Hamilton: My Shot Chords

[Gm] I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Yo, I'm just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, and I'm [Eb] not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I'ma get a scholarship to King's College.
[F] I probably [Bb] shouldn't brag, but dag, I may as well astonish.
The problem [Cm] is a lot, a lot of brains, but no polish.
[Dm] A lot of [Ebm] holler just to be heard with every word.
[G] I drop knowledge.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a [Dm] shining piece of [Bb] gold.
Trying to reach my goal,
my power of [G] speech unimpeachable.
[Cm] Only 19, but my mind is older.
These New [D] York City streets get
cold.
I shoulder [G] every burden, every disadvantage.
[A] I've learned to [Bb] manage.
I don't have a gun to
brandish.
I walk these streets [C] famished.
The plan is to fan this fuck [D] into a [Cm] flame, but damn, [D] it's
getting hot, so let me spell out the name.
[Gm] I am the A-N-E-X-A [F]-N [Bb]-D-E-R.
We are meant to be [Cm] a colony
that runs independently.
Meanwhile, [D] Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly.
[G] Essentially, it's access
[Bb] relentlessly.
Then King George turns around, runs a [Bm] suspended spree.
[Cm] He ain't never gonna set his
descendants free, so there will [D] be a revolution in this [Gbm] century.
[G] Enter me.
He stares in [Bb] parentheses.
Don't be shocked when your history book [Bm] mentions me.
[Cm] I will lay down my life if it [Eb] sets us free.
Eventually, you'll [D] see my ascendancy, [Gm] and I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my
[G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, you're just [Am] like my country.
I'm young, [Dm] scrappy, and [Eb] hungry, and I'm not throwing away [D] my
shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, you're just [Am] like my
[Bb] country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, [Cm] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I dream of [A] life without
an [Bb] anarchy.
The unrest [Bm] in France will lead to [C] anarchy.
Anarchy, how you say?
How you say?
Oh, anarchy.
When I try [D] to make the other side [Gm] anarchy with my shot.
Yo, I'm a [A] tailor's apprentice,
[Bbm] and I got child look-a-heads and local [B]
[C] parentis.
I'm truing another rebellion,
because I know it's my chance to socially advance.
Instead of sewing some pants, [Gm] I'm gonna take a shot.
And but we'll never [A] be truly [Bb] free until those in [C] bondage have the same rights as you and me.
You and I do or die.
Wait till [Eb] I sally in on a [Am] stallion with the first black [G] battalion.
[Gm] Have another shot.
Geniuses, lower [F] your voices.
[Bb] You keep out of trouble, and you double your [Cm] choices.
I'm with you,
but the [Dm] situation is [Cm] fraught.
You've [D] got to be carefully taught.
[Gm] If you talk, you're gonna get shot.
Bird, check [Bb] what we got.
Mr.
Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot.
[Cm] I think your pants look hot.
Lawrence, I like you a lot.
Let's hatch a [D] plot.
Blacker than the kettle call in the pot.
[Gm] What are
the odds that God will put us [Dm] all in one spot?
[Bb] Hop in a squad and conventional wisdom, [G] like it or not.
[Cm] A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists.
Give me a position.
[F] Show me where the ammunition [Gm] 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 crowd.
//I am not throwin away _ [Bb] _ _ my [Cm] shot펑
ay yo i'm dressed like my country
i'm not scrappy and groovy
and i'm not throwing [D] away my shot
[Gm] i'm not throwing away [F] my shot
[Bb] _ _ _
[Cm] ay yo i'm dressed like my country
I'm not scrappy, I'm ugly, and I'm not throwing [D] away my shot Everybody [Gm] sing!
Woah, woah, woah!
[Bb] _ _ Woah, [Eb] woah, woah!
Woah, [D] woah, woah!
Let em [Gm] hear ya!
Woah, woah, woah!
_ [Bb] _ Woah, [Eb] woah, woah!
Woah, woah, woah!
Woah, woah, [C] woah!
Woah, [D] woah, woah!
[Gm] Rise up, when you're [Am] living on your [Bb] knees, you rise up
Tell your [D] brother that [Eb] he's gotta rise up
Tell your [F] sister that [Gb] she's gotta [D] rise up
When are [Bb] these colonies [Gm] gonna rise up?
When are [Dm] these colonies [Bb] gonna rise up?
When are [Cm] these colonies gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna [D] rise up?
When are these colonies gonna rise up? Rise up!
I [Gm] imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When's [Bb] it gonna get me?
In [Gm] my sleep, seven feet ahead of me
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let [D] it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, [Gm] I never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I [Bb] come from, some get half as many
[Eb] Ask anybody why we're living fast
Can we laugh, reach for [D] a glass?
We have to make this moment last
That's [Gm] plenty, scratch that, this is not a [A] moment
It's the [Bb] movement where all the hungriest brothers
With something to [Eb] prove went
Foes oppose us, we take an [D] honest stand
We roll like Moses, claiming our [Gm] promised 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 [D] an 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 [C] reading and writing
We need to handle our financial [Eb] situation
Are we [Gb] a nation of [D] states?
What's the [Gm] state of our nation?
A past patiently waiting, a [Bb] passion, a dispassion
Every expectation, every action to [Cm] enact the [Dm] creation
I'm laughing in the face of casualties, [F] of sorrow
[D] For the first [Gm] time I'm thinking past tomorrow
And I am not throwing away my [F] shot
[Bb] I am not throwing away my shot
[Cm] Ayo, I'm just a swine, my country, I'm young, scrappy
And hungry, and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot
We [Gm] don't need to be afraid
_ _ [F] [Bb] We're gonna rise up
Ain't time to take a [Gm] shot
[Cm] We're gonna rise up
It's time to take a [Gm] shot Rise up
It's time to take a [Eb] shot
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _
And [D] _ _ _ I am not throwing away my shot
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _