My shot Lyrics – Lin-manuel miranda, anthony ramos, daveed diggs, okieriete onaodowan, leslie odom, jr. & original broadway cast of “hamilton”

[HAMILTON]

I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot

Hey, yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry

And I’m not throwing away my shot

I’ma get a scholarship to King’s College

I prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but dag,
I amaze and astonish

The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word, I drop
knowledge

I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal

Tryin’ to reach my goal,
my power of speech unimpeachable

Only nineteen, but my mind is older

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder
Ev’ry burden, ev’ry disadvantage

I have learned to manage, I don’t have a gun to brandish

I walk these streets famished

The plan is to fan this spark into a flame

But damn, it’s getting dark, so let me spell out the name

I am the—
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
A-L-E-X-A-N-D
E-R—we are—meant to be

[HAMILTON]
A colony that runs independently
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin’ on us endlessly
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree

He ain’t ever gonna set his descendants free
So there will be a revolution in this century

Enter me

[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
(He says in parentheses)

[HAMILTON]
Don’t be shocked when your hist’ry book mentions me

I will lay down my life if it sets us free

Eventually, you’ll see my ascendancy

[HAMILTON & LAURENS]
And I am not throwing away
My shot (My shot)

I am not throwing away
My shot (My shot)

Hey, yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry

And I’m not throwing away my shot
And I’m not throwing away my shot[HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot

Hey, yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry

And I’m not throwing away my shot

It’s time to take a shot

[LAFAYETTE]
I dream of life without a monarchy
The unrest in France will lead to ‘onarchy?
‘Onarchy? How you say, how you s-oh, ‘anarchy!’
When I fight, I make the other side panicky

With my—

[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot

[MULLIGAN]

Yo, I’m a tailor’s apprentice

And I got y’all knuckleheads in loco parentis

I’m joining the rebellion ’cause I know it’s my chance
To socially advance, instead of sewin’ some pants

I’m gonna take a—

[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot[LAURENS]

But we’ll never be truly free
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
You and I, do or die, wait ’til I sally in
On a stallion with the first black battalion

Have another—

[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot

[BURR]

Geniuses, lower your voices
You keep out of trouble and you double your choices

I’m with you, but the situation is fraught

You’ve got to be carefully taught

If you talk, you’re gonna get shot

[HAMILTON]
Burr, check what we got

Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot

I think your pants look hot

Laurens, I like you a lot

Let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin’ the pot

What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot

Poppin’ a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not

A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?

Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is

Oh, am I talkin’ too loud?

Sometimes I get overexcited, shoot off at the mouth

I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I’ll make y’all proud

[LAURENS]
Let’s get this guy in front of a crowd

[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE]
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot

Hey, yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry

And I’m not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot

Hey, yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry

And I’m not throwing away my shot

[LAURENS & HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Ev’rybody sing
Whoa, whoa, whoa (Whoa, whoa, whoa)
Hey
Whoa (Whoa)
Woo
Whoa (Whoa)

Said, let ’em hear ya (Yeah)

Let’s go

[LAURENS & COMPANY]
Whoa, whoa, whoa

I said, shout it to the rooftops
Whoa

Said, to the rooftops
Whoa

Come on
Yeah
Come on, let’s go

[LAURENS]
Rise up
When you’re living on your knees, you rise up
Tell your brother that he’s gotta rise up
Tell your sister that she’s gotta rise up

[LAURENS AND ENSEMBLE & COMPANY]
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
Whoa, whoa, whoa
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
Whoa
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
Whoa
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
Whoa
Rise up (Rise up)

[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much, it feels more like a memory
When’s it gonna get me?

In my sleep?
Seven feet ahead of me?

If I see it comin’, do I run or do I let it be?

Is it like a beat without a melody?

See, I never thought I’d live past twenty

Where I come from, some get half as many

Ask anybody why we livin’ fast
and we laugh, reach for a flask

We have to make this moment last, that’s plenty

Scratch that

This is not a moment, it’s the movement
Where all the hungriest brothers with
Something to prove went?
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand

We roll like Moses, claimin’ our promised land

And? If we win our independence?
Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
I know the action in the street is excitin’
But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n’ fightin’
I’ve been readin’ ‘n’ writin’

We need to handle our financial situation

Are we a nation of states? What’s the state of our nation?

I’m past patiently waitin’

I’m passionately smashin’ every expectation
Every action’s an act of creation

I’m laughin’ in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow

[HAMILTON AND COMPANY]
And I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot

Hey, yo, I’m just like my country
I’m young, scrappy and hungry

And I’m not throwing away my shot

[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN & ENSEMBLE]
We’re gonna rise up, time to take a shot
Not throwing away my shot

We’re gonna rise up, time to take a shot
Not throwing away my shot
We’re gonna
We’re gonna

[HAMILTON & ENSEMBLE]
Time to take a shot (Rise up)

[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/LAURENS/MULLIGAN & ENSEMBLE]
Time to take a shot (Rise up)
Time to take a shot (Rise up)
Take a shot, ri— ri— ri—
Shot
Shot
A-yo, it’s
Time to take a shot (Time to take a shot)
Time to take a shot (Time to take a shot)
And I am— (And I am)

[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
Not throwin’ away my—

[COMPANY]
Not throwin’ away my shot

Album – Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) By Lin-manuel miranda, anthony ramos, daveed diggs, okieriete onaodowan, leslie odom, jr. & original broadway cast of “hamilton”

Release Date – September 25, 2015