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How does a bastard orphan son of a whore and a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a

Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished in squalor grow up to be a hero and a scholar

The ten-dollar founding father without a father got a lot farther by working a lot harder

By being a lot smarter

By being a self-starter

By fourteen they placed him in charge of a trading charter

And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted

Away across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up

Inside he was longing for something to be a part of the brother was ready to beg steal, borrow or barter

Then a hurricane came and devastation reigned

Our man saw his future drip dripping down the drain

Put a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain

And he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain

Well the word got around

They said this kid is insane, man

Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland

Get your education don't forget from whence you came

And the world is gonna know your name

What's your name, man?

Alexander Hamilton

My name is

Alexander Hamilton

And there's a million things

I haven't done

But just you wait just you wait

When he was ten his father split full of it debt-ridden

Two years later see Alex and his mother bed-ridden

Half-dead sittin' in their own sick the scent thick

And Alex got better but his mother went quick

Moved in with a cousin the cousin committed suicide

Left him with nothin' but ruined pride

Something new inside

A voice saying

Alex you gotta fend for yourself

Alex you gotta fend for yourself

He started retreatin' and readin'

Every treatise on the shelf

There would have been nothin' left to do

For someone less astute he would have been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution

Started workin' clerkin' for his late mother's landlord

Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford

Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on

Plannin' for the future

See him now as he stands on

The bow of a ship headed for a new land

In New York you can be a new man

In New York you can be a new man

Just you wait

In New York you can

Just you wait be a new man

In New York you can be a new man

In New York

Just you wait

Alexander Hamilton

We are waiting in the wings for you

You could never back down

You never learned to take your time

Oh, Alexander Hamilton

When America sings for you

Will they know what you overcame?

Will they know you rewrote the game?

The world will never be the same, oh oh oh

The ship is in the harbor now see if you can spot him

Just you wait

Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom

Just you wait

His enemies destroyed his rep

America forgot him

We fought with him

Me? I died for him

Me? I trusted him

And me?

Me? I loved him

I'm the damn fool that shot him

There's a million things

I haven't done but just you wait

What's your name, man?

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton