Chords for Hamilton: Hurricane

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In the eye of a hurricane there is [G] quiet, _ [Dm] but just a moment, _ [G] a yellow sky.
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When I was seventeen a hurricane [C] destroyed [E] my town.
[Dm] I didn't growl.
_ [G] I couldn't seem to die.
I [F] wrote my way out, _ wrote everything down far as [Dm] I could see.
_ I wrote [F] my way out.
I looked up and the town had its eyes on [C] me.
We passed a [Dm] plate around and total [C] _ strangers [F] moved kindness by [D] my story.
[G] _ [Dm] Raised enough for me to book passage on a ship that [C] was New York bound.
[D] I wrote my way out of [G] hell.
I wrote my way to revolution.
I was louder than the crack [D] in the bell.
I wrote [F] Eliza love letters until she fell.
I [A] wrote about the Constitution and [D] defended it well.
And in the [F] face of ignorance [G] and resistance I wrote my ancient systems into existence.
[Am] And when my prayers to God were met with indifference, [F] I picked up a pen and I wrote my own [Dm] deliverance.
In the eye of a [C] hurricane [G] there is quiet, but [Dm] just a moment, _ [C]
a [G] yellow sky.
_ [Dm] I was twelve when my [C] mother died.
[G] She was holding me.
We were sick [Dm] and she was holding me.
[C] I [G] couldn't seem to die.
[Dm] Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.
I'll write my [E] way out.
_ [Bb] Write everything down far as I [A] can see.
Wait for it, wait for it, [Dm] wait for it.
I'll write my way out.
[Dm] _
Overwhelm them with honesty.
This is the eye of the hurricane.
This [G] is the only way I can protect my legacy.
[E] Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait.
[Gm] The Reynolds