Alexander Hamilton Tab uke di Hamilton (Accordi Baritono)

(BURR)
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How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a 
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Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a 
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Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence
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Impoverished, in squalor
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Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
 
 
(LAURENS)
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The ten-dollar founding father without a father
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Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
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By being a lot smarter
 
By being a self-starter
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By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
 
 
(JEFFERSON)
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And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted 
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Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
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Inside he was longing for something to be a part of
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The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter
 
 
(MADISON)
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Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
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Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
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Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
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And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
 
 
(BURR)
          Am
Well the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man"
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Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
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"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came
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and the world is gonna know your name. What's your name, man?"
 
 
(HAMILTON)
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Alexander Hamilton
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My name is Alexander Hamilton
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And there's a million things I haven't done
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But just you wait, just you wait...
 
 
(ELIZA)
            Am
When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
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Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden half-dead
 
Sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick
 
 
(COMPANY)
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And Alex got better but his mother went quick
 
 
(WASHINGTON)
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Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
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Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside
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A voice saying
 
 
(WASHINGTON)                     //    (COMPANY)
"You gotta fend for yourself"    //    "Alex, you gotta fend for yourself"
 
(WASHINGTON)
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He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf
 
 
(BURR)
      Am
There would have been nothing left to do
 
For someone less astute, he woulda been
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Dead or destitute without a sense of restitution
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Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
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Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford
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Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on
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Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on
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The bow of a ship headed for a new land
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In New York you can be a new man
 
 
(COMPANY)
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In New York you can   //  (HAMILTON)
 
Be a new man          //  Just you wait
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In New York you can   // (HAMILTON)
 
Be a new man          //  Just you wait
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In New York you can
 
Be a new man
 
 
(WOMEN)
   E
In New York--
 
(MEN)
New York
 
(HAMILTON)
Just you wait!
 
(COMPANY)
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Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
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We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)
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You could never back down
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You never learned to take your time
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Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
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When America sings for you
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Will they know what you overcame?
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Will they know you rewrote the game?
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The world will never be the same, oh
 
 
(BURR)
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The ship is in the harbor now  //  (COMPANY)
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See if you can spot him        //  Just you wait
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Another immigrant 
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Comin' up from the bottom      //  Just you wait
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His enemies destroyed his rep
 
America forgot him
 
 
(MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON)
Esus4   E
We fought with him
 
(LAURENS/PHILLIP)
Esus4      E
Me? I died for him
 
(WASHINGTON)
Dsus2  Asus/D
Me? I trusted him
 
(ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA)
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Me? I loved him
 
(BURR)
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And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him
 
(COMPANY)
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There's a million things I haven't done
             Esus4
But just you wait!
 
(BURR)
 
What's your name, man?
 
(COMPANY)
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Alexander Hamilton!
 
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