Chords for Hamilton - Aaron Burr, Sir / My Shot (Original Cast 2016 - Live)

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[Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] 1776.
_ _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ New York City.
Pardon me, are [A] you Aaron Burr, sir?
[E] That depends, who's asking?
Oh, well, sure.
Sir, I'm Alexander [E] Hamilton.
I'm at your [A] service, sir.
I have been [B] looking for you.
I'm getting nervous.
Sir, I [C] heard your name at Princeton.
I [A] was seeking an accelerated course of [E] study.
When I got sort of out of sorts with a buddy [C] of yours, I may have punched him.
It's a blur, [A] sir.
He handles the financials.
You [C] punched a Burr, sir?
Yes.
I wanted to do with you to graduate and choose [Em] and join the revolution.
He [D] looked at me like I was stupid.
I'm not [C] stupid.
So how do you do it?
How'd you [A] graduate so fast?
[C] It was my parents' dying wish before they passed.
You're an orphan.
Of [A] course.
I'm an orphan.
God, I wish there was [E] a war, then we could prove that we're worth more than anyone [C] bargained for.
Can I buy you a drink?
[A] That would be nice.
[Em] While we're talking, let me offer you some free advice.
Talk less.
[E] What?
_ [C] Smile more.
Huh.
Don't let them [A] know what you're [B] against or what [Gb] you're [C] for.
[Am] Can't be serious.
[Em] You want to get ahead?
Yes.
[C] Those who run their [A] mouths off wind [E] up dead.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, what time is it?
Showtime!
[Em] Like I say.
Showtime, showtime, yo!
I'm John [Bb] Lawrence in the place to be.
At two points to Sam Adams, but I'm working on three.
Those [A] redcoats don't want it with me, cause I will pop, shake a flop these cops till I'm [F] free.
Oui, oui, mon ami, je m'appelle Lafayette, de [Eb] l'insolente, de la revolution, la [Db] recette.
I came from the Roi de Saucer, Bonsoir, and the king, je [C] te dois.
Oui, c'est moi.
Brra, brra, I am Hercules Mulligan, up in the Lovenay.
Yes, I heard your mother say, come again.
Light up your daughters in horses.
Of course, it's hard for heaven to cause the before, set the course.
Oh, no more sex [Ab] for me, another cruise.
Fine, let's raise a couple more.
See [F] the revolution.
Well, if it ain't the prodigy of Princeton College.
Aaron Burr.
Give us a verse, drop some knowledge.
[G] Good luck with that, you're [Ab] taking a stand.
You [Abm] spit, I'mma sit, we'll see where we land.
Heard the revolution's imminent, what are you stalled for?
If you stand for [Cm] nothing, Burr, what will you fall for?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who [D] is this here?
Watch it [Gm] go.
I am not throwing away my shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my shot.
[C] Hey, yo, I'm just like my country, I'm [G] young, scrappy, and hungry,
and I'm not throwing [D] away my shot.
[Gm] I'mma get a scholarship to King's College.
A baller [Bb] shirt and rag, but dag, I'm amazing, astonished.
The [Cm] problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish.
I gotta holler [Ebm] just to be heard with every word.
I [G] drop knowledge, I'm a diamond in the rough.
I [Bb] shine a piece of coal, trying to reach my goal.
My power of [G] speech, unimpeachable, only [C] 19, but my [D] mind is older.
These New [Ebm] York City streets get cold, I shoulder [G] every burden, every disadvantage.
I've [Bb] learned to manage, I don't have a gun to brandish.
I walk these [Gm] streets, [Cm] banish the planet, to fan this spot,
and to acclaim the [D] damned's pet dogs, so let me spell out their name.
I [Gm] am the A-L-E-S-H-A [Dm]-N-D-E [Bb]-R.
We are meant [G] to be a colony that runs independently.
Meanwhile, Britain [D] keeps shitting on us [G] endlessly.
Essentially, it backs us [Bb] relentlessly.
And King George turns around, runs to spend [G] his spring.
[C] He ain't ever gonna set his descendants [D] free,
so there will be a [Am] revolution in this century.
Enter me, [F] he says in [Bb] parentheses.
