Chords for #3 Hamilton - My Shot [[VIDEO LYRICS]]

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_ _ _ _ I am not throwing away my [Bb] shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Hey yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, and I'm not throwing [D] away my shot.
[Dm] I might get a scholarship to King's College.
I probably [Bb] shouldn't brag, but dag, I may seem astonished.
The [Cm] problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish.
I got [B] a holler just to be heard with every word I drop.
[G] Knowledge, I'm a diamond in the rough, a shining piece [Bb] of gold.
Trying to reach my goal, my power of speech, [C] unimpeachable.
Only 19, but my mind is [Eb] older.
These New York City [D] streets get cold.
I [G] shoulder every burden, every disadvantage.
I've learned [Bb] to manage.
I don't have a gun to banish.
I walk these streets [C] famished.
The plan is to fan this spark into a [Cm] flame, but damage gets [D] the block.
So let me spell out my [Gm] name.
I am the A-N-E-X-A-N [Bb]-D-E-R.
We are meant to [C] be.
A colony that runs independently, [Ebm] meanwhile Britain [D] keeps sitting on us endlessly.
[Gm] Essentially, he packs us relentlessly.
[Bb] Then King George turns around on suspense.
[C] He ain't never gonna set his descendants [Cm] free.
So there will be a [Gbm] revolution in this century.
[G] Enter me.
Don't [Bb] be shocked when your history book mentions me.
[C] I will lay down my life if it [D] sets us free.
Eventually, you'll see my ascendancy.
[Gm] And I am not thrown away, not shot.
[Bb] I am not thrown away, not shot.
[C] Hey yo, I'm just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and [Eb] hungry.
And I'm not thrown [D] away, not shot.
[Gm] I am not thrown away, not shot.
[Bb] I am not thrown away, not shot.
[Cm] Hey yo, I'm just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and [Eb] hungry.
And I'm not thrown [D] away, not shot.
[Gm] It's time to take a shot.
I dream of life without a [Bb] monarchy.
The unrest in France will lead to [C] anarchy.
Anarchy, how you say?
[Eb] Anarchy.
When I [A] fight, I make the other side [Gm] panicky with my gun.
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice.
[Bb] And I got child-luck, I had some local [C] parentis.
I'm turning over a million, cause I know it's my chance [Eb] to socially advance.
[A] Instead of sowing some pests, [Gm] I'm gonna take a shot.
And but we'll never be truly [Bb] free until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me.
[C] You and I do or die.
Wait till I sally [Eb] in on a stallion with the first black battalion [Gm] of another generation.
Geniuses, lower your voices.
[F] You keep out of trouble and you double your choices.
I'm with you, but the situation is [Cm] fraught.
You've [Gb] got to be carefully taught.
[Gm] If you talk, you're gonna get shot.
Bird, check what we got.
[Bb] Mr.
Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot.
[C] I think your pants look hot.
Lawrence, I like you a lot.
[Eb] Let's hatch a plot, blacker than [Gbm] the kettle calling the pot.
[Gm] What are the odds that God will put us all in one spot?
[Bb] Pop, put a squad in conventional wisdom, like it or not.
[Cm] A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists.
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition [Eb] is.
[D] Oh, am I talking too loud?
Sometimes I get overexcited.
Shoot off at the mouth.
I never had a group of friends before.
I promise that I'll make you proud.
Let's get this guy in front of a [Gm] crowd.
I am not going to be shot.
[Bb] I am not going to be shot.
[Cm] Hey, I want to swipe my country.
I'm not scrappy.
I'm not going to [D] be shot.
[Gm] I am not going to be shot.
[Bb] I am not going to be shot.
[Cm] Hey, I want to swipe my country.
I'm not scrappy.
I'm [Eb] not going to [D] be shot.
Everybody.
[Gm] Whoa, whoa, [Bb] whoa, _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[D] whoa, _ [Gm] whoa.
Let's go.
Oh, oh, [Bb] oh, oh.
_ Oh, oh, [Eb] oh, oh.
Oh, oh, [C] oh, oh, oh, [D] oh, oh.
[Gm] Rise up when you're living on your knees.
[Bb] You rise up to your brother that he's [Eb] got to rise up to your sister.
She's [Gb] got to rise up.
[A] When are these colonies [Gm] going to rise up?
When are these colonies [Bb] going to rise up?
When are these colonies [Cm] going to rise up?
When are these colonies going to rise up?
Rise up.
I [Gm] imagine death so much it feels more like a memory.
[Bb] When's it going to get me?
In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me.
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it [D] be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
[Gm] See, I never thought I'd live past 20.
Where I come [Bb] from, some get half as many.
Ask [Eb] anybody why we live it fast and we laugh, reach for a [D] glass.
We have to make this moment last.
That's [G] plenty.
Scratch that.
This is not a moment.
It's the [Bb] movement where all the hungriest brothers were something to [Eb] prove.
When foes oppose us, we take an [Gbm] honest stand and roll like [D] Moses claiming our [Gm] mother's land.
And if we win our [Bb] independence, let it guarantee a freedom for our descendants.
[Eb] Or will the blood be shed beginning an [D] endless cycle of vengeance and death with no [G] defendant?
I know the action in the street is exciting, [Bb] but Jesus, between all the bleeding and fighting, I've been reading [C] and writing.
We need to handle our financial [Eb] situation.
I'll be a [Gb] nation of states.
What's the state [Gm] of our nation?
I'm past patiently waiting.
I'm [Bb] passionately smashing every expectation, every action to lack [Cm] the creation.
I'm laughing [Dm] in the face of casualties and [D] sorrow for the first time I'm thinking past tomorrow.
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