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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
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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 -Just you wait...-
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In New York you can be a new man -Just you wait...-
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In New York you can be a new man -Just you wait...-
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In New York you can be a new man -Just you wait...-
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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
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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
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What's your name man
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Alexander Hamilton