_Alexander Hamilton_ from HAMILTON
[00:00.89] AARON BURR:
[00:03.15] How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
[00:07.17] Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten
[00:11.18] Spot in the Caribbean by Providence, impoverished, in squalor
[00:15.71] Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
[00:18.22] JOHN LAURENS:
[00:18.72] The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
[00:22.00] Got a lot farther by workin’ a lot harder
[00:25.25] By bein’ a lot smarter
[00:27.27] By bein’ a self-starter
[00:29.28] By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
[00:33.29] THOMAS JEFFERSON:
[00:33.79] And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted
[00:37.30] Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
[00:41.08] Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of
[00:44.85] The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter
[00:48.35] JAMES MADISON:
[00:48.86] Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
[00:52.13] Our man saw his future drip, drippin’ down the drain
[00:56.66] Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
[00:59.67] And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
[01:03.19] BURR:
[01:03.69] Well the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man!”
[01:07.45] Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
[01:11.22] “Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and
[01:14.98] The world’s gonna know your name! What’s your name, man?"
[01:18.25] ALEXANDER HAMILTON:
[01:18.75] Alexander Hamilton
[01:22.03] My name is Alexander Hamilton
[01:25.80] And there’s a million things I haven’t done
[01:29.06] But just you wait, just you wait
[01:33.08] ELIZA HAMILTON:
[01:33.58] When he was ten, his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
[01:37.33] Two years later, see Alex and his mother, bed-ridden
[01:41.37] Half-dead, sittin’ in their own sick
[01:43.88] The scent thick
[01:45.40] COMPANY:
[01:45.65] And Alex got better but his mother went quick
[01:48.65] GEORGE WASHINGTON and (COMPANY):
[01:48.90] Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
[01:52.92] Left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, somethin’ new inside
[01:56.43] A voice saying "(Alex) you gotta fend for yourself"
[01:59.70] He started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf
[02:03.47] BURR and (COMPANY):
[02:03.72] There would’ve been nothin’ left to do
[02:05.48] For someone less astute
[02:06.73] He would’ve been dead or destitute
[02:08.50] Without a cent of restitution
[02:10.50] Started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s landlord
[02:14.51] Tradin’ sugar cane and rum and other things he can’t afford
[02:17.77] (Scammin’) for every book he can get his hands on
[02:21.53] (Plannin’) for the future, see him now as he stands on (oooh)
[02:25.05] The bow of a ship headed for a new land
[02:28.31] In New York you can be a new man
[02:31.56] COMPANY and (HAMILTON):
[02:31.81] In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)
[02:35.33] In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)
[02:39.10] In New York you can be a new man
[02:42.21] WOMEN:
[02:42.78] In New York
[02:43.28] MEN:
[02:43.78] New York
[02:44.28] HAMILTON:
[02:44.53] Just you wait
[02:46.04] COMPANY and (COMPANY):
[02:46.29] Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
[02:49.32] We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)
[02:52.83] You could never back down
[02:54.60] You never learned to take your time
[02:59.62] Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
[03:03.39] When America sings for you
[03:06.90] Will they know what you overcame?
[03:11.17] Will they know you rewrote the game?
[03:14.44] The world will never be the same, oh
[03:20.74] BURR and (COMPANY):
[03:21.50] The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him
[03:24.50] (Just you wait)
[03:25.51] Another immigrant comin’ up from the bottom
[03:27.77] (Just you wait)
[03:28.78] His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him
[03:31.58] MULLIGAN/MADISON AND LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON:
[03:32.08] We fought with him
[03:33.34] LAURENS/PHILLIP:
[03:33.84] Me? I died for him
[03:35.10] WASHINGTON:
[03:35.60] Me? I trusted him
[03:37.35] ANGELICA SCHUYLER, ELIZA, MARIA REYNOLDS:
[03:37.60] Me? I loved him
[03:38.85] BURR:
[03:39.36] And me? I’m the damn fool that shot him
[03:42.38] COMPANY:
[03:43.89] There’s a million things I haven’t done
[03:46.15] But just you wait
[03:49.41] BURR:
[03:49.66] What’s your name, man?
[03:50.67] HAMILTON & COMPANY:
[03:51.17] Alexander Hamilton!
