Hamilton: An American Musical GENDERBENT Lyrics

Alexandra Hamilton

How does a bastard, orphan, daughter of a whore and a Scotswoman 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?

The ten-dollar, founding mother without a mother got a lot farther by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter, by 14, they placed her in charge of a trading charter.

And everyday while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the waves she struggled and kept her guard up. Inside she was longing for something to be a part of the sistah was ready to beg, steal, borrow or barter.

Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned our girl saw her future drip, drippin' down the drain. Put a pencil to her temple connected it to her brain, then she wrote her first refrain, a testament to her pain.

When the word got around they said "This kid is insane, man!" Took up a collection just to send her to the mainland. Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and the world's gonna know your name. What's your name, woman?

Alexandra Hamilton. My name is Alexandra Hamilton. And there's a million things I haven't done, but just you wait, just you wait!

When she was 10 her mother split, full of it, debt-ridden, two years later see Alex and her father bed-ridden. Half-dead, sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick...

And Alex got better but her father went quick.

Moved in with her cousin, the cousin committed suicide, left her with nothing but ruined pride, something new inside! A voice saying:

"Alex, you gotta fend for yourself!"

She started retreatin' readin' ev'ry treatise on the shelf!

There would've been nothing left to do for someone less astute, she would've been dead and destitute without a cent of resitution, started working, clerking for her late father's landlord, tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things she can't afford.

Scammin' for ev'ry book she could get her hands on

Plannin' for the future see her now as she stands on the bow of a ship, headed for a new land. In New York you can be a new woman!

In New York you can be a new woman (just you wait)

In New York you can be a new woman (just you wait)

In New York you can be a new woman!

In New York! New York! 

JUST YOU WAIT!

Alexandra Hamilton, Alexandra Hamilton, we are waiting in the wings for you! (Waiting in the wings for you). You never backed down you never learned to take your time! Oh! Alexandra Hamilton, Alexandra Hamilton! When America sings for you! Will they know what you overcame? Will they know you re-wrote the game? The world will never be the same, woah.

The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot her! (Just you wait)

Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom! (Just you wait)

Her enemies destroyed her rep, America forgot her! 

We fought with her.

Me? I died for her.

Me? I trusted her.

Me? I loved her!

And me? I'm the damn fool that shot her.

There's a million things I haven't done, but just you wait!

What's your name woman?

ALEXANDRA HAMILTON