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[HAMILTON]
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I am not throwing away my shot!
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I am not throwing away my shot!
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Hey yo, I'm just like my country
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I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwing away my shot!
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I'm 'a get a scholarship to King's College
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I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish
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The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish
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I gotta holler just to be heard
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With every word, I drop knowledge!
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I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
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Tryin' to reach my goal my power of speech: unimpeachable
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Only nineteen but my mind is older
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These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder
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Every burden, every disadvantage
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I have learned to manage, I don't have a gun to brandish
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I walk these streets famished
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The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
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But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out the name
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I am the "”
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A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R
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We are meant to be
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[HAMILTON]
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A colony that runs independently
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Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin' on us endlessly
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Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
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Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
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He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free
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So there will be a revolution in this century
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Enter me!
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He says in parentheses
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[HAMILTON]
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Don't be shocked when your hist'ry book mentions me
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I will lay down my life if it sets us free
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Eventually, you'll see my ascendancy
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And I am not throwing away my shot
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I am not throwing away my shot
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Hey yo, I'm just like my country
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I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwing away my shot
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[HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]
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I am not throwing away my shot
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I am not throwing away my shot
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Hey yo, I'm just like my country
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I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwing away my shot
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It's time to take a shot!
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[LAFAYETTE]
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I dream of life without a monarchy
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The unrest in France will lead to 'onarchy?
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'Onarchy? How you say, how you say, 'anarchy?'
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When I fight, I make the other side panicky
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With my "”
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Shot!
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[MULLIGAN]
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Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
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And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
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I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance
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To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants!
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I'm gonna take a "”
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Shot!
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But we'll never be truly free
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Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
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You and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in
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On a stallion with the first black battalion
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Have another "”
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Shot!
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[BURR]
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Geniuses, lower your voices
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You keep out of trouble and you double your choices
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I'm with you, but the situation is fraught
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You've got to be carefully taught
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If you talk, you're gonna get shot!
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[HAMILTON]
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Burr, check what we got
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Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot
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I think your pants look hot
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Laurens, I like you a lot
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Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
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What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
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Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
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A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?
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Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is!
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Oh, am I talkin' too loud?
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Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth
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I never had a group of friends before
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I promise that I'll make y'all proud
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[LAURENS]
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Let's get this guy in front of a crowd
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[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE]
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I am not throwing away my shot
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I am not throwing away my shot
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Hey yo, I'm just like my country
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I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwing away my shot
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I am not throwing away my shot
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I am not throwing away my shot
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Hey yo, I'm just like my country
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I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwing away my shot
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[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE]
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Everybody sing
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Whoa, whoa, whoa
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Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa
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Ay, let 'em hear ya
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Let's go
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Whoa, whoa, whoa I said shout it to the rooftops
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Whoa, whoa, whoa said, to the rooftops
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Whoa, whoa, whoa come on
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Come on, let's go
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[LAURENS]
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Rise up
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When you're living on your knees, you rise up
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Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up
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Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
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[LAURENS AND ENSEMBLE]
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When are these colonies gonna rise up?
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When are these colonies gonna rise up?
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When are these colonies gonna rise up?
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When are these colonies gonna rise up?
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Rise up!
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[HAMILTON]
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I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
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When's it gonna get me?
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In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
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If I see it comin', do I run or do I let it be?
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Is it like a beat without a melody?
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See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
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Where I come from some get half as many
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Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask
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We have to make this moment last, that's plenty
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Scratch that
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This is not a moment, it's the movement
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Where all the hungriest brothers with
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Something to prove went?
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Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
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We roll like Moses, claimin' our promised land
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And? If we win our independence?
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Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
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Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
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Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
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I know the action in the street is excitin'
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But Jesus, between all the bleedin' ' fightin'
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I've been readin' ' writin'
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We need to handle our financial situation
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Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?
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I'm past patiently waitin' I'm passionately
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Smashin' every expectation
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Every action's an act of creation!
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I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
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For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow
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[HAMILTON AND COMPANY]
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And I am not throwing away my shot
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I am not throwing away my shot
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Hey yo, I'm just like my country
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I'm young, scrappy and hungry
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And I'm not throwing away my shot
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We're gonna rise up (time to take a shot)
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We're gonna rise up (time to take a shot)
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We're gonna, rise up, rise up
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It's time to take a shot
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Rise up, rise up, it's time to take a shot
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Rise up, it's time to take a shot
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Rise up, take a shot, shot, shot
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It's time to take a shot, time to take a shot
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And I am not throwing away my shot
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Not throwing away my shot!
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