Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton Chords & Tabs

by Misc Musicals

[Content]
Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton (written by Lin-Manuel Miranda)

[BURR]
            Bm                                  
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
F#                                  
Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a
           G                                 
Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence
                   D    
Impoverished, in squalor
                Bbdim              
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

[LAURENS]
     Bm                                        
The ten-dollar founding father without a father
       F#                                
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
            G         
By being a lot smarter
By being a self-starter
      D                          Bbdim                     
By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter

[JEFFERSON]
     Bm                                                     
And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted
 F#                                                      
Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up
  G                                                
Inside he was longing for something to be a part of
     D                         Bbdim                  
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter

[MADISON]
        Bm                                    
Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
     F#                                             
Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
       G                                             
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
        D                          F#sus4          F#  
And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain

[BURR]
          Bm                                                  
Well the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man"
F#                                                   
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
G                                                     
"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came
          D                      Bbdim                        
and the world is gonna know your name." What's your name, man?

[HAMILTON]
Bm                
Alexander Hamilton
            F#               
My name is Alexander Hamilton
              G                            
And there's a million things I haven't done
              D              F#    
But just you wait, just you wait...

[ELIZA]
            Bm                                           
When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
     F#                                                   G  
Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden half-dead
Sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick

[COMPANY]
N.C.
And Alex got better but his mother went quick

[WASHINGTON]
Bm                                                  
Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
F#                                                          
Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside
  G           
A voice saying

[WASHINGTON]                     //    [COMPANY]
"You gotta fend for yourself"    //    "Alex, you gotta fend for yourself"

[WASHINGTON]
               D                         Bbdim               
He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

[BURR]
     Bm                                 
There would have been nothing left to do
For someone less astute, he woulda been
F#                                              
Dead or destitute without a sense of restitution
         G                                              
Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
D                             Bbdim                         
Tradin' sugarcane and rum and all the things he can't afford
Bm                                             
Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on
F#                                                 
Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on
    G                                  
The bow of a ship headed for a new land
   D                Bbdim       
In New York you can be a new man

[COMPANY]
  Bm                                
In New York you can   //  (HAMILTON)
Be a new man          //  Just you wait
   G7                              
In New York you can   // (HAMILTON)
Be a new man          //  Just you wait
   Em9             
In New York you can
Be a new man

[WOMEN]
   F#        
In New York--

[MEN]
New York

[HAMILTON]
Just you wait!

[COMPANY]
Bm                                     
Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
        G7                                                        
We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)
           Em            
You could never back down
                                F# 
You never learned to take your time
     Bm                                    
Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
      G7                  
When America sings for you
           Em                    
Will they know what you overcame?
           D                   Em   
Will they know you rewrote the game?
     Bm/F#      Em/G    D/A      F#7/A#
The world will never be the same, oh

[BURR]
   Bm                                       
The ship is in the harbor now  //  (COMPANY)
Bm/C#                                           
See if you can spot him        //  Just you wait
 Bm/D            
Another immigrant
    Em                                          
Comin' up from the bottom      //  Just you wait
     Em/G                    
His enemies destroyed his rep
Em/C#             
America forgot him

[MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON]
F#sus4   F#       
We fought with him

[LAURENS/PHILLIP]
F#sus4      F#    
Me? I died for him

[WASHINGTON]
Bm9/F#       F#  
Me? I trusted him

[ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA]
Em6/F#       F#
Me? I loved him

[BURR]
      F#                               
And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him

[COMPANY]
           Em/G                        D
There's a million things I haven't done
             Em6/F#
But just you wait!

[BURR]
F#7                   
What's your name, man?

[COMPANY]
Bm                 
Alexander Hamilton!
Bm