Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Hamilton Polka, artist - "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Date of issue: 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 |