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ALEXANDER HAMILTON UKE TAB BY

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

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How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and
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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?

Bm
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
D F#
By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a tra

Bm
And every day while slaves were being slaughter
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Away across the waves, he struggled and kept hi
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Inside he was longing for something to be a par
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The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or

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Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
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Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the
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Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his
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And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to

Bm
Well the word got around, they said, "This kid
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Took up a collection just to send him to the ma
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"Get your education, don't forget from whence y
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and the world is gonna know your name. What's y

Bm
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...

Bm
When he was ten his father split, full of it, d
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Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ri

Sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick

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And Alex got better but his mother went quick

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Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed su
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Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, somethi
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A voice saying "Alex, you gotta fend for yourse

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He started retreatin' and readin' every treatis

Bm
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 restitutio
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Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's
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Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things h
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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 stand
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The bow of a ship headed for a new land
D F#
In New York you can be a new man

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In New York you can be a new man
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In New York you can be a new man
Bm
In New York you can be a new man

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In New York

Just you wait!

Bm
Alexander Hamilton
G7
We are waiting in the wings for you
Em
You could never back down
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You never learned to take your time
Bm
Oh, Alexander Hamilton
G7
When America sings for you
Em
Will they know what you overcame?
D Em
Will they know you rewrote the game?
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The world will never be the same, oh

Bm
The ship is in the harbor now

See if you can spot him

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Another immigrant
Em
Comin' up from the bottom
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His enemies destroyed his rep

America forgot him

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We fought with him
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Me? I died for him
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Me? I trusted him
Em
Me? I loved him

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

Em D
There's a million things I haven't done
F#
But just you wait!

What's your name, man?

Bm
Alexander Hamilton!

Bm

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