Hamilton Fans!! discussion

Basically, this is where we attempt to sing the entire musical of Hamilton. One person posts a line, the next person posts the next line and so on.

Shout-out to the group: Winnonion Riot, who's "Attempting to sing Epic" thread inspired me to create this.

How does a bastard, orphan

Which should we start with?

Son of a wh0re and a Scotsman

dropped in the middle of a forgotten Spot

in the caribbean by providence impoverished and 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 a trading charter.

And everyday 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 rained

our man saw his future drip, dripping 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

now 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 worlds gonna know your name

what's your name, man?

Alexandra Hamilton, my name is Alexandra Hamilton

and there's a million things I haven't done, but just you wait, just you wait

When he was 10, 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 nothing but ruined pride

something new inside

A voice saying “Alex you gotta fend for yourself.”

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

There would've 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 everything he can't afford

Scannin for every book he can get his hands on

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)

Just you wait

Just you wait

Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)

we are waiting in the wings for you

You could never back down, you never learned to take your time.

Alexander Hamilton America sings for you

Will they know what you overcame?

Will they know you rewrote your game?

The world will never be the same.