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Hamilton

  1. BURR
  2. How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore
  3. and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a
  4. forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence,
  5. impoverished, in squalor,
  6. grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
  7. LAURENS
  8. The ten dollar founding father without a father
  9. got a lot farther by working a lot harder,
  10. by being a lot smarter,
  11. by being a self starter,
  12. by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a
  13. trading charter.
  14. JEFFERSON
  15. And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted
  16. away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up.
  17. Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of,
  18. the brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow or barter.
  19. MADISON
  20. Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned,
  21. our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain,
  22. put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain,
  23. and he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain.
  24. BURR
  25. Well, the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man”
  26. took up a collection just to send him to the mainland.
  27. “Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and
  28. the world is gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?”
  29. HAMILTON
  30. Alexander Hamilton.
  31. My name is Alexander Hamilton.
  32. And there’s a million things I haven’t done,
  33. but just you wait, just you wait...
  34. ELIZA
  35. When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt ridden,
  36. two years later, see Alex and his mother bed ridden,
  37. half dead sittin in their own sick, the scent thick,
  38. COMPANY
  39. And Alex got better but his mother went quick.
  40. WASHINGTON
  41. Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide.
  42. Left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, something new inside,
  43. a voice saying,
  44. WASHINGTON
  45. “You gotta fend for yourself.”
  46. COMPANY
  47. “Alex, you gotta fend for yourself.”
  48. WASHINGTON
  49. he started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf.
  50. BURR
  51. There would have been nothin’ left to do
  52. for someone less astute,
  53. he woulda been dead or destitute
  54. without a cent of restitution,
  55. started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s
  56. landlord,
  57. tradin’ sugar cane and rum and all the things he
  58. can’t afford
  59. scammin’ for every book he can get his hands on,
  60. plannin’ for the future see him now as he stands on
  61. the bow of a ship headed for a new land,
  62. In New York you can be a new man.
  63. COMPANY
  64. Scammin’
  65. Plannin’
  66. Oooh...
  67. COMPANY
  68. In New York you can
  69. be a new man—
  70. In New York you can
  71. be a new man—
  72. HAMILTON
  73. Just you wait!
  74. Just you wait!
  75. COMPANY
  76. In New York you can be a new man—
  77. WOMEN
  78. In New York
  79. MEN
  80. New York—
  81. HAMILTON
  82. Just you wait!
  83. COMPANY
  84. Alexander Hamilton
  85. We are waiting in the wings for you
  86. You could never back down,
  87. you never learned to take your time!
  88. Oh, Alexander Hamilton
  89. When America sings for you
  90. Will they know what you overcame?
  91. Will they know you rewrote the game?
  92. The world will never be the same, oh.
  93. COMPANY
  94. Alexander Hamilton
  95. Waiting in the wings for you
  96. You never learned to take your time!
  97. Oh, Alexander Hamilton
  98. Alexander Hamilton…
  99. America sings for you
  100. Will they know what you overcame?
  101. Will they know you rewrote the game?
  102. The world will never be the same, oh.
  103. BURR
  104. The ship is in the harbor now,
  105. see if you can spot him.
  106. Another immigrant,
  107. comin’ up from the bottom.
  108. His enemies destroyed his rep,
  109. America forgot him
  110. MEN
  111. Just you wait
  112. COMPANY
  113. Just you wait
  114. MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE
  115. We fought with him.
  116. LAURENS
  117. Me? I died for him.
  118. WASHINGTON
  119. Me? I trusted him.
  120. ELIZA/ANGELICA/MARIA
  121. Me? I loved him.
  122. BURR
  123. And me? I’m the damn fool that shot him.
  124. COMPANY
  125. There’s a million things I haven’t done,
  126. but just you wait!
  127. BURR
  128. What’s your name, man?
  129. COMPANY
  130. Alexander Hamilton!

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