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Alexander Hamilton

Biography:

Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980 in New York, NY) is an American composer, lyricist, librettist, rapper, and actor, best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton.

Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical In the Heights, which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in March 2008. Miranda's written work for the show earned him numerous accolades, including the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score and the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

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How does a bastard orphan son of a whore and a
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Scotsman dropped in the middle of a
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Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence
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Impoverished in squalor
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Grow up to be a hero and a scholar

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The ten-dollar founding father without a father
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Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
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By being a lot smarter

By being a self-starter
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By fourteen they placed him in charge of a trading charter

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And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted
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Away across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up
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Inside he was longing for something to be a part of
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The brother was ready to beg steal borrow or barter

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Then a hurricane came and devastation reigned
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Our man saw his future drip dripping down the drain
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Put a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain
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And he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain

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Well the word got around they said This kid is insane man
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Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
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Get your education don't forget from whence you came
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and the world is gonna know your name What's your name man

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Alexander Hamilton
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My name is Alexander Hamilton
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And there's a million things I haven't done
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But just you wait just you wait

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When he was ten his father split full of it debt-ridden
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Two years later see Alex and his mother bed-ridden half-dead

Sittin' in their own sick the scent thick

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And Alex got better but his mother went quick

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Moved in with a cousin the cousin committed suicide
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Left him with nothin' but ruined pride something new inside
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A voice saying Alex you gotta fend for yourself

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

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There would have been nothing left to do

For someone less astute he woulda been
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Dead or destitute without a sense of restitution
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Started workin' clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
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Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford
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Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on
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Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on
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The bow of a ship headed for a new land
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In New York you can be a new man

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

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In New York

Just you wait

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Alexander Hamilton
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We are waiting in the wings for you
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You could never back down
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You never learned to take your time
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Oh Alexander Hamilton
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When America sings for you
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Will they know what you overcame
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Will they know you rewrote the game
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The world will never be the same oh

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The ship is in the harbor now

See if you can spot him
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Another immigrant
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Comin' up from the bottom
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His enemies destroyed his rep

America forgot him

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We fought with him
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Me I died for him
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Me I trusted him
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Me I loved him

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And me I'm the damn fool that shot him

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There's a million things I haven't done
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But just you wait

What's your name man

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Alexander Hamilton

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