forum Hamilton Song Train

Started March 10, 2018 by @iEchoX

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Work, work, Eliiizaa!

AND PEGGY!!!

The Schuyler sisters!
We're looking for a mind at work~

next song, I vote the room where it happens, or the og, Alexander Hamilton

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 being a lot smart
By being a Self starter
By fourteen
They put him in charge of a trading charter.

and everyday while slaves

(@@jynandor you forgot a line
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.
(I'M SEEING IT NEXT TUESDAY FINALLY)

THEN A HURRICANE CAME AND DEVESTATION REIGNED

OUR MAN SAW HIS FUTURE DRIP, DRIPPIN' DOWN THE DRAIN

The man saw his future drip, drippin down the drain
Put a pencil to his temple
Connected 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 main land

‘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 think.
And Alex got better but his mother went quick.

Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide, left him with nothing but ruined pride.

Something new inside, a voice saying ‘Alex you’ve gotta fend for yourself!’

He started retreatin' and reading every treatise on the shelf.

There would've been nothing left to do for someone less astute, he would've been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution.

Started working, clerking for his late mother's landlord, trading sugarcane 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

The bow of a ship, heading to a new land.
In New York you can be a new man!

In New York, you can, be a new man.
In New York, you can, be a new man.
In New York, you can, be a new man.
In New York…
JUST YOU WAIT!!!

Alexander Hamilton!

We are waiting in the wings for you! You never back down, you never learn to take your time!

Oh, Alexander Hamilton. When America sings for you, will they know what you overcame, will they know you rewrote the game?