Hamilton - My Shot chords by Soundtracks

HAMILTON:

      Gm                          Gm    Am
I am not throwing away my shot

      Bb                          Bb
I am not throwing away my shot

     Bdim         Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

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

D

           Gm
I'mma get scholarship to King's College

      Gm          Am                   Bb
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish

      Bb           Bdim         Cm
The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish

    Cm           Dm               Eb
I gotta holler just to be heard

With every word I drop knowledge

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

 Am           Bb                                               Bdim          Cm
Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable

                       Dm
Only nineteen, but my mind is older

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

       Gm
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage

                         Am       Bb
I have learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish

                       N/A
I walk these streets famished
     Cm                     Dm
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame

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

I am the—


HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN, LAURENS:

Gm             Am
A-L, E-X, A-N, D
 Bb
E-R—we are—meant to be



HAMILTON:

      Cm                          Dm
A colony that runs independently

            D#                         D
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly

       Gm
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly

 Am           Bb
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree

 Bdim          Cm                     Dm
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free

               Eb                 D
So there will be a revolution in this century


N/A
ENTER ME!


LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:

     Gm
(He says in parentheses)



HAMILTON:

 Am          Bb
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me

 Bdim        Cm                  Dm
I will lay down my life if it sets us free

   Eb                          D
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy



HAMILTON and (LAURENS):

          Gm                           Gm     Am
And I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)

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

     Bdim         Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy, and hungry


HAMILTON & LAURENS:

 Dm         Eb                       D
And I'm not throwing away my shot



HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:

 Gm                           Gm     Am
I am not throwing away my shot

 Bb                           Bb
I am not throwing away my shot

     Bdim         Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

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

                     Gm
It's time to take a shot!



LAFAYETTE:

 Gm                                  Gm    Am
I dream of life without the monarchy

 Bb                                       Bb     Bdim
The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"

 Cm                                         Cm     Dm     D#
"Onarchy?" How you say, how you s—Oh, anarchy!

                                    D
When I fight I make the other side panicky

With my


HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:

 Gm
Shot!



MULLIGAN:

 Gm                              Am
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice

       Bb                                     Bdim
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis

      Cm                                             Dm
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance

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

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



LAURENS:

               Gm                    Am
Eh, but we'll never be truly free

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

 Cm                                           Dm        Eb
You and I, do or die, wait till I sally in on a stallion

                D
With the first black battalion

Have another


HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:

 Gm
Shot!



BURR:

 Gm                         Gm    Am
Geniuses, lower your voices

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

     Cm                         Cm       Dm
I'm with you, but the situation is fraught

                             Eb
You've got to be carefully taught:

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


HAMILTON:

 Gm                        Am
Burr, check what we got

     Bb                                  Bdim
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot

              Cm
I think your pants look hot

      Dm
Laurens, I like you a lot

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

              Gm                                            Am
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot

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

 Bdim            Cm                    Dm           Eb
A 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:

      Gm                           Am
I am not throwing away my shot

      Bb
I am not throwing away my shot

     Bdim         Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

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


      Gm                           Am
I am not throwing away my shot

      Bb
I am not throwing away my shot

     Bdim         Cm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country

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



LAURENS and (HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN):
:
Everybody sing
Gm                                         Bb
Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
Hey
                     Cm
Wo-oh-oh (Wo-oh-oh)

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

                         D
Sing let 'em hear ya (Yeah)



LAURENS and (COMPANY):

            Gm                   Am     Bb
Let's go! (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)

I said, shout it to the rooftops
   Bdim        Cm
(Wo-oh-oh)

Said to the rooftops
     Dm     Eb
(Wo-oh-oh)

Now come on
   D
(Yeah)

Now come on, let's go


LAURENS:

 Gm
Rise up

                                  Am      Bb
When you're living on your knees, you rise up

                             Bdim        Cm
Tell your brother that he's got to rise up

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



LAURENS & ENSEMBLE and (COMPANY):

           D                     Gm
When are these colonies gonna rise up

(Whoa, woah)
                         Am       Bb
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)

                         Bdim       Cm
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)

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

 D
Rise up



HAMILTON:

           Gm
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

                   Bb
When's it's gonna get me?

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

 Eb                             D
Is it like a beat without a melody?

              Gm
See, I never thought I'd live past twenty

                   Bb
Where I come from some get half as many

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

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


 Gm
Scratch that

                                     Am     Bb
This is not a moment, it's the movement

                                                    Bdim
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went

 Cm                                    Dm
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand

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


 Gm                            Am
And? If we win our independence?

 Bb                                           Bdim
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?

 Cm                                        Dm
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless

 Eb                         D
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?


 Gm
I know the action in the street is excitin'

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

                               Cm
I've been readin' 'n writin'

                                       Dm
We need to handle our financial situation

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


 Gm                                  Gm              Am          Bb
I'm past patiently waitin'! I'm passionately smashin' every expectation

                Bb        Bdim
Every action's an act of creation

      Cm
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow

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



HAMILTON & COMPANY:

 D          Gm                          Am
And I am not throwin' away my shot

      Bb
I am not throwin' away my shot

      Bdim         Cm
Hey, yo, I'm just like my country

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



HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS and (ENSEMBLE):

We gonna
  Gm
Rise up; time to take a shot

(Not thrown’ away my shot)

    Am
We gonna


 Bb
Rise up; time to take a shot

(Not throwin’ away my shot)

    Bdim
We gonna


 Cm
(rise up, rise up)


HAMILTON:

It’s time to take a shot


HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS and (ENSEMBLE):

  Eb
(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
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     D      D     D     D                G5
Not throwing away my shot!      the above is the button at the very end: