Chords for Hamilton Highlights, arr. Lisa DeSpain – Score & Sound

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_ [Bm] _ I am not throwing away my shot.
[D#m] I am not throwing away my shot.
I [G] am not throwing away my shot.
_ [D] I am not throwing away [F#] my shot.
What's your [Bm] name, man?
Alexander Hamilton!
_ We [G] are waiting in the wings for you.
[Em] You've been never back down,
you've never learned to [F#m] take your _ [F#] time.
Oh, [Bm] Alexander Hamilton,
_ [G] when America sings for you,
[E] will they know what you _ [Bm] [G] overcame?
Will they [D] know you erupt again?
[F#m] The world will [G] never _ [D]
be the [F#] same.
[D] You'll be back, soon you'll see.
You'll [G] remember you belong to [Em] me.
[D] You'll be back, time will tell.
You'll [G] remember that I served you well.
[Bm] Oceans rise, [D] empires fall.
We [G] have seen each other through [Gm] it all.
And when [Bm] push comes to [D] shove,
I [G] will send a fully armed battalion
to remind you of [D] my love.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [E] _ La, la, [Dm] la, la, la, la, la, [G] la, la, la, la.
_ [Gm] _ Everybody!
[Bm] _
_ [D] Jellica!
_ _ [Bm] Eliza!
Peggy!
The Sky and [D] her sisters!
Jellica, Peggy, Eliza! _
[B] Daddy said to be home by sundown.
Daddy doesn't need to know.
[B]
Daddy said not to go [A] downtown.
Like I said, you're free to [Bm] go.
Look around, look around, the revolution's [G] happening in New _ [F#m] York, in New York.
[Bm] We hold these truths to be self [D]-evident, that all men are created equal.
[G] Look around, look [F#m] around, at how lucky we are to be alive [Em] right now.
History is happening [C#] in Manhattan, [F#m] and we just happen to [G] be
in the greatest city, in the greatest [Bm] city, in the greatest city in the [D] world. _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ Wait [D] for it, wait for it, _
_ _ [F#m] _ wait [Bm] for it, wait for it.
Life doesn't discriminate between the [D] sinners and the saints.
It takes and it takes and it [Bm] takes and we keep living anyway.
We rise and we [G] fall and we break and we make our [Bm] mistakes.
And if there's a reason I'm still [D] alive when so many have died,
then [Bm] I'm willing to wait for it, wait for it, I'm willing to [E] wait for it.
_ _ [Bm] Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, [D] wait for it.
I am the one thing in life I [Bm] can't control.
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait [G] for it.
I am inimitable, I am an [B] original.
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait [D] for it.
Hamilton's face is relentless, he wastes [Bm] no time.
Wait for it, wait for it, wait [G] for it.
What is it like in his shoes?
[F#m] _ _
_ _ [Bm] No one else is in the room where [E] it happened.
In the room where it happened, the room [Bm] where it happened.
No one else [G] is in the room where it [Bm] happened.
In the room where it happened, [Gm] the room where it happened.
[Bm] No one really knows how the party's 50 years.
[E] The pieces that are [Bm] sacrificed in every game of chess.
[G] We just assume that it happened.
[A] And no one else is in the room [F#m] where it happened.
_ [Gm] _
_ [Bm] I gotta be in the room, I gotta be in the room where it [G] happened.
I wanna be in the room where it happened.
_ [D] Click, boom!
I am not throwin' away my shot.
I am not throwin' away my [A#] shot.
Hey, yo, [D] I'm just like my country.
[B] I'm young, scrappy, and hungry.
I am not throwin' away [E] my shot.
And I am [A] not throwin' away my shot.
I [C] am not throwin' away my shot.
[Dm] Hey, yo, I'm just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry.
And I'm [F] not throwin' away [E] my shot.
I [A] am not throwin' away my shot.
[C] I am not throwin' away my shot.
[Dm] We're gonna rise up, rise up.
[D] _ [Am] Rise up, rise up.
[F]
Rise up, time to take a shot.
Rise [G] up, time to take a shot.
Shot, [G#] shot, time to take a shot.
Time to take a shot.
I am not throwin' [E] away my, not throwin' away my [Am] shot. _ _ _ _ _ _
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