Alexander Hamilton
[00:03.15] How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
[00:07.40] Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a
[00:11.15] Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence
[00:13.65] Impoverished, in squalor
[00:15.65] Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
[00:18.40] The ten-dollar founding father without a father
[00:21.90] Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
[00:25.40] By being a lot smarter
[00:27.15] By being a self-starter
[00:29.15] By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a
[00:32.15] Trading charter
[00:33.40] And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted
[00:36.90] Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
[00:40.90] Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of
[00:44.65] The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter
[00:48.15] Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
[00:51.90] Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
[00:55.90] Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
[00:59.65] And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
[01:03.40] Well, the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man”
[01:07.15] Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
[01:11.15] “Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and
[01:14.90] The world is gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?”
[01:18.65] Alexander Hamilton
[01:21.90] My name is Alexander Hamilton
[01:25.65] And there’s a million things I haven’t done
[01:32.65] But just you wait, just you wait...
[01:33.90] When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
[01:37.40] Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden
[01:40.90] Half-dead sittin in their own sick, the scent thick
[01:44.90] And Alex got better but his mother went quick
[01:49.15] Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
[01:52.78] Left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, something new inside
[01:56.53] A voice saying
[01:57.54] “Alex, you gotta fend for yourself.”
[01:59.78] He started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf
[02:03.53] There would have been nothin’ left to do
[02:05.28] For someone less astute
[02:06.53] He woulda been dead or destitute
[02:08.28] Without a cent of restitution
[02:10.28] Started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s landlord
[02:14.28] Tradin’ sugar cane and rum and all the things he can’t afford
[02:17.78] Scammin’ for every book he can get his hands on
[02:21.54] Plannin’ for the future see him now as he stands on
[02:24.79] The bow of a ship headed for a new land
[02:28.03] In New York you can be a new man
[02:31.79] In New York you can
[02:33.53] Be a new man— (Just you wait!)
[02:35.29] In New York you can
[02:37.28] Be a new man— (Just you wait!)
[02:38.79] In New York you can be a new man—
[02:42.29] In New York—
[02:43.29] New York—
[02:44.29] Just you wait!
[02:46.04] Alexander Hamilton
[02:47.79] (Alexander Hamilton)
[02:49.29] We are waiting in the wings for you
[02:51.29] (Waiting in the wings for you)
[02:52.78] You could never back down
[02:54.28] You never learned to take your time!
[02:59.29] Oh, Alexander Hamilton
[03:01.79] (Oh, Alexander Hamilton)
[03:03.29] When America sings for you
[03:06.92] Will they know what you overcame?
[03:09.92] Will they know you rewrote the game?
[03:13.42] The world will never be the same, oh
[03:21.17] The ship is in the harbor now
[03:23.17] See if you can spot him
[03:25.17] Just you wait
[03:25.31] Another immigrant
[03:26.81] Comin’ up from the bottom
[03:28.31] Just you wait
[03:28.56] His enemies destroyed his rep
[03:29.81] America forgot him
[03:32.06] We fought with him
[03:33.81] Me? I died for him
[03:35.56] Me? I trusted him
[03:37.31] Me? I loved him
[03:38.81] And me? I’m the damn fool that shot him
[03:40.81] There’s a million things I haven’t done
[03:45.81] But just you wait!
[03:49.06] What’s your name, man?
[03:50.56] Alexander Hamilton!
