Alexander Hamilton - The New Broadway Players

[00:03.18]How does a bastard orphan son of a w***e
[00:07.2]And a Scotsman
[00:08.61]Dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean
[00:15.84]Grow up to be a hero and a scholar
[00:18.78]The 10 dollar
[00:20.19]Founding father without a father
[00:22.26]Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
[00:25.5]By being a lot smarter
[00:27.45]By being a self starter
[00:29.28]By fourteen they placed him in charge of a trading charter
[00:33.72]And everyday while slaves were being slaughtered
[00:36.63]And carted away
[00:37.83]Across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up
[00:41.22]Inside he was longing for something to be a part of
[00:44.67]The brother was ready to beg steal borrow or barter
[00:48.72]Then a hurricane came devastation reigned
[00:52.44]A man saw his future drip dripping down the drain
[00:56.31]Put a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain
[01:00.03]And he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain
[01:03.54]And the word got around they said
[01:05.91]This kid is insane man
[01:07.71]Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
[01:11.58]Get your education don't forget from whence you came
[01:15.0]And the world's gonna know your name what's your name man
[01:19.17]Alexander Hamilton
[01:22.08]My name is Alexander Hamilton
[01:26.19]There's a million thing I haven't done
[01:29.37]But just you wait just you wait
[01:33.66]When he was 10 his father split
[01:35.759995]Full of it debt ridden
[01:37.53]Two years later see Alex and his mother bed ridden
[01:41.28]Half dead sitting in their own sick the scent thick
[01:45.36]And Alex got better but his mother went quick
[01:49.380005]Moved in with a cousin
[01:50.82]The cousin committed suicide
[01:53.07]Left him with nothing but ruined pride
[01:55.32]Something new inside
[01:56.67]A voice saying Alex you gotta fend for yourself
[01:59.82]He started retreating and reading every treatise on the shelf
[02:03.78]There woulda been nothing left to do
[02:05.58]For someone less astute
[02:06.96]He woulda been dead and destitute
[02:08.63]Without a cent of restitution
[02:10.59]Started working clerking for his late mother's landlord
[02:14.52]Trading sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford
[02:18.06]Scamming for every book he can get his hands on
[02:21.6]Planning for the future see him now as he stands on
[02:25.02]The bow of a ship headed for a new land
[02:28.62]In New York you can be a new man
[02:31.83]In New York you can be a new man
[02:34.29001]Just you wait
[02:35.73]In New York you can be a new man
[02:37.92]Just you wait
[02:39.12]In New York you can be a new man
[02:42.54001]Just you wait
[02:43.68]In New York
[02:44.64]Just you wait
[02:45.75]Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton
[02:49.47]We are waiting in the wings for you
[02:51.72]Waiting in the wings for you
[02:53.19]You could never back down
[02:54.78]You never learned to take you time
[02:59.61]Oh Alexander Hamilton
[03:03.6]When America sings for you
[03:07.17]Will they know what you overcame
[03:10.38]Will they know you rewrote the game
[03:13.77]The world will never be the same oh
[03:21.48]The ship is in the harbor now
[03:23.49]See if you can spot him
[03:24.75]Just you wait
[03:25.41]Another immigrant Comin' up from the bottom
[03:28.08]Just you wait
[03:28.65]His enemies destroyed his rep America forgot him
[03:32.67]We fought with him
[03:34.17]Me I died for him
[03:35.82]Me I trusted him
[03:37.56]Me I loved him
[03:38.97]And me I'm the d**n fool that shot him
[03:43.44]There's a million things I haven't done
[03:45.95999]But just you wait
[03:49.56]What's your name man
[03:51.18]Alexander Hamilton