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Alexander Hamilton
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore
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And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished,
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In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
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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
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And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away
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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
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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
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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
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What's your name, man?
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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
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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
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Half-dead 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 suicide
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Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside voice saying
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Alex, you gotta fend for yourself
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He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf
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There would have been nothin' left to do for someone less astute
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He woulda been dead or destitute without a cent 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 the bow of a ship headed for a new land
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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
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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
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In New York you can be a new man
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Just you wait
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Alexander Hamilton
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We are 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
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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 your game?
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The world will never be the same, oh
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The ship is in the harbor now
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See if you can spot him
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Another immigrant 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
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Me, I loved him
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And me, I'm the damn fool that shot him
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There's a million things I haven't done
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But just you wait
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What's your name, man?
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Alexander Hamilton
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