HAMILTON:
GmGmAm
I am not throwing away my shot
BbBb
I am not throwing away my shot
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
DmEb
And I'm not throwing away my shot
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Accuracy Rating: - Votes: -
DGm
I'mma get scholarship to King's College
GmAmBb
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish
BbBdimCm
The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish
CmDmEb
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
AmBbBdimCm
Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable
Dm
Only nineteen, but my mind is older
EbD
These New York City streets getting colder, I shoulder
Gm
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage
AmBb
I have learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish
N/A
I walk these streets famished
CmDm
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
EbD
But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out my name
I am the—
HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN, LAURENS:
GmAmA-L, E-X, A-N, DBbE-R—we are—meant to be
HAMILTON:
CmDmA colony that runs independently
D#D
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly
Gm
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
AmBb
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
BdimCmDm
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free
EbD
So there will be a revolution in this century
N/A
ENTER ME!
LAURENS, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN:
Gm
(He says in parentheses)
HAMILTON:
AmBb
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me
BdimCmDm
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
EbD
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy
HAMILTON and (LAURENS):
GmGmAm
And I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
BbBb
I am not throwing away my shot (my shot)
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
HAMILTON & LAURENS:
DmEbD
And I'm not throwing away my shot
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
GmGmAm
I am not throwing away my shot
BbBb
I am not throwing away my shot
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
DmEbD
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Gm
It's time to take a shot!
LAFAYETTE:
GmGmAm
I dream of life without the monarchy
BbBbBdim
The unrest in France will lead to "onarchy"
CmCmDmD#
"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:
GmAm
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
BbBdim
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
CmDm
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance
EbD
To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants
I'm gonna take a
HAMILTON, MULLIGAN, LAURENS, LAFAYETTE:
Gm
Shot!
LAURENS:
GmAm
Eh, but we'll never be truly free
BbBdim
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
CmDmEb
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:
GmGmAm
Geniuses, lower your voices
BbBbBdim
You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices
CmCmDm
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:
GmAm
Burr, check what we got
BbBdim
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
Cm
I think your pants look hot
Dm
Laurens, I like you a lot
EbD
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
GmAm
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
Bb
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
BdimCmDmEbA 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:
GmAm
I am not throwing away my shot
Bb
I am not throwing away my shot
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
EbD
And I'm not throwing away my shot
GmAm
I am not throwing away my shot
Bb
I am not throwing away my shot
BdimCm
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
EbD
And I'm not throwing away my shot
LAURENS and (HAMILTON, LAFAYETTE, MULLIGAN):
:
Everybody sing
GmBb
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):
GmAmBb
Let's go! (Woah-woah, wo-oh-oh)
I said, shout it to the rooftops
BdimCm
(Wo-oh-oh)
Said to the rooftops
DmEb
(Wo-oh-oh)
Now come on
D
(Yeah)
Now come on, let's go
LAURENS:
Gm
Rise up
AmBb
When you're living on your knees, you rise up
BdimCm
Tell your brother that he's got to rise up
DmD#
Tell your sister that she's got to rise up
LAURENS & ENSEMBLE and (COMPANY):
DGm
When are these colonies gonna rise up
(Whoa, woah)
AmBb
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
BdimCm
When are these colonies gonna rise up (Woah)
DmD#
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?
EbD
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
EbD
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty
Gm
Scratch that
AmBb
This is not a moment, it's the movement
Bdim
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went
CmDm
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
EbD
We roll like Moses, claimin' our Promised Land
GmAm
And? If we win our independence?
BbBdim
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
CmDm
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
EbD
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
EbD
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?
GmGmAmBb
I'm past patiently waitin'! I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
BbBdim
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:
DGmAm
And I am not throwin' away my shot
Bb
I am not throwin' away my shot
BdimCm
Hey, yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
EbD
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)
EbA-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:
DDDDDG5
Not throwing away my shot! the above is the button at the very end:
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