're living on your knees, you rise up
Bdim Cm
Tell your brother that he's got to rise up
Dm D#
Tell your sister that she's got to rise up
[LAURENS & ENSEMBLE and (COMPANY)]
D Gm
When are these colonies gonna rise up
(Whoa, woah)
Am Bb
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
Bdim Cm
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
Dm D#
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
D
Rise up
[HAMILTON]
Gm
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
Bb
When's it's gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
Cm
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be?
D# D
Is it like a beat without a melody?
Gm
See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
Bb
Where I come from some get half as many
Cm
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask
D# D
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty
Gm
Scratch that
Am Bb
This is not a moment, it's the movement
Bdim
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went
Cm Dm
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
D# D
We roll like Moses, claimin' our Promised Land
Gm Am
And? If we win our independence?
Bb Bdim
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Cm Dm
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
D# D
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
Gm
I know the action in the street is excitin'
Bb
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'
Cm
I've been readin' 'n writin'
Dm
We need to handle our financial situation
D# D
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?
Gm Gm Am Bb
I'm past patiently waitin'! I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
Bb Bdim
Every action's an act of creation
Cm
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
D#
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow
[HAMILTON & COMPANY]
D Gm Am
And I am not throwin' away my shot
Bb
I am not throwin' away my shot
Bdim Cm
Hey, yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
D# D
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
[HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS and (ENSEMBLE)]
We gonna
Gm
rise up; time to take a shot
(Not thrown’ away my shot)
Am
We gonna
Bb
rise up; time to take a shot
(Not throwin’ away my shot)
Bdim
We gonna
Cm
(rise up, rise up)
[HAMILTON]
It’s time to take a shot
[HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS and (ENSEMBLE)]
D#
(Rise up, rise up)
It’s time to take a shot (rise up, rise up)
(Wo-oah) Time to take a shot (rise up)
Take a shot, a shot, a shot, (Oh-Oh, oh)
D#
A-yo, it's time to take a shot (Woah, oh-oh oh)
Time to take a shot (Woah-oh)
And I am (And I am)
N/A
Not throwing away my
[COMPANY]
D D D D D G5
Not throwing away my shot! [the above is the button at the very end]
