Hamilton Polka Tabulatur von Weird Al Yankovic (für Baryton)

[Intro]
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How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
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Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten
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Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor
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Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
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The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
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Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
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By being a lot smarter

By being a self-starter
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By fourteen, they placed him in charge of the trading charter
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Alexander Hamilton
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My name is Alexander Hamilton
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And there's a million things I haven't done
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But just you wait, just you wait


     Em
Wait for it
     Em
Wait for it
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Wait for it
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Wait for it
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I am the one thing in life I can control
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Wait for it
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Wait for it
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Wait for it
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Wait for it
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I am inimitable
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I am an original
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And if there's a reason I'm still alive
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When so many have died
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Then I'm willin' to

[Interlude]
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I'm willing to
    Em
Work, work!
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Angelica!
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Work, work!
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Eliza!
    Em
And Peggy
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Look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now!
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History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be
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In the greatest city
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In the greatest city in the world! (In the Wor-or-or-or-orld)


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The world turned upside down
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The world turned upside down
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The world turned upside down 
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The world turned upside down [roots only]: (da down down down hey)

[Interlude]
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Yeah you'll blow us all away


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Oceans rise, empires fall
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We have seen each other through it all
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And when push comes to shove
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I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!
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Da da da dat da dat da da da day ya da
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Da da dat dat da day ya    dow!


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No one else was in
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The room where it happened
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The room where it happened
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The room where it happened
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No one else was in
C
The room where it happened
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The room where it happened
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The room where it happened
Em                             C
No one really knows how the game is played
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The art of the trade
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How the sausage gets made
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We just assume that it happens
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But no one else is in the room where it happens


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We are outgunned (What?)
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Outmanned (What?)
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Outnumbered
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Outplanned
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We gotta make an all out stand
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Ayo, I'm gonna need a right-hand man


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Hamilton!
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Sir, he knows what to do in a trench
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Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean
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Hamilton!
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Sir, you're gonna have to use him eventually
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What's he gonna do on the bench? I mean
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Hamilton!
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No one has more resilience
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Or matches my practical tactical brilliance
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Hamilton!
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You wanna fight for your land back?
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Hamilton!
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I need my right hand man back!
Fm
Uh, get ya right hand man back
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You know you gotta get ya right hand man back
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I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter but the sooner the better
Fm
To get your right hand man back!


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It must be nice, it must be nice
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To have Washington on your side
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It must be nice, it must be nice
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To have Washington on your side
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Look back at the Bill of Rights (Which I wrote!)
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The ink hasn't dried
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It must be nice, it must be nice
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To have Washington on your side
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Somebody has to stand up for the South!
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Somebody has to stand up to his mouth!
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If there's a fire you're trying to douse
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You can't put it out from inside the house
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I'm in the cabinet, I am complicit in
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Watching him grabbin' at power and kiss it
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If Washington isn't gon' listen
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To disciplined dissidents, this is the difference:
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This kid is out

[Interlude]
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In New York you can be a new man

Em                                    D      G
How do you write like you're running out of time?
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Write day and night like you're running out of time?
Em                                 D
Every day you fight like you're running out of time
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Like you're running out of time
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Are you running out of time?


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Let me tell you what I wish I'd known
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When I was young and dreamed of glory
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You have no control
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Who lives, who dies, who tells your story
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I know that we can win
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I know that greatness lies in you
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But remember from here on in
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History has its eyes on you


Em
And I am not throwing away my shot
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I am not throwing away my shot
             Am
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
Am
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
         C                    B
And I'm not throwing away my shot
         Em
We gonna rise up, time to take a shot (Not throwing away my shot)
          G
We gonna rise up, time to take a shot (Not throwing away my shot)
             Am
We're gonna rise up, rise up! (It's time to take a shot!)
Em
Rise up, rise up!
B
And I am not throwing away my
B                     Em
Not throwing away my shot


[Outro]
              C                          G
There's a million things I haven't done
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But just you wait (Just wait)
N.C
What's your name, man?
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Alexander (Hamilton)
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Alexander (Hamilton)
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Alexander (Hamilton)
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Alexander

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