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  1. Alexander Hamilton
    • -How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore
    • -Spot in the Caribbean
    • -The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father
    • -By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
    • -Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
    • -And he wrote his first refrain
    • -Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
    • -When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
    • -but his mother went quick
    • -Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide
    • -The bow of a ship headed for a new land
  2. Aaron Burr, Sir
    • -I wanted to do what you did. Graduate in two, then join the revolution.
  3. My Shot
    • -I’m ‘a get a scholarship to King’s College
    • -Only nineteen
    • -Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
    • -Yo, I’m a tailor’s apprentice
  4. The Story of Tonight
    • -But I will gladly join the fight!
  5. The Schuyler Sisters
    • -Take Philip Schuyler: the man is loaded
    • -I’m a trust fund
    • -Common Sense by Thomas Paine
  6. Farmer Refuted
    • -And I present “Free Thoughts on the
    • -Why should a tiny island across the sea regulate the price of tea?
  7. You'll Be Back
    • -The price of my love’s not a price that you’re willing to pay
    • -In your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by
    • -Remember we made an arrangement when you went away
    • -I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!
  8. Right Hand Man
    • -British Admiral Howe’s got troops on the water
    • -The venerated Virginian veteran
    • -Writin’ letters to relatives
    • -keep retreating?
    • -Yo, let’s steal their cannons—
    • -we’re abandonin’ Kips Bay
    • -We gotta run to Harlem quick
    • -I was a captain under General Montgomery
    • -Your excellency, you wanted to see me?
    • - Nathaniel Green and Henry Knox wanted to hire you…
    • -I’m working with a third of what our Congress has promised
    • -I’ll write to Congress and tell ‘em we need supplies,
    • -And his right hand man!
  9. A Winter's Ball
    • -Washington hires Hamilton right on sight
    • -Ladies!
    • -Martha Washington named her feral tomcat after him!
    • -And the Schuyler sisters are the envy of all
  10. Helpless
    • -I’m writin’ a letter nightly
    • -Laughin’ at my sister, cuz she wants to form a harem
    • -While you’re asking for his blessin’
    • -Eliza, I don’t have a dollar to my name
    • -Peggy confides in me,
  11. Satisfied
    • -I know my sister like I know my own mind
  12. The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
    • -Congrats to you, Lieutenant Colonel
    • -She’s married to a British officer
  13. Wait for It
    • -He's on the British side in Georgia
    • -My grandfather was a fire and brimstone preacher
    • -My father commanded respect
    • -Just a legacy to protect
  14. Stay Alive
    • -I have taken over writing all his correspondence
    • -They only take British money,
    • -I go back to New York and my apprenticeship
    • -I ask for French aid,
    • -We write essays against slavery
    • -I’m a General. Whee!!!!
    • -He shits the bed at the Battle of Monmouth
    • -A thousand soldiers die in a hundred degree heat
    • -He started sayin’ this to anybody who would listen:
    • -go back to plantin’ tobacco in Mount Vernon
    • -Then I’ll do it
  15. Ten Duel Commandments
    • -But your man has to answer for his words, Burr
  16. Meet Me Inside
    • -You shot him in the side!
  17. Guns and Ships
    • -I go to France for more funds
    • -We rendezvous with Rochambeau, consolidate their gifts
    • -fluent in French
    • -I have soldiers that will yield for you
  18. History has its Eyes on You
    • -I led my men straight into a massacre
  19. Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
    • -I go back to France
    • -Take the bullets out your gun!
    • -The code word is ‘Rochambeau,’
    • -Lafayette is there waiting—
    • -A tailor spyin’ on the British government!
    • -I’m runnin’ with the Sons of Liberty
    • -We lower our guns as he frantically waves a white handkerchief
    • -We negotiate the terms of surrender
  20. What Comes Next?
    • -The price of my war’s not a price that they’re willing to pay
    • -You cheat with the French, now I’m fighting with France and with Spain
  21. Dear Theodosia
    • -You have your mother’s name
    • -My son
  22. Tomorrow There'll Be More Of Us
    • -"On Tuesday the 27th, my son was killed in a gunfight against British troops retreating from South Carolina. The war was already over. As you know, John dreamed of emancipating and recruiting 3000 men for the first all-black military regiment. His dream of freedom for these men dies with him."