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions [G] me.
I will lay down my life if it sets us [Eb] free.
Eventually, [D] you'll see my ascendancy.
[Gm] And I am not throwing away my shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Hey yo, I'm just like [C] my country, I'm young, scrappy, and [Eb] hungry,
and I'm not throwing [D] away my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away my shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Hey yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy, and [Eb] hungry,
and I'm not throwing [D] away my shot.
[Gm] So I'mma 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 shot.
Yo, I'm a tailor's [Bb] apprentice, and I got John Knucklehead's local parents.
[C] I'm joining the rebellion, cause I know it's my chance [Eb] to socially advance.
[A] Instead of throwing in some pants, [Gm] I'm gonna take a shot.
But we'll never be truly [D] free until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me.
[C] You and I do or die.
Wait till I sally in [Eb] on a stallion with the [Gb] first black battalion [Gm] of another shot.
Geniuses, lower your voices.
You keep out of trouble and you double your choices.
[Cm] I'm with you, but the situation [Gm] is fraught.
You've got to be carefully taught.
If you talk, you're gonna get shot.
[Bb] Oh, check what we got.
Mr.
Lafayette, hard rock like [C] Lancelot.
I think your pants look hot.
Lawrence, I like you a [Ebm] lot.
Such a plot, [D] blacker than the kettle calling the [Gm] pot.
What are the odds that God's with good as all in one [Bb] spot?
Populist, wild and conventional, wisdom like it or not.
[Cm] A bunch of revolutionary, manumission abolitionists.
[D] Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is.
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 y'all proud.
Let's get this guy in front of a [Gm] crowd.
Throwing away my [Bb] shop.
I am not throwing away my shop.
Is [Cm] no one just seeing how strong am I?
Are you not [D] throwing away my [Gm] _ _ shop?
[Bb] Are you not throwing away my shop?
[Cm] Are you not throwing away my shop?
Is no one just looking you,
are you struck through your 40?
You are not throwing [D] away my shop?
[Gm] Everybody sing!
Whoa, whoa! _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Gm] Rise up, when you live in on your [Bb] knees.
You rise up to your brother that [Eb] needs gotta rise up.
Tell your [Gb] sister that she's got to rise up.
rise up.
[Am] We're not these colonies, [Gm] we're gonna rise up.
We're not these colonies, [Bb] we're gonna rise _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] up.
I [A] imagine death so much it feels [Gm] more like a memory.
When's it gonna get me?
We must leave
seven feet ahead of me.
If I see it coming, [D] do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat [G] without
a melody?
See I never thought I'd live past 20.
Where I [Bb] come from some get half as many.
Ask [Eb] anybody why we're living fast and we laugh, reach for a [D] flask.
We have to make this moment last.
That's [G] plenty, scratch that.
This is not a moment, it's the [Bb] movement.
We're a hungry as brothers
with something to [Eb] prove when foes oppose us.
We take an [D] honest stand, we roll like Moses,
claiming our [Gm] father's land.
And if we win our [Bb] independence, is that a guarantee of freedom
for our [Eb] descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an [D] endless cycle of vengeance and death
with no [G] defendants?
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 situation.
[F] Your [G] nation and states, what's the state of [Gm] our nation?
Past patiently waiting to bash in [Bb] it.
Not every expectation, every action, [Cm] act of creation.
I'm laughing at the face of casualties,
[Gb] it's all over.
The first time I'm thinking past [D] tomorrow.
I'm not [Gm] gonna take my shot.
[Bb] I'm not gonna take my shot.
If it was [Cm] us, I'd have come free.
I'm young, spiky and loony.
And I'm not gonna take my [D] shot.
We gonna [Gm] rise up, I'm gonna take [G] a shot.
We gonna [Bb] rise up, I'm gonna take a shot.
We gonna [Cm] rise up, rise up.
It's time to take a shot.
[D] Rise up, rise up.
It's time to take a shot.
[Eb] Rise up, rise up.
It's time to take a shot.
_ [Bb] Rise up, rise up.
_ It's time to take a shot.
Rise up, rise up.
Throwing away my, throwing away my shot.
[Gm] _