![]() ![]() Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot I'm with you, but the situation is fraught You keep out of trouble and you double your choices On a stallion with the first black battalion Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants! I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance When I fight, I make the other side panickyĪnd I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis ‘Onarchy? How you say, how you say, ‘anarchy?' The unrest in France will lead to ‘onarchy? I will lay down my life if it sets us free So there will be a revolution in this centuryĭon't be shocked when your hist'ry book mentions me He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin' on us endlessly The plan is to fan this spark into a flameīut damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out the name I have learned to manage, I don't have a gun to brandish These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish I'm ‘a get a scholarship to King's College Ooh, who is this kid? What's he gonna do? If you stand for nothing, Burr, what'll you fall for? We'll see where we landīurr, the revolution's imminent. Good luck with that: you're takin' a stand ![]() Well, if it ain't the prodigy of Princeton college! It's hard to have intercourse over four sets of corsets. Lock up ya daughters and horses, of course Up in it, lovin' it, yes I heard ya mother said "Come again?" Tell the King "Casse toi!" Who's the best? Oui oui, mon ami, je m'appelle Lafayette! Two pints o' Sam Adams, but I'm workin' on three, uh!Ĭuz I will pop chick-a pop these cops till I'm free! While we're talking, let me offer you some free adviceĭon't let them know what you're against or what you're forįools who run their mouths off wind up dead Then we could prove that we're worth more It was my parents' dying wish before they passed So how'd you do it? How'd you graduate so fast? He looked at me like I was stupid, I'm not stupid Graduate in two, then join the revolution. I was seeking an accelerated course of study when I got sort of out of sorts with a buddy of yours. I'm Alexander Hamilton, I'm at your service, sir Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on ![]() Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide Half-dead sittin in their own sick, the scent thickĪnd Alex got better but his mother went quick Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden What's your name, man?"Īnd there's a million things I haven't done "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brainĪnd he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain ![]() Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of Got a lot farther by working a lot harderīy fourteen, they placed him in charge of aĪnd every day while slaves were being slaughtered and cartedĪway across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up The ten-dollar founding father without a father How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and aįorgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence ![]()
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