being a lot smarter — Tom F#
Confira a cifra completa de Alexander Hamilton no UkeMaster Pro.
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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
[G]
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
[G]
Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain
[D] [F#4] [F#]
And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
[Bm]
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
[G]
"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came
[D] [Bb°]
And the world is gonna know your name." What's your name, man?
[Bm]
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
[D] [F#]
But just you wait, just you wait
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When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
[F#] [G]
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
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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
[G]
A voice saying
"You gotta fend for yourself"
"Alex, you gotta fend for yourself"
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He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf
[Bm]
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
[G]
Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord
[D] [Bb°]
Tradin' sugarcane and rum and all the things he can't afford
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Scannin' 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
[D] [Bb°]
In New York you can be a new man
[Bm]
In New York you can
Be a new man
Just you wait
[G7]
In New York you can
Be a new man
Just you wait
[Em9]
In New York you can
Be a new man
[F#]
In New York--
New York
Just you wait!
[Bm]
Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
[G7]
We are waiting in the wings for you
(waiting in the wings for you)
[Em]
You could never back down
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You never learned to take your time
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Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
[G7]
When America sings for you
[Em]
Will they know what you overcame?
[D] [Em]
Will they know you rewrote the game?
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The world will never be the same, oh
[Bm]
The ship is in the harbor now
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See if you can spot him
Just you wait
[Bm/D]
Another immigrant
[Em]
Comin' up from the bottom
Just you wait
[Em/G]
His enemies destroyed his rep
[Em/C#]
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
[Em6/F#] [F#]
Me? I loved him
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And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him
[Em/G] [D]
There's a million things I haven't done
[Em6/F#]
But just you wait!
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What's your name, man?
[Bm]
Alexander Hamilton!
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