Alexander Hamilton - Leslie Odom Jr./Daveed Diggs/Okieriete Onaodowan/Lin-Manuel Miranda/Phillipa Soo/Christopher Jackson/Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton/Anthony Ramos

Lyrics by：Lin-Manuel Miranda

Composed by：Lin-Manuel Miranda

Produced by：Ahmir Thompson/Alex Lacamoire/Bill Sherman/Lin-Manuel Miranda/Tarik Trotter

How does a bastard orphan son of a w***e 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 workin' a lot harder

By bein' a lot smarter

By bein' a self-starter

By fourteen they placed him in charge of a trading charter

And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted

Away across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up

Inside he was longing for something to be a part of

The brother was ready to beg steal borrow or barter

Then a hurricane came and devastation reigned

Our man saw his future drip drippin' down the drain

Put a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain

And he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain

Well the word got around they said this kid is insane man

Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland

Get your education don't forget from whence you came and

The world's gonna know your name what's your name man

Alexander Hamilton

My name is Alexander Hamilton

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

But just you wait just you wait

When he was ten his father split full of it debt-ridden

Two years later see Alex and his mother bed-ridden

Half-dead sittin' in their own sick

The scent thick

And Alex got better but his mother went quick

Moved in with a cousin the cousin committed suicide

Left him with nothin' but ruined pride somethin' new inside

A voice saying

Alex you gotta fend for yourself

He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

There would have been nothin' left to do

For someone less astute

He woulda been dead or destitute

Without a cent of restitution

Started workin' clerkin' for his late mother's landlord

Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford

Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on

Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on oooh

The bow of a ship headed for a new land

In New York you can be a new man

In New York you can be a new man just you wait

In New York you can be a new man just you wait

In New York you can be a new man

In New York

New York

Just you wait

Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton

We are waiting in the wings for you waiting in the wings for you

You could never back down

You never learned to take your time

Oh Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton

When America sings for you

Will they know what you overcame

Will they know you rewrote the game

The world will never be the same oh

The ship is in the harbor now see if you can spot him

Just you wait

Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom

Just you wait

His enemies destroyed his rep America forgot him

We fought with him

Me I died for him

Me I trusted him

Me I loved him

And me I'm the damn fool that shot him

There's a million things I haven't done

But just you wait

What's your name man

Alexander Hamilton