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my shot

  1. Ooh,
  2. Who are you?
  3. MULLIGAN
  4. Ooh,
  5. Who are you?
  6. LAFAYETTE
  7. Ooh,
  8. Who are you?
  9. MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS
  10. Ooh, who is this kid? What’s he gonna do?
  11. HAMILTON
  12. I am not throwing away my shot!
  13. I am not throwing away my shot!
  14. Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
  15. I’m young, scrappy and hungry,
  16. and I’m not throwing away my shot!
  17. I’m ‘a get a scholarship to King’s College.
  18. I prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish.
  19. The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.
  20. I gotta holler just to be heard.
  21. With every word, I drop knowledge!
  22. I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
  23. tryin’ to reach my goal. My power of speech: unimpeachable.
  24. Only nineteen but my mind is older.
  25. These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder
  26. ev’ry burden, ev’ry disadvantage
  27. I have learned to manage, I don’t have a gun to brandish,
  28. I walk these streets famished.
  29. The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.
  30. But damn, it’s getting dark, so let me spell out the name,
  31. I am the—
  32. HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS
  33. A l e x a n d
  34. e r—we are—meant to be…
  35. HAMILTON
  36. A colony that runs independently.
  37. Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin’ on us endlessly.
  38. Essentially, they tax us relentlessly,
  39. then King George turns around, runs a spending spree.
  40. He ain’t ever gonna set his descendants free,
  41. so there will be a revolution in this century.
  42. Enter me!
  43. LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS
  44. (He says in parentheses)
  45. HAMILTON
  46. Don’t be shocked when your hist’ry book mentions me.
  47. I will lay down my life if it sets us free.
  48. Eventually, you’ll see my ascendancy,
  49. HAMILTON
  50. And I am not throwing away my shot.
  51. I am not throwing away my shot.
  52. Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
  53. I’m young, scrappy and hungry
  54. and I’m not throwing away my shot.
  55. LAURENS
  56. My shot!
  57. My shot!
  58. And I’m not throwing away my shot.
  59. HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE
  60. I am not throwing away my shot.
  61. I am not throwing away my shot.
  62. Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
  63. I’m young, scrappy and hungry
  64. and I’m not throwing away my shot.
  65. It’s time to take a shot!
  66. LAFAYETTE
  67. I dream of life without a monarchy.
  68. The unrest in France will lead to ‘onarchy?
  69. ‘Onarchy? How you say, how you say, ‘anarchy?’
  70. When I fight, I make the other side panicky.
  71. With my—
  72. HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN
  73. Shot!
  74. MULLIGAN
  75. Yo, I’m a tailor’s apprentice,
  76. and I got y’all knuckleheads in loco parentis.
  77. I’m joining the rebellion cuz I know it’s my chance
  78. to socially advance, instead of sewin’ some pants!
  79. I’m gonna take a—
  80. HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN
  81. Shot!
  82. LAURENS
  83. But we’ll never be truly free
  84. until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me,
  85. you and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in
  86. on a stallion with the first black battalion
  87. have another—
  88. HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN
  89. Shot!
  90. BURR
  91. Geniuses, lower your voices.
  92. You keep out of trouble and you double your choices.
  93. I’m with you, but the situation is fraught.
  94. You’ve got to be carefully taught:
  95. If you talk, you’re gonna get shot!
  96. HAMILTON
  97. Burr, check what we got.
  98. Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot,
  99. I think your pants look hot,
  100. Laurens, I like you a lot.
  101. Let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin’ the pot...
  102. What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot,
  103. poppin’ a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not,
  104. a bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?
  105. Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is!
  106. Oh, am I talkin’ too loud?
  107. Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth.
  108. I never had a group of friends before,
  109. I promise that I’ll make y’all proud.
  110. LAURENS
  111. Let’s get this guy in front of a crowd.
  112. HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE
  113. I am not throwing away my shot.
  114. I am not throwing away my shot.
  115. Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
  116. I’m young, scrappy and hungry
  117. and I’m not throwing away my shot.
  118. I am not throwing away my shot.
  119. I am not throwing away my shot.
  120. Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
  121. I’m young, scrappy and hungry
  122. and I’m not throwing away my shot.
  123. LAURENS
  124. Ev’rybody sing:
  125. Whoa, whoa, whoa
  126. Hey!
  127. Whoa!
  128. Wooh!!
  129. Whoa!
  130. Ay, let ‘em hear ya!
  131. Let’s go!
  132. I said shout it to the rooftops!
  133. Said, to the rooftops!
  134. Come on!
  135. Come on, let’s go!
  136. HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN
  137. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
  138. Whoa!
  139. Whoa!
  140. Yea!
  141. COMPANY
  142. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
  143. Whoa!
  144. Whoa!
  145. Yea!
  146. LAURENS
  147. Rise up!
  148. When you’re living on your knees, you rise up.
  149. Tell your brother that he’s gotta rise up.
  150. Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up.
  151. LAURENS AND ENSEMBLE
  152. When are these colonies gonna rise up?
  153. When are these colonies gonna rise up?
  154. When are these colonies gonna rise up?
  155. When are these colonies gonna rise up?
  156. Rise up!
  157. COMPANY
  158. Whoa! Whoa!
  159. Whoa!
  160. Whoa!
  161. Whoa!
  162. Rise up!
  163. HAMILTON
  164. I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
  165. When’s it gonna get me?
  166. In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
  167. If I see it comin’, do I run or do I let it be?
  168. Is it like a beat without a melody?
  169. See, I never thought I’d live past twenty.
  170. Where I come from some get half as many.
  171. Ask anybody why we livin’ fast and we laugh, reach for a flask,
  172. we have to make this moment last, that’s plenty.
  173. Scratch that,
  174. this is not a moment, it’s the movement
  175. where all the hungriest brothers with
  176. something to prove went?
  177. Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand,
  178. we roll like Moses, claimin’ our promised land.
  179. And? If we win our independence?
  180. ‘Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
  181. Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
  182. cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
  183. I know the action in the street is excitin’,
  184. but Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’
  185. I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.
  186. We need to handle our financial situation.
  187. Are we a nation of states? What’s the state of our nation?
  188. I’m past patiently waitin’. I’m passionately
  189. smashin’ every expectation,
  190. every action’s an act of creation!
  191. I’m laughin’ in the face of casualties and sorrow,
  192. for the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow,
  193. HAMILTON AND COMPANY
  194. And I am not throwing away my shot.
  195. I am not throwing away my shot.
  196. Hey yo, I’m just like my country,
  197. I’m young, scrappy and hungry
  198. and I’m not throwing away my shot.
  199. HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/
  200. MULLIGAN
  201. We’re gonna rise up! Time to take a shot!
  202. We’re gonna rise up! Time to take a shot!
  203. We’re gonna
  204. HAMILTON
  205. Time to take a shot!
  206. ENSEMBLE
  207. Not throwing away my shot.
  208. Not throwing away my shot.
  209. We’re gonna
  210. rise up!
  211. Rise up
  212. HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS/
  213. MULLIGAN
  214. Time to take a shot!
  215. Take a shot!
  216. Shot!
  217. Shot!
  218. A yo it’s
  219. time to take a shot!
  220. Time to take a shot!
  221. And I am—
  222. Rise up!
  223. Rise up!
  224. Rise up!
  225. Rise up!
  226. Ri— ri— ri—
  227. Time to take a shot!
  228. Time to take a shot!
  229. And I am—
  230. HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS
  231. Not throwin’ away my—
  232. COMPANY
  233. Not throwin’ away my shot!

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