CLICK SPACE How do you like the new thumbnail? Ok, ok. I know that some people are going to say that there are bad words in the original script for this song, which is why I would like to say to the that I have personally rewritten this song to make it PG. FAQ: What does WOMEN mean? Any Female actresses. What does company mean? All actors/Actresses.
Script for song #1, Alexander Hamilton: ACT 1 . Alexander Hamilton BURR How does a no-good, orphan, son of a whole lot more then a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar? LAURENS 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. JEFFERSON And every day while slaves were being 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. MADISON Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned, 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. BURR Well, 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 world is gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?” HAMILTON Alexander Hamilton. My name is Alexander Hamilton. And there’s a million things I haven’t done, but just you wait, just you wait... ELIZA When he was ten 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, COMPANY And Alex got better but his mother went quick. WASHINGTON Moved in with a cousin, the cousin then died. Left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, something new inside, a voice saying, COMPANY “Alex, you gotta fend for yourself.” WASHINGTON he started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf. BURR There would have 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 all the things he can’t afford scammin’ for every book he can get his hands on, plannin’ for the future see him now as he stands on the bow of a ship headed for a new land, In New York you can be a new man. COMPANY Scammin’ Plannin’ Oooh... COMPANY In New York you can be a new man— In New York you can be a new man— HAMILTON Just you wait! Just you wait! COMPANY In New York you can be a new man— WOMEN In New York— HERCULES MULLIGAN new york, new york, new york!— HAMILTON Just you wait! COMPANY Alexander Hamilton We are waiting in the wings for you You could never back down, you never learned to take your time! Oh, Alexander Hamilton When America sings for you Will they know what you overcame? Will they know you rewrote the game? The world will never be the same, oh. COMPANY Alexander Hamilton Waiting in the wings for you You never learned to take your time! Oh, Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton… America sings for you Will they know what you overcame? Will they know you rewrote the game? The world will never be the same, oh. BURR The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him. Another immigrant, comin’ up from the bottom. His enemies destroyed his rep, America forgot him MULLIGAN: Just you wait COMPANY Just you wait MULLIGAN/LAFAYETTE We fought with him. LAURENS Me? I died for him. WASHINGTON Me? I trusted him. ELIZA/ANGELICA/MARIA Me? I loved him. BURR And me? I’m the fool that shot ’em COMPANY There’s a million things I haven’t done, but just you wait! BURR What’s your name, man? COMPANY Alexander Hamilton! Thanks to Linn Manuel Mirinda (Did I spell that right?) for the original play and script!
