Dear World: The Spring of Next Year

How does a bastard

Orphan

Son of a w***e and a Scotsman

Dropped in the middle of a Forgotten spot in the Caribbean

By providence

Impoverished in 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 lot smarter

By being a self starter

By fourteen

They placed him in charge of a trading charter

And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted

Away across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up

Inside he was longing for something to be a part of

The brother was ready to beg steal borrow or barter

Then a hurricane came and devastation reigned

Our man saw his future drip dripping down the drain

Put a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain

And he wrote his first refrain a testament to his pain

Well the word got around they said This kid is insane man

Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland

Get your education don't forget from whence you came and

The world is gonna 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 ten his father split full of it debt ridden

Two years later see Alex and his mother bed ridden

Half dead sittin' 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 nothin' but ruined pride something new inside

A voice saying

Alex you gotta fend for yourself

He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

There would have been nothin' left to do

For someone less astute

He woulda been dead or destitute

Without a cent of restitution

Started workin' clerkin' for his late mother's landlord

Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford

Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on

Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on

The bow of a ship headed for a new land

In New York you can be a new man

In New York you can

Be a new man

Just you wait

In New York you can

Be a new man

Just you wait

In New York you can be a new man

In New York

New York

Just you wait

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

We are waiting in the wings for you

You could never back down

You never learned to take your time

Oh Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

When America sings for you

Will they know what you overcame

Will they know you rewrote the game

The world will never be the same oh

The ship is in the harbor now

See if you can spot him

Another immigrant

Comin' up from the bottom

His enemies 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 d**n fool that shot him

There's a million things I haven't done

But just you wait

What's your name man

Alexander Hamilton