Alexander Hamilton - Lin-Manuel Miranda,Leslie Odom, Jr.,Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton,Christopher Jackson

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[00:03.79]How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
[00:07.93]Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a
[00:10.76]Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence
[00:14.30]Impoverished, in squalor
[00:16.46]Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
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[00:19.25]The ten-dollar founding father without a father
[00:22.53]Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
[00:25.90]By being a lot smarter
[00:27.73]By being a self-starter
[00:29.55]By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a
[00:32.83]Trading charter
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[00:34.60]And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted
[00:37.58]Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
[00:41.46]Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of
[00:44.98]The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter
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[00:49.03]Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
[00:52.32]Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
[00:56.37]Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
[00:59.97]And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
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[01:03.86]Well, the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man”
[01:07.65]Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
[01:11.39]“Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and
[01:15.22]The world is gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?”
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[01:18.90]Alexander Hamilton
[01:22.66]My name is Alexander Hamilton
[01:26.44]And there’s a million things I haven’t done
[01:29.48]But just you wait, just you wait...
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[01:34.38]When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
[01:37.99]Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden
[01:41.30]Half-dead sittin in their own sick, the scent thick
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[01:45.12]And Alex got better but his mother went quick
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[01:49.46]Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
[01:52.80]Left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, something new inside
[01:56.43]A voice saying
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[01:57.48]“You gotta fend for yourself.”(“Alex, you gotta fend for yourself.”)
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[02:00.20]He started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf
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[02:03.92]There would have been nothin’ left to do
[02:05.52]For someone less astute
[02:06.87]He woulda been dead or destitute
[02:08.49]Without a cent of restitution
[02:10.26]Started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s landlord
[02:14.24]Tradin’ sugar cane and rum and all the things he can’t afford
[02:17.69]Scammin’ for every book he can get his hands on
[02:21.22]Plannin’ for the future see him now as he stands on
[02:24.72]The bow of a ship headed for a new land
[02:28.30]In New York you can be a new man
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[02:31.65]In New York you can
[02:34.21]Be a new man— (Just you wait!)
[02:34.99]In New York you can
[02:37.05]Be a new man— (Just you wait!)
[02:38.72]In New York you can be a new man—
[02:42.30]In New York—
[02:43.52]New York—
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[02:44.94]Just you wait!
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[02:46.36]Alexander Hamilton(Alexander Hamilton)
[02:49.33]We are waiting in the wings for you(Waiting in the wings for you)
[02:52.91]You could never back down
[02:54.63]You never learned to take your time!
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[02:59.89]Oh, Alexander Hamilton
[03:03.48]When America sings for you
[03:06.97]Will they know what you overcame?
[03:10.38]Will they know you rewrote the game?
[03:13.68]The world will never be the same, oh
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[03:21.21]The ship is in the harbor now
[03:22.93]See if you can spot him
[03:24.13](Just you wait)
[03:24.85]Another immigrant
[03:26.30]Comin’ up from the bottom
[03:27.58](Just you wait)
[03:28.23]His enemies destroyed his rep
[03:29.81]America forgot him
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[03:32.43]We fought with him
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[03:33.69]Me? I died for him
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[03:35.36]Me? I trusted him
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[03:37.01]Me? I loved him
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[03:38.74]And me? I’m the damn fool that shot him
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[03:43.08]There’s a million things I haven’t done
[03:45.69]But just you wait!
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[03:49.74]What’s your name, man?
[03:51.27]Alexander Hamilton!