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Chord diagramG minorGm                       Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm
I am not throwing away my shot
     Chord diagramBb majorBb                       Chord diagramBb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot
    Chord diagramBdimBdim    Chord diagramC minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
    Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramD#D#
And I'm not throwing away my shot

( Chord diagramD MajorD )

          Chord diagramG minorGm
I'mma get scholarship to King's College
     Chord diagramG minorGm       Chord diagramA minorAm                Chord diagramBb majorBb
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish
     Chord diagramBb majorBb        Chord diagramBdimBdim    Chord diagramC minorCm
The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish
   Chord diagramC minorCm        Chord diagramDmDm            Chord diagramD#D#
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word I drop knowledge

      Chord diagramG minorGm
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
Chord diagramA minorAm        Chord diagramBb majorBb                                            Chord diagramBdimBdim     Chord diagramC minorCm
Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable
                      Chord diagramDmDm
Only nineteen, but my mind is older
      Chord diagramD#D#                       Chord diagramD MajorD
These New York City streets getting colder, I shoulder
      Chord diagramG minorGm
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage
                        Chord diagramA minorAm    Chord diagramBb majorBb
I have learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish
                       N/A
I walk these streets famished
    Chord diagramC minorCm                  Chord diagramDmDm
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
     Chord diagramD#D#                           Chord diagramD MajorD
But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out my name
I am the-

Chord diagramG minorGm             Chord diagramA minorAm
A-L, E-X, A-N, Chord diagramD MajorD
Chord diagramBb majorBb
E-R-we are-meant to be

     Chord diagramC minorCm                       Chord diagramDmDm
Chord diagramA augmentedA colony that runs independently
           Chord diagramD#D#                      Chord diagramD MajorD
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly
      Chord diagramG minorGm
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
Chord diagramA minorAm        Chord diagramBb majorBb
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
Chord diagramBdimBdim     Chord diagramC minorCm                  Chord diagramDmDm
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free
              Chord diagramD#D#              Chord diagramD MajorD
So there will be a revolution in this century

N/A
ENTER ME!

    Chord diagramG minorGm
(He says in parentheses)

Chord diagramA minorAm       Chord diagramBb majorBb
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me
Chord diagramBdimBdim   Chord diagramC minorCm               Chord diagramDmDm
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
  Chord diagramD#D#                       Chord diagramD MajorD
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy

         Chord diagramG minorGm                        Chord diagramG minorGm  Chord diagramA minorAm
And I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
     Chord diagramBb majorBb                       Chord diagramBb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
    Chord diagramBdimBdim    Chord diagramC minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry

Chord diagramDmDm      Chord diagramD#D#                    Chord diagramD MajorD
And I'm not throwing away my shot

Chord diagramG minorGm                        Chord diagramG minorGm  Chord diagramA minorAm
I am not throwing away my shot
Chord diagramBb majorBb                        Chord diagramBb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot
    Chord diagramBdimBdim    Chord diagramC minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
    Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramD#D#                   Chord diagramD MajorD
And I'm not throwing away my shot
                    Chord diagramG minorGm
It's time to take a shot!

Chord diagramG minorGm                               Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm
I dream of life without the monarchy
Chord diagramBb majorBb                                    Chord diagramBb majorBb  Chord diagramBdimBdim
The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"
Chord diagramC minorCm                                    Chord diagramC minorCm  Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramD#D#
"Onarchy " How you say, how you s-Oh, anarchy!
                                   Chord diagramD MajorD
When I fight I make the other side panicky
With my

Chord diagramG minorGm
Shot!

Chord diagramG minorGm                           Chord diagramA minorAm
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
      Chord diagramBb majorBb                                  Chord diagramBdimBdim
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
     Chord diagramC minorCm                                          Chord diagramDmDm
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance
    Chord diagramD#D#                           Chord diagramD MajorD
To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants
I'm gonna take a
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
Chord diagramG minorGm
Shot!

              Chord diagramG minorGm                 Chord diagramA minorAm
Eh, but we'll never be truly free
   Chord diagramBb majorBb                                                   Chord diagramBdimBdim
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
Chord diagramC minorCm                                        Chord diagramDmDm     Chord diagramD#D#
You and I, do or die, wait till I sally in on a stallion
               Chord diagramD MajorD
With the first black battalion
Have another

Chord diagramG minorGm
Shot!

Chord diagramG minorGm                      Chord diagramG minorGm Chord diagramA minorAm
Geniuses, lower your voices
    Chord diagramBb majorBb                                 Chord diagramBb majorBb    Chord diagramBdimBdim
You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices
    Chord diagramC minorCm                      Chord diagramC minorCm    Chord diagramDmDm
I'm with you, but the situation is fraught
                            Chord diagramD#D#
You've got to be carefully taught:
                               Chord diagramG minorGm
If you talk, you're gonna get shot!

