Hamilton - My Shot chords by Soundtracks

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HAMILTON:

   G minorGm             G minorGm  A minorAm
I am not throwing away my shot

   Bb majorBb             Bb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot

   BdimBdim     C minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
   DmDm   Eb MajorEb
And I'm not throwing away my shot

D MajorD

      G minorGm
I'mma get scholarship to King's College

   G minorGm     A minorAm          Bb majorBb
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish

   Bb majorBb      BdimBdim     C minorCm
The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish

  C minorCm      DmDm        Eb MajorEb
I gotta holler just to be heard

With every word I drop knowledge

    G minorGm
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal

 A minorAm      Bb majorBb                        BdimBdim     C minorCm
Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable

            DmDm
Only nineteen, but my mind is older

    Eb MajorEb             D MajorD
These New York City streets getting colder, I shoulder

    G minorGm
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage

             A minorAm    Bb majorBb
I have learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish

            N/A
I walk these streets famished
   C minorCm           DmDm
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame

   Eb MajorEb               D MajorD
But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out my name

I am the—

HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN, LAURENS:

G minorGm       A minorAm
A-L, E-X, A-N, D MajorD
 Bb majorBb
E-R—we are—meant to be


HAMILTON:

   C minorCm             DmDm
A augmentedA colony that runs independently

      D#D#             D MajorD
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly

    G minorGm
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly

 A minorAm      Bb majorBb
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree

 BdimBdim     C minorCm           DmDm
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free

        Eb MajorEb         D MajorD
So there will be a revolution in this century


N/A
ENTER ME!


LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:

   G minorGm
(He says in parentheses)


HAMILTON:

 A minorAm     Bb majorBb
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me

 BdimBdim    C minorCm         DmDm
I will lay down my life if it sets us free

  Eb MajorEb             D MajorD
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy


HAMILTON and (LAURENS):

     G minorGm              G minorGm   A minorAm
And I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)

   Bb majorBb             Bb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)

   BdimBdim     C minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy, and hungry


HAMILTON & LAURENS:

 DmDm     Eb MajorEb            D MajorD
And I'm not throwing away my shot


HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:

 G minorGm              G minorGm   A minorAm
I am not throwing away my shot

 Bb majorBb              Bb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot

   BdimBdim     C minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
   DmDm   Eb MajorEb           D MajorD
And I'm not throwing away my shot

           G minorGm
It's time to take a shot!


LAFAYETTE:

 G minorGm                 G minorGm  A minorAm
I dream of life without the monarchy

 Bb majorBb                    Bb majorBb   BdimBdim
The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"

 C minorCm                     C minorCm   DmDm   D#D#
"Onarchy?" How you say, how you s—Oh, anarchy!

                  D MajorD
When I fight I make the other side panicky

With my


HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:

 G minorGm
Shot!


MULLIGAN:

 G minorGm               A minorAm
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice

    Bb majorBb                   BdimBdim
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis

   C minorCm                       DmDm
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance

   Eb MajorEb               D MajorD
To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants

I'm gonna take a
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
 G minorGm
Shot!


LAURENS:

        G minorGm          A minorAm
Eh, but we'll never be truly free

  Bb majorBb                           BdimBdim
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me

 C minorCm                      DmDm    Eb MajorEb
You and I, do or die, wait till I sally in on a stallion

        D MajorD
With the first black battalion

Have another


HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:

 G minorGm
Shot!


BURR:

 G minorGm             G minorGm  A minorAm
Geniuses, lower your voices

   Bb majorBb                  Bb majorBb    BdimBdim
You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices

   C minorCm             C minorCm    DmDm
I'm with you, but the situation is fraught

               Eb MajorEb
You've got to be carefully taught:

                G minorGm (once)
If you talk, you're gonna get shot!


