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[00:03.10] How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore

[00:07.10] And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished,

[00:14.89] In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

[00:18.60] The ten-dollar founding father without a father

[00:22.11] Got a lot farther by working a lot harder

[00:25.40] By being a lot smarter By being a self-starter

[00:29.10] By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter

[00:33.86] And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away

[00:37.12] Across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up

[00:41.12] Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of

[00:44.60] The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter

[00:48.85] Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned

[00:52.35] Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain

[00:56.11] Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain

[01:00.11] And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain

[01:03.35] Well, the word got around, they said, this kid is insane, man

[01:07.64] Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland

[01:11.35] Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came

[01:15.10] And the world is gonna know your name

[01:17.60] What’s your name, man?

[01:18.85] Alexander Hamilton

[01:22.12] My name is Alexander Hamilton

[01:25.85] And there’s a million things I haven’t done

[01:29.37] But just you wait, just you wait

[01:33.60] When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden

[01:37.66] Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden

[01:41.60] Half-dead sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick

[01:45.35] And Alex got better but his mother went quick

[01:49.36] Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide

[01:53.10] Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside voice saying

[01:56.60] Alex, you gotta fend for yourself

[01:59.85] He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

[02:03.60] There would have been nothin' left to do for someone less astute

[02:06.88] He woulda been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution

[02:10.60] Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother’s landlord

[02:14.61] Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can’t afford

[02:18.10] Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on

[02:21.60] Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on the bow of a ship headed for a new land

[02:28.35] In New York you can be a new man

[02:32.10] In New York you can be a new man

[02:35.36] In New York you can be a new man

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[02:42.85] In New York you can be a new man

[02:44.88] In New York you can be a new man

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[02:46.10] Just you wait

[02:47.36] Alexander Hamilton

[02:49.36] We are waiting in the wings for you

[02:52.86] You could never back down

[02:54.66] You never learned to take your time

[03:00.12] Oh, Alexander Hamilton

[03:03.60] When America sings for you

[03:07.13] Will they know what you overcame?

[03:10.37] Will they know you rewrote your game?

[03:13.60] The world will never be the same, oh

[03:21.37] The ship is in the harbor now

[03:23.35] See if you can spot him

[03:25.35] Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom

[03:28.61] His enemies destroyed his rep America forgot him

[03:32.10] We fought with him

[03:33.86] Me, I died for him

[03:35.85] Me, I trusted him

[03:37.39] Me, I loved him

[03:39.10] And me, I’m the damn fool that shot him

[03:43.86] There’s a million things I haven’t done

[03:46.35] But just you wait

[03:49.39] What’s your name, man?

[03:50.87] Alexander Hamilton