Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton Ukulele chords by Soundtracks

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How does a bastard orphan son of a whore and a

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Scotsman dropped in the middle of a

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Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence

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Impoverished in squalor

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Grow up to be a hero and a scholar

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The ten-dollar founding father without a father

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Got a lot farther by working a lot harder

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By being a lot smarter


By being a self-starter
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By fourteen they placed him in charge of a trading charter



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And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted

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Away across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up

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Inside he was longing for something to be a part of

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The brother was ready to beg steal borrow or barter



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Then a hurricane came and devastation reigned

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Our man saw his future drip dripping down the drain

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Put a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain

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And he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain



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Well the word got around they said This kid is insane man

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Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland

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Get your education don't forget from whence you came

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And the world is gonna know your name What's your name man



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Alexander Hamilton

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My name is Alexander Hamilton

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And there's a million things I haven't done

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But just you wait just you wait



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When he was ten his father split full of it debt-ridden

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Two years later see Alex and his mother bed-ridden half-dead


Sittin' in their own sick the scent thick


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And Alex got better but his mother went quick


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Moved in with a cousin the cousin committed suicide

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Left him with nothin' but ruined pride something new inside

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A voice saying Alex you gotta fend for yourself



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He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf



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There would have been nothing left to do


For someone less astute he woulda been
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Dead or destitute without a sense of restitution

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Started workin' clerkin' for his late mother's landlord

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Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford

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Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on

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Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on

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The bow of a ship headed for a new land

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In New York you can be a new man


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In New York you can be a new man

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In New York you can be a new man

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In New York you can be a new man



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In New York



Just you wait


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Alexander Hamilton

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We are waiting in the wings for you

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You could never back down

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You never learned to take your time

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Oh Alexander Hamilton

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When America sings for you

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Will they know what you overcame

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Will they know you rewrote the game

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The world will never be the same oh



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The ship is in the harbor now


See if you can spot him
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Another immigrant

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Comin' up from the bottom

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His enemies destroyed his rep


America forgot him

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We fought with him

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Me I died for him

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Me I trusted him

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Me I loved him



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And me I'm the damn fool that shot him


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There's a million things I haven't done

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But just you wait




What's your name man


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Alexander Hamilton


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