Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Hamilton Polka , by - "Weird Al" Yankovic. Release date: 01.03.2018
Song language: English
The Hamilton Polka |
| How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a |
| Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten |
| Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor |
| Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? |
| The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father |
| Got a lot farther by working a lot harder |
| By being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter |
| By fourteen, they placed him in charge of the trading charter |
| Alexander Hamilton |
| My name is Alexander Hamilton |
| And there’s a million things I haven’t done |
| But just you wait, just you wait |
| Wait for it |
| Wait for it |
| Wait for it |
| Wait for it |
| I am the one thing in life I can control |
| Wait for it |
| Wait for it |
| Wait for it |
| Wait for it |
| I am inimitable |
| I am an original |
| And if there’s a reason I’m still alive |
| When so many have died |
| Then I’m willin' to— |
| I’m willing to |
| Work, work! |
| Angelica! |
| Work, work! |
| Eliza! |
| And Peggy— |
| Look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now! |
| History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be |
| In the greatest city |
| In the greatest city in the world! |
| The world turned upside down |
| The world turned upside down |
| The world turned upside down |
| The world turned upside down |
| Yeah, you’ll blow us all away |
| Oceans rise, empires fall |
| We have seen each other through it all |
| And when push comes to shove |
| I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love! |
| Da da da dat da dat da da da da ya da |
| Da da dat dat da da ya da! |
| No one else was in |
| The room where it happened |
| The room where it happened |
| The room where it happened |
| No one else was in |
| The room where it happened |
| The room where it happened |
| The room where it happened |
| No one really knows how the game is played |
| The art of the trade |
| How the sausage gets made |
| We just assume that it happens |
| But no one else is in the room where it happens |
| We are outgunned (What?) |
| Outmanned (What?) |
| Outnumbered |
| Outplanned |
| We gotta make an all out stand |
| Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man |
| Hamilton! |
| Sir, he knows what to do in a trench |
| Ingenuitive and fluent in French, I mean— |
| Hamilton! |
| Sir, you’re gonna have to use him eventually |
| What’s he gonna do on the bench? |
| I mean— |
| Hamilton! |
| No one has more resilience |
| Or matches my practical tactical brilliance— |
| Hamilton! |
| You wanna fight for your land back? |
| Hamilton! |
| I need my right hand man back! |
| Uh, get ya right hand man back |
| You know you gotta get ya right hand man back |
| I mean you gotta put some thought into the letter |
| But the sooner the better to get your right hand man back! |
| It must be nice, it must be nice |
| To have Washington on your side |
| It must be nice, it must be nice |
| To have Washington on your side |
| Look back at the Bill of Rights (Which I wrote!) |
| The ink hasn’t dried |
| It must be nice, it must be nice |
| To have Washington on your side— |
| Somebody has to stand up for the South! |
| Somebody has to stand up to his mouth! |
| If there’s a fire you’re trying to douse |
| You can’t put it out from inside the house |
| I’m in the cabinet, I am complicit in |
| Watching him grabbin' at power and kiss it |
| If Washington isn’t gon' listen |
| To disciplined dissidents, this is the difference: |
| This kid is out |
| In New York you can be a new man |
| How do you write like you’re running out of time? |
| Write day and night like you’re running out of time? |
| Ev’ry day you fight like you’re running out of time |
| Like you’re running out of time |
| Are you running out of time? |
| Let me tell you what I wish I’d known |
| When I was young and dreamed of glory |
| You have no control |
| Who lives, who dies, who tells your story |
| I know that we can win |
| I know that greatness lies in you |
| But remember from here on in |
| History has its eyes on you (Whoa…) |
| And I am not throwing away my shot |
| I am not throwing away my shot |
| Hey yo, I’m just like my country |
| I’m young, scrappy and hungry |
| And I’m not throwing away my shot |
| We gonna rise up, time to take a shot (Not throwing away my shot) |
| We gonna rise up, time to take a shot (Not throwing away my shot) |
| We’re gonna rise up, rise up! |
| (It's time to take a shot!) |
| Rise up, rise up! |
| And I am not throwing away my |
| Not throwing away my shot |
| There’s a million things I haven’t done |
| But just you wait (Just wait) |
| What’s your name, man? |
| Alexander (Hamilton) |
| Alexander (Hamilton) |
| Alexander (Hamilton) |
| Alexander |