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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1781125,"song":"Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton","artist":"Misc Musicals","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1781125-hamilton-alexander-hamilton-chords-by-misc-musicals/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1781125?type=chord","rating":4.83157,"votes":547,"content":"Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton (written by Lin-Manuel Miranda)\r\n\r\n\r\n[BURR]\r\n\r\n[tab]            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nHow does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#[/ch]\r\nScotsman, dropped in the middle of a[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nForgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nImpoverished, in squalor[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Bbdim[/ch]\r\nGrow up to be a hero and a scholar?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[LAURENS]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe ten-dollar founding father without a father[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nGot a lot farther by working a lot harder[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy being a lot smarter[/tab]\r\n\r\nBy being a self-starter\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]Bbdim[/ch]\r\nBy fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[JEFFERSON]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nAway across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nInside he was longing for something to be a part of[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]Bbdim[/ch]\r\nThe brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[MADISON]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThen a hurricane came, and devastation reigned[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nOur man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPut a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]F#sus4[/ch]          [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nAnd he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[BURR]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWell the word got around, they said, \"This kid is insane, man\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#[/ch]\r\nTook up a collection just to send him to the mainland[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]Bbdim[/ch]\r\nand the world is gonna know your name.\" What's your name, man?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[HAMILTON]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAlexander Hamilton[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nMy name is Alexander Hamilton[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd there's a million things I haven't done[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nBut just you wait, just you wait...[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ELIZA]\r\n\r\n[tab]            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWhen he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F#[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTwo years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden half-dead[/tab]\r\n\r\nSittin' in their own sick, the scent thick\r\n\r\n\r\n[COMPANY]\r\n\r\nN.C.\r\nAnd Alex got better but his mother went quick\r\n\r\n\r\n[WASHINGTON]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nMoved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#[/ch]\r\nLeft him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA voice saying[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[WASHINGTON]                     //    [COMPANY]\r\n\r\n\"You gotta fend for yourself\"    //    \"Alex, you gotta fend for yourself\"\r\n\r\n\r\n[WASHINGTON]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]Bbdim[/ch]\r\nHe started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[BURR]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThere would have been nothing left to do[/tab]\r\n\r\nFor someone less astute, he woulda been\r\n[tab][ch]F#[/ch]\r\nDead or destitute without a sense of restitution[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nStarted workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]Bbdim[/ch]\r\nTradin' sugarcane and rum and all the things he can't afford[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nScammin' for every book he can get his hands on[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#[/ch]\r\nPlannin' for the future see him now as he stands on[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe bow of a ship headed for a new land[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Bbdim[/ch]\r\nIn New York you can be a new man[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[COMPANY]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nIn New York you can   //  (HAMILTON)[/tab]\r\n\r\nBe a new man          //  Just you wait\r\n[tab]   [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nIn New York you can   // (HAMILTON)[/tab]\r\n\r\nBe a new man          //  Just you wait\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em9[/ch]\r\nIn New York you can[/tab]\r\n\r\nBe a new man\r\n\r\n\r\n[WOMEN]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nIn New York--[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[MEN]\r\n\r\nNew York\r\n\r\n\r\n[HAMILTON]\r\n\r\nJust you wait!\r\n\r\n\r\n[COMPANY]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAlexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nWe are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou could never back down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nYou never learned to take your time[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nWhen America sings for you[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWill they know what you overcame?[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWill they know you rewrote the game?[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Bm/F#[/ch]      [ch]Em/G[/ch]    [ch]D/A[/ch]      [ch]F#7/A#[/ch]\r\nThe world will never be the same, oh[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[BURR]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe ship is in the harbor now  //  (COMPANY)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm/C#[/ch]\r\nSee if you can spot him        //  Just you wait[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Bm/D[/ch]\r\nAnother immigrant[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nComin' up from the bottom      //  Just you wait[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em/G[/ch]\r\nHis enemies destroyed his rep[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em/C#[/ch]\r\nAmerica forgot him[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F#sus4[/ch]   [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nWe fought with him[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[LAURENS/PHILLIP]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F#sus4[/ch]      [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nMe? I died for him[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[WASHINGTON]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm9/F#[/ch]       [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nMe? I trusted him[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em6/F#[/ch]       [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nMe? I loved him[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[BURR]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nAnd me? I'm the damn fool that shot him[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[COMPANY]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]Em/G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere's a million things I haven't done[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Em6/F#[/ch]\r\nBut just you wait![/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[BURR]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nWhat's your name, man?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[COMPANY]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAlexander Hamilton![/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]Bm[/ch]","plain_text":"Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton (written by Lin-Manuel Miranda)\n\n\n[BURR]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[LAURENS]\n\n\n\n\n\nBy being a self-starter\n\n\n\n[JEFFERSON]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[MADISON]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[BURR]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[HAMILTON]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[ELIZA]\n\n\n\n\nSittin' in their own sick, the scent thick\n\n\n[COMPANY]\n\nN.C.\nAnd Alex got better but his mother went quick\n\n\n[WASHINGTON]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[WASHINGTON]                     //    [COMPANY]\n\n\"You gotta fend for yourself\"    //    \"Alex, you gotta fend for yourself\"\n\n\n[WASHINGTON]\n\n\n\n\n[BURR]\n\n\n\nFor someone less astute, he woulda been\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[COMPANY]\n\n\n\nBe a new man          //  Just you wait\n\n\nBe a new man          //  Just you wait\n\n\nBe a new man\n\n\n[WOMEN]\n\n\n\n\n[MEN]\n\nNew York\n\n\n[HAMILTON]\n\nJust you wait!\n\n\n[COMPANY]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[BURR]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON]\n\n\n\n\n[LAURENS/PHILLIP]\n\n\n\n\n[WASHINGTON]\n\n\n\n\n[ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA]\n\n\n\n\n[BURR]\n\n\n\n\n[COMPANY]\n\n\n\n\n\n[BURR]\n\n\n\n\n[COMPANY]\n\n\n\nBm","chords":["Bm","F#","G","D","Bbdim","F#sus4","C","A","G7","Em9","Em","Bm/F#","Em/G","D/A","F#7/A#","Bm/C#","Bm/D","Em/C#","Bm9/F#","Em6/F#","F#7"],"chord_diagrams":{"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}