How does a bastard, orphan, son-of-a-whore, and a scotsmen, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean impoverished providence and squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar? The ten dollar, founding father without a father, got a lot farther by working a lot harder, by being a smarter, by being self-starter by fourteen. They placed him incharge of a trading charter, and every day while we slaughtered and carted away across the waves he struggled and kept his gaurd up. Inside he longing for something to be apart of. The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter. Then a hurricane came and devastation rained, our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain! Put a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain, he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain that the word got around they said this kid is insane man took up a collection to send them to the mainland get your education don't forget from which You Came the world's going to know your name what's your name man Alexander Hamilton my name is Alexander Hamilton and there's a million things I haven't done but just you wait just you wait when he was 10 as well as my phone isn't dead or in two years and you see Alex and his  mother bed ridden half-dead sitting in their own sick the scent thick and Alex got better but his mother went quick. Moved in with a cousin the cousin committed suicide left him with nothing but ruined pride, something new inside a voice saying Alex you gotta fend for yourself he started retreating and reading every treatise  on the shelf! There would've been norhing left to do for someone less astute. He would've been dead in destitute without a scent of restitution. He started working, clerking for his late mothers landlord trading sugurcane and rum and all the things he can't afford. Scamming for every book he can get his hands on, ((forgot line)) on the bow of a ship, headed for the new land, in New York you can be a new man! In New York you can be a new man, in New York you can be a new man, in New York you can be a new man.  In New York, New York just you wait! Alexander Hamilton! We are waiting in the wings for you! You never backed down, you never learned to take your tiiiiiiiiime oh, Alexander Hamilton! Yes America sings for you! Will they know what you overcame? Will they know you rewrote the game! The world, will never be the same! His ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him! Another immigrant coming up from the bottom! His enemys destroyed his rep, America forgot him! We fought with him! Me, I died for him! Me, I trusted him! Me, I loved him! And me, I'm the damn fool that shot him! There's a million things I haven't done, but just you waaaaiiit! What's your name man! Alexander Hamilton!