[Burr]



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?



[Laurens]



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



[Jefferson]



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



[Madison]



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



[Burr]



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?”



[Hamilton]



Alexander Hamilton



My name is Alexander Hamilton



And there's a million things I haven't done



But just you wait, just you wait...



[Eliza]



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



[Company]



And Alex got better but his mother went quick



[Washington]



Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide



Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside



A voice saying



[Washington]



“You gotta fend for yourself.”[Company]



“Alex, you gotta fend for yourself.”



[Washington]



He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf



[Burr]



There would have been nothin' left to do



For someone less astute



He woulda 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



[Company]



Scammin'



Plannin'



Oooh...



[Company]



In New York you can



Be a new man—



In New York you can



Be a new man—



[Hamilton]



Just you wait!



Just you wait!



[Company]



In New York you can be a new man—



[Women]



In New York—



[Men]



New York—



[Hamilton]



Just you wait!



[Company]



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



[Burr]



The ship is in the harbor now



See if you can spot him



Another immigrant



Comin' up from the bottom



His enemies destroyed his rep



America forgot him[Company]



Alexander Hamilton



Waiting in the wings for you



You never learned to take your time!



Oh, Alexander Hamilton



Alexander Hamilton



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



[Men]



Just you wait



[Company]



Just you wait



[Mulligan/Madison & lafayette/Jefferson]



We fought with him



[Laurens/Philip]



Me? I died for him



[Washington]



Me? I trusted him



[Eliza & angelica & peggy/Maria]



Me? I loved him



[Burr]



And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him



[Company]



There's a million things I haven't done



But just you wait!



[Burr]



What's your name, man?



[Company]



Alexander Hamilton!