HAMILTON:

 G minorGm            A minorAm
Burr, check what we got

   Bb majorBb                 BdimBdim
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot

       C minorCm
I think your pants look hot

   DmDm
Laurens, I like you a lot

        Eb MajorEb               D MajorD
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot

       G minorGm                      A minorAm
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot

 Bb majorBb
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not

 BdimBdim      C minorCm          DmDm      Eb MajorEb
A 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


LAURENS:

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


COMPANY:

   G minorGm              A minorAm
I am not throwing away my shot

   Bb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot

   BdimBdim     C minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
     Eb MajorEb          D MajorD
And I'm not throwing away my shot


   G minorGm              A minorAm
I am not throwing away my shot

   Bb majorBb
I am not throwing away my shot

   BdimBdim     C minorCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
     Eb MajorEb          D MajorD
And I'm not throwing away my shot


LAURENS and (HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN):
:
Everybody sing
G minorGm                     Bb majorBb
Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
Hey
           C minorCm
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)

Wooh!!
           Eb MajorEb
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)

             D MajorD
Sing let 'em hear ya (Yeah)


LAURENS and (COMPANY):

      G minorGm          A minorAm   Bb majorBb
Let's go! (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)

I said, shout it to the rooftops
  BdimBdim    C minorCm
(Wo-oh-oh)

Said to the rooftops
   DmDm   Eb MajorEb
(Wo-oh-oh)

Now come on
  D MajorD
(Yeah)

Now come on, let's go


LAURENS:

 G minorGm
Rise up

                 A minorAm   Bb majorBb
When you're living on your knees, you rise up

               BdimBdim    C minorCm
Tell your brother that he's got to rise up

               DmDm    D#D#
Tell your sister that she's got to rise up


LAURENS & ENSEMBLE and (COMPANY):

      D MajorD           G minorGm
When are these colonies gonna rise up

(Whoa, woah)
             A minorAm    Bb majorBb
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)

             BdimBdim    C minorCm
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)

             DmDm    D#D#
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)

 D MajorD
Rise up


HAMILTON:

      G minorGm
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

          Bb majorBb
When's it's gonna get me?

In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
 C minorCm
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be?

 Eb MajorEb               D MajorD
Is it like a beat without a melody?

       G minorGm
See, I never thought I'd live past twenty

          Bb majorBb
Where I come from some get half as many

       C minorCm
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask

 Eb MajorEb                  D MajorD
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty


 G minorGm
Scratch that

                   A minorAm   Bb majorBb
This is not a moment, it's the movement

                          BdimBdim
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went

 C minorCm                  DmDm
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand

 Eb MajorEb           D MajorD
We roll like Moses, claimin' our Promised Land


 G minorGm              A minorAm
And? If we win our independence?

 Bb majorBb                      BdimBdim
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?

 C minorCm                    DmDm
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless

 Eb MajorEb             D MajorD
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?


 G minorGm
I know the action in the street is excitin'

      Bb majorBb
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'

                C minorCm
I've been readin' 'n writin'

                    DmDm
We need to handle our financial situation

 Eb MajorEb               D MajorD
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?


 G minorGm                 G minorGm       A minorAm     Bb majorBb
I'm past patiently waitin'! I'm passionately smashin' every expectation

        Bb majorBb    BdimBdim
Every action's an act of creation

   C minorCm
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow

     Eb MajorEb
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow


HAMILTON & COMPANY:

 D MajorD     G minorGm             A minorAm
And I am not throwin' away my shot

   Bb majorBb
I am not throwin' away my shot

   BdimBdim     C minorCm
Hey, yo, I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
     Eb MajorEb           D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot


HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS and (ENSEMBLE):

We gonna
 G minorGm
Rise up; time to take a shot

(Not thrown’ away my shot)

  A minorAm
We gonna


 Bb majorBb
Rise up; time to take a shot

(Not throwin’ away my shot)

  BdimBdim
We gonna


 C minorCm
(rise up, rise up)


HAMILTON:

It’s time to take a shot


HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS and (ENSEMBLE):

 Eb MajorEb
(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)

 Eb MajorEb
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

COMPANY:

 D MajorD   D MajorD   D MajorD   D MajorD   D MajorD        G5G5
Not throwing away my shot!   the above is the button at the very end: