01-03_original_broadway_cast_of_hamilton_-_my_shot

[00:00.01] I am not throwing away my shot

[00:02.26] I am not throwing away my shot

[00:04.78] Hey yo, I'm just like my country

[00:06.25] I'm young, scrappy and hungry

[00:07.33] And I'm not throwing away my shot

[00:09.84] I'ma get a scholarship to King's College

[00:11.86] I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish

[00:14.58] The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish

[00:17.35] I gotta holler just to be heard

[00:19.09] With every word, I drop knowledge

[00:20.86] I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal

[00:23.60] Tryin' to reach my goal my power of speech, unimpeachable

[00:26.36] Only nineteen but my mind is older

[00:28.60] These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder

[00:31.08] Every burden, every disadvantage

[00:32.60] I have learned to manage, I don't have a gun to brandish

[00:35.86] I walk these streets famished

[00:37.37] The plan is to fan this spark into a flame

[00:39.08] But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out the name

[00:42.34] I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R we are meant to be

[00:47.11] A colony that runs independently

[00:49.84] Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin' on us endlessly

[00:52.33] Essentially, they tax us relentlessly

[00:55.10] Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree

[00:57.86] He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free

[01:00.36] So there will be a revolution in this century

[01:03.11] Enter me, he says in parentheses

[01:05.60] Don't be shocked when your hist'ry book mentions me

[01:08.34] I will lay down my life if it sets us free

[01:11.10] Eventually, you'll see my ascendancy

[01:13.63] And I am not throwing away my shot

[01:16.10] I am not throwing away my shot

[01:18.62] Hey yo, I'm just like my country

[01:20.35] I'm young, scrappy and hungry

[01:21.86] And I'm not throwing away my shot

[01:24.11] I am not throwing away my shot

[01:26.61] I am not throwing away my shot

[01:29.17] Hey yo, I'm just like my country

[01:31.10] I'm young, scrappy and hungry

[01:32.36] And I'm not throwing away my shot

[01:34.60] It's time to take a shot

[01:36.08] I dream of life without a monarchy

[01:37.86] The unrest in France will lead to onarchy?

[01:40.36] Onarchy how you say, how you say, anarchy?

[01:43.10] When I fight, I make the other side panicky

[01:45.84] With my, shot

[01:47.33] Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice

[01:48.36] And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis

[01:50.85] I'm joining the rebellion 'cause I know it's my chance

[01:53.58] To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants

[01:55.85] I'm gonna take a shot

[01:57.16] But we'll never be truly free

[01:58.85] Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me

[02:01.34] You and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in

[02:04.10] On a stallion with the first black battalion

[02:06.87] Have another shot

[02:07.88] Geniuses, lower your voices

[02:09.39] You keep out of trouble and you double your choices

[02:11.84] I'm with you, but the situation is fraught

[02:14.36] You've got to be carefully taught

[02:16.61] If you talk, you're gonna get shot

[02:18.86] Burr, check what we got

[02:20.36] Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot

[02:22.35] I think your pants look hot

[02:23.89] Laurens, I like you a lot

[02:25.12] Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot

[02:27.37] What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot

[02:30.40] Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not

[02:32.87] A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?

[02:36.15] Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is

[02:38.85] Oh, am I talkin' too loud?

[02:41.10] Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth

[02:43.65] I never had a group of friends before

[02:45.62] I promise that I'll make y'all proud

[02:47.63] Let's get this guy in front of a crowd

[02:49.13] I am not throwing away my shot

[02:51.63] I am not throwing away my shot

[02:54.15] Hey yo, I'm just like my country

[02:55.64] I'm young, scrappy and hungry

[02:57.14] And I'm not throwing away my shot

[02:59.43] I am not throwing away my shot

[03:02.18] I am not throwing away my shot

[03:04.70] Hey yo, I'm just like my country

[03:05.97] I'm young, scrappy and hungry

[03:07.47] And I'm not throwing away my shot

[03:09.70] Everybody sing

[03:10.96] Whoa, whoa, whoa

[03:13.96] Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa

[03:18.70] Ay, let 'em hear ya

[03:20.00] Let's go

[03:21.31] Whoa, whoa, whoa I said shout it to the rooftops

[03:25.07] Whoa, whoa, whoa said, to the rooftops

[03:27.60] Whoa, whoa, whoa come on

[03:31.06] Come on, let's go

[03:31.83] Rise up

[03:32.10] When you're living on your knees, you rise up

[03:34.84] Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up

[03:37.85] Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up

[03:40.64] When are these colonies gonna rise up?

[03:43.13] When are these colonies gonna rise up?

[03:45.64] When are these colonies gonna rise up?

[03:48.38] When are these colonies gonna rise up?

[03:50.91] Rise up

[03:51.87] I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

[03:54.88] When's it gonna get me?

[03:56.12] In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me?

[03:58.11] If I see it comin', do I run or do I let it be?

[04:00.87] Is it like a beat without a melody?

[04:02.87] See, I never thought I'd live past twenty

[04:04.64] Where I come from some get half as many

[04:07.64] Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask

[04:11.62] We have to make this moment last, that's plenty

[04:13.94] Scratch that this is not a moment, it's the movement

[04:16.42] Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went?

[04:19.17] Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand

[04:22.18] We roll like Moses, claimin' our promised land

[04:24.93] And? If we win our independence?

[04:27.94] 'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?

[04:30.43] Or will the blood we shed begin an endless cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?

[04:35.43] I know the action in the street is excitin'

[04:37.92] But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'

[04:39.70] I've been readin' 'n writin'

[04:40.95] We need to handle our financial situation

[04:43.18] Are we a nation of states what's the state of our nation?

[04:46.43] I'm past patiently waitin' I'm passionatelymashin' every expectation

[04:49.99] Every action's an act of creation

[04:51.48] I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow

[04:53.73] For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow

[04:56.25] And I am not throwing away my shot

[04:58.98] I am not throwing away my shot

[05:01.48] Hey yo, I'm just like my country

[05:03.23] I'm young, scrappy and hungry

[05:04.75] And I'm not throwing away my shot

[05:06.74] We're gonna rise up (time to take a shot)

[05:08.75] We're gonna rise up (time to take a shot)

[05:12.50] We're gonna, rise up, rise up

[05:14.73] It's time to take a shot

[05:15.54] Rise up, rise up, it's time to take a shot

[05:17.98] Rise up, it's time to take a shot

[05:19.82] Rise up, take a shot, shot, shot

[05:23.06] It's time to take a shot, time to take a shot

[05:25.54] And I am not throwing away my shot

[05:27.28] Not throwing away my shot