  23. Non-Stop
    • -I practiced law, Burr worked next door
    • -This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation
    • -I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention!
    • -Goes and proposes his own form of government!
    • -Talks for six hours!
    • -A series of essays, anonymously published
    • -Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote twenty-nine. Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one!
    • -They are asking me to lead
  24. What'd I Miss
    • -Washington's the President
    • -Pissed him off until we had a two-party system
    • -cause he's been kickin' ass as the ambassador to France
    • -I helped Lafayette draft a declaration
    • -Sally be a lamb
    • -I am to be the Secretary of State, great!
  25. Cabinet Battle #1
    • -Secretary Hamilton's plan to assume state debt and establish a national bank.
    • -Madison, you're mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine
  26. Take A Break
    • -But I'm crossing the ocean and I just can't wait
    • -You know I have to get my plan through Congress
  27. Say No to This
    • -That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into my life
    • -I gave her thirty bucks that I had socked away
    • -I said that last time. It became a pastime
    • -Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health
    • -Nobody needs to know
  28. The Room Where it Happens
    • -They renamed it after him. The Mercer legacy is secure
    • -Decisions are happening over dinner
    • -The room where it happened
  29. Schuyler Defeated
    • -"War hero Philip Schuyler loses senate seat to young upstart Aaron Burr"
  30. Cabinet Battle #2
    • -France is on the verge of war with England
    • -we signed a treaty
    • -We signed a treaty with a King whose head is now in a basket
    • -Draft a statement of neutrality
  31. Washington On Your Side
    • -Thanks to Hamilton, our cab’net’s fractured into factions
    • -Which I wrote
    • -I have to resign
  32. One Last Time
    • -I’m stepping down. I’m not running for President
    • -Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. I shall also carry with me
  33. I Know Him
    • -I know him
  34. The Adams Administration
    • -Protean creator of the Coast Guard
    • -Founder of the New York Post
    • -Jefferson’s the runner-up, which makes him the Vice President
    • -Hamilton publishes his response
  35. We Know
    • -Reynolds extorted me
  36. Hurricane
    • -I wrote my way out
    • -The Reynolds Pamphlet
  37. The Reynolds Pamphlet
    • -And he wrote it down right there
    • -With his knowing consent
  38. Blow Us All Away
    • -Meet the latest graduate of King's College!
    • -He disparaged my father's legacy in front of a crowd
    • -Across the river, in Jersey
    • -When the time comes, fire your weapon in the air
  39. Stay Alive (Reprise)
    • -Mr. Hamilton, come in. They brought him in a half an hour ago. He lost a lot of blood on the way over.
    • -The bullet entered just above his hip
  40. It's Quiet Uptown
    • -I take the children to church on Sunday
    • -Forgiveness. Can you imagine?
  41. The Election of 1800
    • -John Adams shat the bed. I love the guy, but he's in traction
    • -You're openly campaigning?
    • -Jefferson has my vote
    • -Yeah, you know what? We can change that.
  42. Your Obedient Servant
    • -Dear Alexander:
    • -Weehawken. Dawn
  43. Best of Wives and Best of Women
    • -I know. I just need to write something down
  44. The World Was Wide Enough
    • -My friend, William P. Van Ness signed on as my—
    • -Nathaniel Pendleton and a doctor that he knew
    • -Hamilton was wearing his glasses
    • -I strike him right between his ribs
    • -I walk towards him, but I am ushered away
    • -Were both at his side when he died
    • -Now I’m the villain in your history
  45. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
    • -I couldn't undo it if I tried
    • -I live another fifty years
    • -She is buried in Trinity Church
    • -I raise funds in D.C. for the Washington Monument
    • -I established the first private orphanage in New York City
    • -Oh, I can't wait to see you again
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