Chord diagramG minorGm                     Chord diagramA minorAm
Burr, check what we got
    Chord diagramBb majorBb                               Chord diagramBdimBdim
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
             Chord diagramC minorCm
I think your pants look hot
     Chord diagramDmDm
Laurens, I like you a lot
              Chord diagramD#D#                           Chord diagramD MajorD
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
             Chord diagramG minorGm                                         Chord diagramA minorAm
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
Chord diagramBb majorBb
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
Chord diagramBdimBdim       Chord diagramC minorCm                 Chord diagramDmDm        Chord diagramD#D#
Chord diagramA augmentedA 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

Let's get this guy in front of a crowd!

     Chord diagramG minorGm                        Chord diagramA minorAm
I am not throwing away my shot
     Chord diagramBb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot
    Chord diagramBdimBdim    Chord diagramC minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
        Chord diagramD#D#                Chord diagramD MajorD
And I'm not throwing away my shot

     Chord diagramG minorGm                        Chord diagramA minorAm
I am not throwing away my shot
     Chord diagramBb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot
    Chord diagramBdimBdim    Chord diagramC minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
        Chord diagramD#D#                Chord diagramD MajorD
And I'm not throwing away my shot

Everybody sing
Chord diagramG minorGm                                         Chord diagramBb majorBb
Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
Hey
                    Chord diagramC minorCm
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
Wooh!!
                    Chord diagramD#D#
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)
                        Chord diagramD MajorD
Sing let 'em hear ya (Yeah)

           Chord diagramG minorGm                Chord diagramA minorAm  Chord diagramBb majorBb
Let's go! (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
I said, shout it to the rooftops
  Chord diagramBdimBdim   Chord diagramC minorCm
(Wo-oh-oh)
Said to the rooftops
    Chord diagramDmDm  Chord diagramD#D#
(Wo-oh-oh)
Now come on
  Chord diagramD MajorD
(Yeah)
Now come on, let's go

Chord diagramG minorGm
Rise up
                                 Chord diagramA minorAm   Chord diagramBb majorBb
When you're living on your knees, you rise up
                            Chord diagramBdimBdim   Chord diagramC minorCm
Tell your brother that he's got to rise up
                            Chord diagramDmDm     Chord diagramD#D#
Tell your sister that she's got to rise up

          Chord diagramD MajorD                   Chord diagramG minorGm
When are these colonies gonna rise up
(Whoa, woah)
                        Chord diagramA minorAm    Chord diagramBb majorBb
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
                        Chord diagramBdimBdim  Chord diagramC minorCm
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
                        Chord diagramDmDm    Chord diagramD#D#
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
Chord diagramD MajorD
Rise up

          Chord diagramG minorGm
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
                  Chord diagramBb majorBb
When's it's gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
Chord diagramC minorCm
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be?
Chord diagramD#D#                          Chord diagramD MajorD
Is it like a beat without a melody?
             Chord diagramG minorGm
See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
                  Chord diagramBb majorBb
Where I come from some get half as many
            Chord diagramC minorCm
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask
Chord diagramD#D#                                Chord diagramD MajorD
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty

Chord diagramG minorGm
Scratch that
                                    Chord diagramA minorAm  Chord diagramBb majorBb
This is not a moment, it's the movement
                                                   Chord diagramBdimBdim
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went
Chord diagramC minorCm                                 Chord diagramDmDm
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
Chord diagramD#D#                  Chord diagramD MajorD
We roll like Moses, claimin' our Promised Land

Chord diagramG minorGm                         Chord diagramA minorAm
And? If we win our independence?
Chord diagramBb majorBb                                        Chord diagramBdimBdim
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Chord diagramC minorCm                                     Chord diagramDmDm
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
Chord diagramD#D#                      Chord diagramD MajorD
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?

Chord diagramG minorGm
I know the action in the street is excitin'
          Chord diagramBb majorBb
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'
                              Chord diagramC minorCm
I've been readin' 'n writin'
                                      Chord diagramDmDm
We need to handle our financial situation
Chord diagramD#D#                          Chord diagramD MajorD
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?

Chord diagramG minorGm                               Chord diagramG minorGm           Chord diagramA minorAm       Chord diagramBb majorBb
I'm past patiently waitin'! I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
               Chord diagramBb majorBb     Chord diagramBdimBdim
Every action's an act of creation
     Chord diagramC minorCm
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
        Chord diagramD#D#
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow

Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramG minorGm                       Chord diagramA minorAm
And I am not throwin' away my shot
     Chord diagramBb majorBb
I am not throwin' away my shot
     Chord diagramBdimBdim    Chord diagramC minorCm
Hey, yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
        Chord diagramD#D#                  Chord diagramD MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot

We gonna
 Chord diagramG minorGm
rise up; time to take a shot
(Not thrown' away my shot)

   Chord diagramA minorAm
We gonna

Chord diagramBb majorBb
rise up; time to take a shot
(Not throwin' away my shot)

   Chord diagramBdimBdim
We gonna

Chord diagramC minorCm
(rise up, rise up)

It's time to take a shot

 Chord diagramD#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)

Chord diagramD#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

Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramD MajorD    Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramG5G5

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