My Shot (我的良机) - Leslie Odom, Jr./Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton/Lin-Manuel Miranda (林-曼努尔·米兰达)/Anthony Ramos (《汉密尔顿》音乐剧插曲)
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'm a 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
A-l-e-x-a-n-d
E-r we are meant to be
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
He says in parentheses
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
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
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
I dream of life without a monarchy
The unrest in France will lead to monarchy
Onarchy how you say how you say anarchy'
When I fight I make the other side panicky
With my
Shot
Yo I'm a tailor's apprentice
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parent-is
I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance
To socially advance instead of sewin' some pants
I'm gonna take a
Shot
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 till I sally in
On a stallion with the first black battalion
Have another
Shot
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
Burr check what we got
Mister Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
I think your pants look hot
Lauren's 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 over excited shoot off at the mouth
I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I'll make y'all proud
Let's get this guy in front of a crowd
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 am me
I'm young scrappy and hungry And I'm not throwing away my shot Ev'rybody sing
Whoa whoa whoa
Hey
Whoa
Wooh
Whoa
Ay let 'em hear ya
Let's go
Whoa
Wooh
I said shout it to the rooftops
Said to the rooftops
Come on