Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton: Accordi

Intro:
FA#7      

           SIm
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore
      FA#7
And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle 
               SOL
of a forgotten spot
       
In the Caribbean by providence impoverished
   RE                       FA#7/LA#
In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
    SIm
The ten-dollar founding father without a father
      FA#7
Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
           SOL
By being a lot smarter

By being a self-starter
       RE                           FA#7/LA#
By fourteen, they placed him in charge 

of a trading charter
    SIm
And every day while slaves were being 
                        FA#7
slaughtered and carted away

Across the waves, 

he struggled and kept his guard up
  SOL
Inside, he was longing for something 

to be a part of
       RE
The brother was ready to beg, 
     FA#7/LA#
steal, borrow, or barter
       SIm
Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
    FA#7
Our man saw his future drip, 

dripping down the drain
      SOL
Put a pencil to his temple, 

connected it to his brain
       RE
And he wrote his first refrain, 
  FA#7
a testament to his pain
          SIm
Well, the word got around, they said, 

this kid is insane, man
FA#7
Took up a collection just to send him 

to the mainland
SOL
Get your education, 
  
don't forget from whence you came
        RE                       FA#7/LA#
And the world is gonna know your name

What's your name, man?

SIm
Alexander Hamilton
           FA#7
My name is Alexander Hamilton
              SOL
And there's a million things I haven't done
             RE             FA#7
But just you wait, just you wait
            SIm
When he was ten his father split, 

full of it, debt-ridden
      FA#7
Two years later, 

see Alex and his mother bed-ridden
     SOL
Half-dead sittin' in their own sick, 
   
the scent thick
                         
And Alex got better but his mother went quick

SIm
Moved in with a cousin, 

the cousin committed suicide
FA#7
Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, 

something new inside
  SOL
A voice saying, 
     
"Alex, you gotta fend for yourself"
           RE
He started retreatin' and readin' 
      FA#7/LA#
every treatise on the shelf
      SIm
There would have been nothin' left to do 

for someone less astute
               FA#
He woulda been dead or destitute 

without a cent of restitution
        SOL
Started workin', clerkin' 

for his late mother's landlord
RE  
Tradin' sugar cane and rum 
    FA#7/LA#
and all the things he can't afford
SIm
Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on
FA#
Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on
    SOL
The bow of a ship headed for the new land
   RE               FA#7/LA#
In New York you can be a new man
   SIm
In New York you can be a new man (just you wait)
   SOL7
In New York you can be a new man (just you wait)
   MIm9
In New York you can be a new man
   FA#7
In New York, New York

Just you wait
SIm
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton
       SOL7
We are waiting in the wings for you

Waiting in the wings for you
          MIm7/9
You could never back down
                              FA#7
You never learned to take your time
    SIm
Oh, Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton
      SOL7
When America sings for you
          MIm
Will they know what you overcame?
          RE6                   MIm6+
Will they know you rewrote your game?

         SIm   SOL6  RE/LA   FA#7/LA#
The world will never be the same, oh
    SIm
The ship is in the harbor now
DO#m7/4
See if you can spot him (just you wait)
RE6                  MIm
 Another immigrant comin' up from the bottom 

(just you wait)
    SOL                       DO#m7/5-
His enemies destroyed his rep America forgot him
FA#4            FA#
We, fought with him
FA#4           FA#
Me, I died for him
SIm/FA#
Me, I died for him
FA#7
Me, I loved him
      LA#dim
And me, I'm the damn fool that shot him 

(shot him, shot him)
          SOL6                         RE        
There's a million things I haven't done
             FA#7/4   FA#7
But just you wait
             
What's your name, man?
                   SIm
Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton è un brano che fa parte del musical Hamilton, scritto interamente dal cantautore di New York Lin-Manuel Miranda. Debuttato il 20 gennaio 2015 a New York, racconta la vita di Alexander Hamilton, Padre fondatore degli Stati Uniti e primo Segretario del Tesoro per la nazione nascente. La canzone è il brano d'apertura dell'intero spettacolo e presenta al pubblico i primi vent'anni della sua vita. Gioventù fatta di povertà, vessazione ed un terribile uragano che distrusse la sua città natale.

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L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).