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how does a bastard, orphan, son of a ****
By providence impoverished, in squalor grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
By working a lot harder by being a lot smarter
by 14, they placed him in charge of the trading charter
across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow and barter
our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
and the world's gonna know your name, What's your name man?
There's a million things I haven't done, but just you wait, just you wait
2 years later, see Alex and his mother bedridden
and Alex got better
moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
a voice saying
he started retreating and reading every treatise on the shelf
for someone less astute
started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
Scammin'
Plannin'
Heading for 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
Alexander Hamilton
We are waiting in the wings for you,
Oh, Alexander Hamilton
When America sings for you
Will they know you rewrote the game?
The ship is in the harbor now,
Another Immigrant
His enemies destroyed his rep,
We fought with him
Me?
Me?
and Me?
There's a million things I haven't done
What's your name man?
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