The Hamilton Polka - Weird Al Yankovic.mp3

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[00:02.32]How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
[00:04.82] Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten
[00:07.42] Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor
[00:09.97] Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
[00:11.89] The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
[00:14.80] Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
[00:16.83] By being a lot smarter
[00:18.10] By being a self-starter
[00:19.10] By fourteen, they placed him in charge of the trading charter
[00:22.06] Alexander Hamilton
[00:23.84] My name is Alexander Hamilton
[00:26.21] And there's a million things I haven't done
[00:28.27] But just you wait, just you wait
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[00:31.29]Wait for it
[00:31.78] Wait for it
[00:32.27]Wait for it
[00:32.77] Wait for it
[00:33.32] I am the one thing in life I can control
[00:35.26]Wait for it
[00:35.99] Wait for it
[00:36.56] Wait for it
[00:37.08] Wait for it
[00:37.60] I am inimitable
[00:38.78]I am an original
[00:39.74]And if there's a reason I'm still alive
[00:41.93]When so many have died
[00:43.52]Then I'm willin' to—
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[00:48.04]I'm willing to
[00:48.69] Work, work!
[00:49.54] Angelica!
[00:50.70] Work, work!
[00:51.45] Eliza!
[00:52.68] And Peggy—
[00:53.93]Look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now!
[00:57.35] History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be
[01:01.36] In the greatest city
[01:02.19] In the greatest city in the world!
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[01:05.53]The world turned upside down
[01:09.07] The world turned upside down
[01:12.60] The world turned upside down
[01:15.91] The world turned upside down
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[01:25.21]Yeah you'll blow us all away
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[01:28.45]Oceans rise, empires fall
[01:31.52] We have seen each other through it all
[01:34.73] And when push comes to shove
[01:37.93] I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!
[01:42.56] Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da
[01:45.05] Da da dat dat da da ya da!
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[01:54.72]No one else was in
[01:56.36] The room where it happened
[01:57.35] The room where it happened
[01:58.56] The room where it happened
[02:00.33] No one else was in
[02:01.52] The room where it happened
[02:02.72] The room where it happened
[02:04.14] The room where it happened
[02:05.82] No one really knows how the game is played
[02:08.21] The art of the trade
[02:09.94] How the sausage gets made
[02:11.58] We just assume that it happens
[02:14.29] But no one else is in the room where it happens
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[02:19.10]We are outgunned (What?)
[02:20.58] Outmanned (What?)
[02:21.43]Outnumbered
[02:23.09]Outplanned
[02:23.98] We gotta make an all out stand
[02:25.68] Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man
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[02:28.13]Hamilton!
[02:28.63] Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
[02:29.83] Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean—
[02:31.49]Hamilton!
[02:32.38] Sir, you're gonna have to use him eventually
[02:33.38] What's he gonna do on the bench? I mean—
[02:34.62]Hamilton!
[02:35.24] No one has more resilience
[02:36.25] Or matches my practical tactical brilliance—
[02:37.85]Hamilton!
[02:38.55] You wanna fight for your land back?
[02:39.76] Hamilton!
[02:40.33] I need my right hand man back!
[02:41.35] Uh, get ya right hand man back
[02:42.72] You know you gotta get ya right hand man back
[02:44.35] I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter but the sooner the better
[02:46.57] To get your right hand man back!
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[02:48.29]It must be nice, it must be nice
[02:52.04] To have Washington on your side
[02:54.73] It must be nice, it must be nice
[02:58.39] To have Washington on your side
[03:01.19] Look back at the Bill of Rights (Which I wrote)
[03:04.54]The ink hasn't dried
[03:07.42] It must be nice, it must be nice
[03:11.28] To have Washington on your side—
[03:13.48]Somebody has to stand up for the South!
[03:14.80] Somebody has to stand up to his mouth!
[03:16.33] If there's a fire you're trying to douse
[03:17.72] You can't put it out from inside the house
[03:19.49] I'm in the cabinet, I am complicit in
[03:20.95] Watching him grabbin' at power and kiss it
[03:22.41] If Washington isn't gon' listen
[03:23.50] To disciplined dissidents, this is the difference:
[03:25.10] This kid is out
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[03:31.52]In New York you can be a new man
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[03:37.51]How do you write like you're running out of time?
[03:39.45] Write day and night like you're running out of time?
[03:41.53] Ev'ry day you fight like you're running out of time
[03:43.61] Like you're running out of time
[03:44.69] Are you running out of time?
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[03:46.65]Let me tell you what I wish I'd known
[03:48.21] When I was young and dreamed of glory
[03:49.93] You have no control
[03:51.35] Who lives, who dies, who tells your story
[03:53.37] I know that we can win
[03:55.74] I know that greatness lies in you
[03:58.01] But remember from here on in
[03:59.84] History has its eyes on you (Whoa...)
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[04:08.62]And I am not throwing away my shot
[04:10.36] I am not throwing away my shot
[04:12.31] Hey yo, I'm just like my country
[04:13.66] I'm young, scrappy and hungry
[04:15.10] And I'm not throwing away my shot
[04:16.55] We gonna rise up, time to take a shot (Not throwing away my shot)
[04:18.84] We gonna rise up, time to take a shot (Not throwing away my shot)
[04:20.60] We're gonna rise up, rise up! (It's time to take a shot!)
[04:22.84] Rise up, rise up!
[04:24.28] And I am not throwing away my
[04:25.57] Not throwing away my shot
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[04:29.91]There's a million things I haven't done
[04:32.13] But just you wait (Just wait)
[04:34.83] What's your name, man?
[04:37.55] Alexander (Hamilton)
[04:41.98] Alexander (Hamilton)
[04:43.52] Alexander (Hamilton)
[04:44.86] Alexander