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