Lin-Manuel Miranda feat. Anthony RamosDaveed Diggs & Okieriete Onaodowan & Leslie Odom Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - My Shot Lyrics

Lyrics My Shot - Lin-Manuel Miranda , Daveed Diggs , Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton , Anthony Ramos , Leslie Odom Jr.



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'ma get a scholarship to King's College
I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dang, I amaze and astonish
The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish
I gotta holler just to be heard
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
Only nineteen, but my mind is older
These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder
Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage, I've 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
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
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free
So there will be a revolution in this century
Enter me
(He says in parentheses)
Don't be shocked when your hist'ry book mentions me
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
Eventually, you'll see my ascendancy
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
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 the monarchy
The unrest in France will lead to 'onarchy
'Onarchy? How you say, how you s-? Oh! Anarchy?
When I fight, I make the other side panicky
With my (shot)
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
I'm joining the rebellion 'cause 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 (that's right)
You and I, do or die, wait 'til I sally in 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
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
Laurens, I like you a lot
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?
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
A bunch of revolutionary, manumission abolitionists?
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is
Oh, am I talkin' too loud?
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
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
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
Ev'rybody sing
Whoa, whoa, whoa (hey)
Whoa (woo!) Whoa
I say, let 'em hear ya (yeah)
Let's go! (whoa, whoa, whoa)
I said shout it to the rooftops (whoa)
Said, to the rooftops (whoa)
Come on! (yeah)
Come on, let's go!
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
When are these colonies gonna rise up? (Whoa, whoa, whoa)
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up? (Whoa)
When are these colonies gonna rise up? (Whoa)
Rise up
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
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
Scratch that
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
Is that 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' 'nd 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?
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
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
We're gonna rise up (not throwing away my shot), time to take a shot
We're gonna rise up (not throwing away my shot), time to take a shot
We're gonna (rise up, rise up)
It's time to take a shot (rise up, rise up)
It's time to take a shot (rise up)
It's time to take a shot (whoa, whoa, whoa)
(Rise up)
Take a shot
Shot, shot (whoa, whoa, whoa)
A-yo it's time to take a shot (whoa-whoa)
Time to take a shot
And I am not throwing away my
Not throwing away my shot!



Writer(s): MUCHITA KEJUAN WALIEK, JOHNSON ALBERT, MIRANDA LIN-MANUEL


Lin-Manuel Miranda feat. Anthony RamosDaveed Diggs & Okieriete Onaodowan & Leslie Odom Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton - Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

1 Aaron Burr, Sir
2 Burn
3 Satisfied
4 What Comes Next?
5 Dear Theodosia
6 That Would Be Enough
7 My Shot
8 Wait For It
9 One Last Time
10 Meet Me Inside
11 Cabinet Battle #1
12 History Has Its Eyes On You
13 Cabinet Battle #1
14 Right Hand Man
15 One Last Time
16 Guns and Ships
17 Alexander Hamilton
18 Alexander Hamilton
19 That Would Be Enough
20 Non-Stop
21 The Story Of Tonight
22 Best of Wives and Best of Women
23 Farmer Refuted
24 Helpless
25 History Has Its Eyes On You
26 Non-Stop
27 Right Hand Man
28 Guns and Ships
29 My Shot
30 The Election of 1800
31 We Know
32 Blow Us All Away
33 The Schuyler Sisters
34 It's Quiet Uptown
35 Stay Alive (Reprise)
36 A Winter's Ball
37 Your Obedient Servant
38 The World Was Wide Enough
39 The Room Where It Happens
40 The Story of Tonight
41 Take a Break
42 Ten Duel Commandments
43 The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
44 Cabinet Battle #2
45 Hurricane
46 Wait For It
47 You'll Be Back
48 Schuyler Defeated
49 Best of Wives and Best of Women
50 Washington On Your Side
51 Satisfied
52 Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
53 Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
54 The Adams Administration
55 Helpless
56 The Election of 1800
57 Cabinet Battle #2
58 Your Obedient Servant
59 Say No To This
60 Stay Alive
61 Farmer Refuted
62 Aaron Burr, Sir
63 The Schuyler Sisters
64 The Room Where It Happens
65 My Shot
66 Right Hand Man
67 You'll Be Back
68 The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
69 A Winter's Ball
70 Stay Alive
71 The Story of Tonight - Reprise
72 Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
73 Ten Duel Commandments
74 Cabinet Battle #1
75 Washington On Your Side
76 Take A Break
77 Schuyler Defeated
78 Washington On Your Side
79 Blow Us All Away
80 We Know
81 Hurricane
82 Blow Us All Away
83 The Election Of 1800
84 Stay Alive - Reprise
85 It's Quiet Uptown
86 The World Was Wide Enough
87 What'd I Miss
88 I Know Him
89 The Reynolds Pamphlet



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