The Hamilton Polka

How does a bastard orphan, son of a whore

And a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot

In the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor

Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

The ten dollar founding father without a father

Got a lot farther by working a lot harder

By being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter by fourteen

They placed him in charge of the trading charter

Alexander Hamilton

My name is Alexander Hamilton

And there's a million things I haven't done

But just you wait, just you wait

Wait for it, wait for it

Wait for it, wait for it

I am the one thing in life I can control

Wait for it, wait for it

Wait for it, wait for it

I am inimitable, I am an original

And if there is a reason I'm still alive

When so many have died

Then I'm willing to

I'm willing to work, work

Angelica

Work, work

Eliza and Peggy

Look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now

History is happening in Manhattan, and we just happen to be

In the greatest city, in the greatest city in the world

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down

The world turned upside down

D-d-d-down, hey!

And you'll blow us all away

Oceans rise, empires fall

We have seen each other through it all

And when push comes to shove

I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love

No one else was in the room where it happened

The room where it happened, the room where it happened

No one else was in the room where it happened

The room where it happened, the room where it happened

No one really knows how the game is played

The art of the trade, how the sausage gets made

We just assume that it happens

But no one else is in the room where it happens

We are outgunned (What?)

Outmanned (What?)

Outnumbered, out-planned

We gotta make an all-out stand

And yo, I'm gonna need a right hand man, hey!

Hamilton

Sir, he knows what to do in a trench

Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean

Hamilton

Sir, you're gonna have to use him eventually

What's he gonna do on the bench? I mean

Hamilton

No one has more resilience or matches my practical, tactical brilliance

Hamilton

You wanna fight for your land back?

Hamilton

I need my right hand man back (Hamilton)

Uh, I'll get your right hand man back (Hamilton)

You know you gotta get your right hand man back (Hamilton)

I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter

But the sooner, the better to get your right hand man back

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Washington on your side

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Washington on your side

Look back at the Bill of Rights (Which I wrote)

The ink hasn't dried

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Washington on your side

Somebody has to stand up for the South

Somebody has to stand up to his mouth

If there's a fire you're trying to douse

You can't put it out from inside the house

I'm in the cabinet, I am complicit

In watching him grabbing at power and kiss it

If Washington isn't gon' listen to discipline, dissidence

This is the difference, this kid is out

In New York, you can be a new man

How do you write like you're running out of time?

Write day and night like you're running out of time

Every day, you fight like you're running out of time

Like you're running out of time, are you running out of time?

Let me tell you what I wish I had known

When I was young and dreamed of glory

You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story

I know that we can win

I know that greatness lies in you

But remember, from here on in

History has its eyes on you

And 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

We're gonna rise up, time to take a shot

Not throwing away my shot

We're gonna rise up, time to take a shot

Not throwing away my shot

We're gonna rise up, rise up

It's time to take a shot

Rise up, rise up

And I am not throwing away my

Not throwing away my shot

There's a million things I haven't done

But just you wait (Just wait)

What's your name, man?

Alexander (Hamilton)

Alexander (Hamilton)

Alexander (Hamilton)

Alexander (Hey!)