My Shot
[HAMILTON]
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!
Imma get a scholarship to King's College! I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish. The problem is, I've got a lotta 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, tryna to reach my goal. My power, speech, unimpeachable. Only nineteen, but my mind is older. These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden, every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish, I walk these streets, famished.
[BURR]
Whoo!
[HAMILTON]
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-
[LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
A-L-E-X-A-N-D-E-R, we are meant to be--
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
A colony that runs independently, meanwhile, Britain keeps s***tin' on us endlessly. Essentially, they tax 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.
[HAMILTON]
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 ascendency, and I am not throwin' away my shot!
[LAURENS]
My shot!
[HAMILTON]
I am not throwin' away my shot!
[LAURENS]
My shot!
[HAMILTON/LAURENS]
Hey yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry and I'm not throwin' away my shot! 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! It's time to take a shot!
[LAFAYETTE]
I dream of life without the monarchy. The unrest in France will lead to onarky. Onarky, how you say, how you say? Oh, anarchy! When I fight, I make the other side panicky with my--
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot!
[MULLIGAN]
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice, and I've got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis. I'm joining the rebellion, 'cause I know it's my chance to socially advance. Instead of sewin' some pants, I'm gonna take a--
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot!
[LAURENS]
And 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 'til I sally in on a stallion, with the first black battalion! Have another--
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
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've got! Mister 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 plot! What are the odds the gods put us all in one spot? Poppin' a squad of 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 talking too loud? Sometimes I get overexcited, 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 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! 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!
[LAURENS]
Everybody sing!
[COMPANY]
Whoa, whoa, whoa...
[LAURENS]
Ey!
[COMPANY
Whoa...
[LAURENS]
Whoo!
[COMPANY]
Whoa...
[LAURENS]
Should let em' hear ya!
[COMPANY]
Yeah...
[LAURENS]
Let's go!
[COMPANY]
Whoa, whoa, whoa...
[LAURENS]
I said, shout it to the rooftops!
[COMPANY]
Whoa...
[LAURENS]
Said to the rooftops!
[COMPANY]
Whoa...
[LAURENS]
C'mon!
[COMPANY]
Yeah!
[LAURENS]
C'mon, let's go! Rise up. When you're living on your knees, you rise up. Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up. Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up.
[COMPANY]
When are these colonies gonna rise up? When are these colonies gonna rise up? When are these colonies gonna rise up? When are these colonies gonna rise up? Rise up!
[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory. When's it gonna get me, in my sleep, seven feet ahead of me? If I see it comin', 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, claiming our promised land.
And? If we win our independence, is that 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 excitin' but Jesus, between all the bleedin' n' fightin', I've been readin' and 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 expectation. 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 and I am--
[COMPANY]
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!
We're gonna rise up! (Time to take a shot!)
I am not throwin' away my shot!
We're gonna rise up! (Time to take a shot!)
I am not throwin' away my shot!
We're gonna rise up, rise up!
It's time to take a shot!
Rise up, rise up!
It's time to take a shot!
Rise up! (Whoa!)
It's time to take a shot!
Rise up!
Take a shot, shot, shot!
Hey, yo it's time to take a shot, time to take a shot and I am not throwin' away my, not throwin' away my shot!