Chapter 4: my shot
[Hamilton]
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
Alex: that was a great school. Though I wish that more classes where available. Like an advanced math class or maybe just a simple master class that teaches you how to do simple things like cooking. Im hopeless at it and I really wish I wasn't.
John: it's true. I thought that eating horse was bad but Alex's cooking really takes the hat
This causes everyone to laugh and for Eliza to kiss Alex's blushing cheeks
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
Eliza: not for long though. The war maybe still going but I know that when we win, you will do something great.
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
Hercules: (laughing) that's true. Remember Seabury. That was great! I wonder if that will be in the musical too.
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-
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS] [HAMILTON]
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
Martha: language alexander!
Alexander jumps as she hands the playbill in her hand to Eliza and she hits him with it. For someone with small hands, she can hit quite hard
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
George Washington: that's probably true. I've never seen a man with so many jewels a he does.
Lafayette: you check Mon Amie? Wow
George bushes and throws a chip at Lafayette
He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free [LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
So there will be a revolution in this century
Enter me!
(He says in parentheses)
Peggy: ohhh that's smart [HAMILTON]
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
Eventually, you'll see my ascendancy
[HAMILTON]
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
[LAURENS]
My shot
John: yea! Im back!
Thomas: you never left!
John: I will attack you with my turtle army.
Thomas: what are you one about.
James: he's clearly insane.
John/Lafayette/Hercules/Alex: hey!
My shot! And I'm not throwing away my shot. [HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE] [LAFAYETTE]
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 'onarchy?
'Onarchy? How you say, how you say, 'anarchy?'
When I fight, I make the other side panicky [HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN] [MULLIGAN]
With my-
Shot!
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
Most of the room nods. The feeling of hopelessness had settled into their bones and was quite difficult to shake
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis [HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN] [LAURENS]
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
Thomas: oh really? You do know that George owns slaves right! What a hypocrite.
John: im very aware actually Thomas. What's your problem with me? Can you please just clam down.
Thomas: sorry. Im just not use don't it all. You know. I've not been involved in the war so I don't really understand anything that's going on.
John: it's ok. I act out when im stressed too so I understand.
You and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in [HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN] [BURR]
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 [HAMILTON]
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
Hercules flicks his legs up dramatically and everyone laughs
Laurens, I like you a lot
Alex and john high five and smile at each other. They weren't ready to show their true feelings for each other. Maybe they never will be. Stupid society and their rules on what it is right and wrong.
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
angelica: astronomical (whilst laughing and shaking her head)
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not Oh, am I talkin' too loud?
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is!
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
John and Hercules nod and smile at the man they had become to think as a brother. They do not notice the sadness in his eyes as he thinks of his past. [HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE] I am not throwing away my shot Let's go! I said shout it to the rooftops! Come on, let's go! [HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/ Whoa! Whoa! Yea! [COMPANY] Yea! [LAURENS]
[LAURENS]
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
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
[LAURENS]
Everybody sing:
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Hey!
Whoa!
Wooh!
Whoa!
Ay, let 'em hear ya!
Said, to the rooftops!
Come on!
MULLIGAN]
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Rise up!
When you're living on your knees, you rise up
Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up
Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
[LAURENS AND ENSEMBLE]
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
All men: hey! Let's go!
All woman: hope that it's soon and worth the risk!
When are these colonies gonna rise up? Rise up! Rise up! [HAMILTON]
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
[COMPANY]
Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Whoa!
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When's it gonna get me?
They then smile at each other, realizing that they had a common goal. Keep Alex alive and fighting. They care too much about him to even think about failing.
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me? Scratch that
If I see it comin', do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come from some get half as many
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty
This is not a moment, it's the movement
Where all the hungriest brothers with
Something to prove went?
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
We roll like Moses, claimin' our promised land
And? If we win our independence?
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
I know the action in the street is excitin'
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'
I've been readin' 'n writin'
We need to handle our financial situation
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?
George; you wish to govern my boy.
Thomas: im hopeful sir.
George smiles at that. Thomas Jefferson. That's a name he must remember
I'm past patiently waitin'. I'm passionately
Smashin' every expectation
Every action's an act of creation!
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow
Alex: wow that was quite impressive. [HAMILTON] [HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/ Time to take a shot! Take a shot! Not throwing away my shot We're gonna Rise up! Rise up! Rise up! Rise up! Ri- ri- ri- Time to take a shot! [HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS] COMPANY
[HAMILTON AND COMPANY]
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
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/
LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
We're gonna rise up! Time to take a shot!
We're gonna rise up! Time to take a shot!
We're gonna
Time to take a shot!
LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
Time to take a shot!
Shot!
Shot!
A-yo it's
Time to take a shot!
Time to take a shot!
And I am-
[ENSEMBLE]
Not throwing away my shot
Rise up!
Rise up!
Time to take a shot!
And I am-
Not throwin' away my-
Not throwin' away my shot!
The audience are stunned as the amazing song stops. However, with the newest arivail on their way, British guards will be even more stunned as king George had possibly escaped his locked chambers as he was about to be questioned on how they lost the war. And why was the only piece of evidence that they had was a piece of parchment with the words
Gone leavin'
Georgie the third