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Read All The Lyrics To The ‘Hamilton’ Original Broadway Cast Recording
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A filmed version of the Broadway musical recently premiered on Disney+.
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Alexander Hamilton
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Hamilton does not have an overture. There are eleven notes of orchestral introduction in Hamilton: seven rhythmic orchestral notes in the rhythmic motif of “not throwing away my
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – My Shot
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After Alexander Hamilton moves to New York, he searches for a thing to be a part of. He soon joins the movement for United States independence where he meets some of the characters
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Stay Alive (Reprise)
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“Stay Alive (Reprise)” covers the time between the moment Philip is shot in his duel and the moment he dies. It gives a transition between “Blow Us All Away” which examines Philip’
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Thayne Jasperson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Farmer Refuted
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Alexander Hamilton confronts a loyalist publicly advocating against the American Revolution.
The scene is inspired by a series of anonymous letters to newspapers in New England
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
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This song captures the events that occurred during the Battle of Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. These events are covered in Chernow’s biography on pages
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Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – History Has Its Eyes on You
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In this song, Washington tells Hamilton what the show he’s starring in is all about. During this scene, Washington hands Hamilton a sword, a symbol of his promotion to his command
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – The Adams Administration
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After Washington retires, Hamilton’s political fortunes start to fade. He gets into a fight with President John Adams, despite being in the same political party, and that’s
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Renée Elise Goldsberry – Satisfied
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“Satisfied” — whose lines and title draw inspiration from an actual letter Angelica wrote to Hamilton — reinforces one of the most important themes of Hamilton, that our
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Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Hurricane
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Hamilton’s reflection on his tenuous situation derails him, and causes him to publish an admission to adultery.
This song has some of the most beautiful staging and lighting in
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Jonathan Groff & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – You'll Be Back
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This song, framed as a letter from King George to the colonists, is a kind of extended double entendre. It addresses the grievances of the colonists and asserts George’s authority
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Phillipa Soo & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Helpless
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Continuing on in the same vein as “The Schuyler Sisters,” Eliza here transforms into a full-fledged Beyoncé—frequently mimicking the superstar’s characteristic ways of singing
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Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon Rua, Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Ten Duel Commandments
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Hamilton, Laurens, Burr, and Lee recite a versified version of the code duello while preparing for a duel.
Title and style pays homage to “Ten Crack Commandments” by The Notorious
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Guns and Ships
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“Guns and Ships” holds the honor of being the fastest song in the fastest-paced musical theater production of all time (the whole show fits 20,000 words into 2.5 hours). According
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Stay Alive
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Historically, this song is out of place in the timeline given by the show. It jumps back almost three years from Hamilton’s wedding (1780) to the Continental Army’s winter at
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Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Right Hand Man
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This song dramatizes many elements of George Washington’s troubled New York Campaign, which leads to his fateful meeting with one Alexander Hamilton.
The beat, particularly when
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
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The cast and company return to usher in Eliza, who takes over for Burr and narrates the Afterword of our story. The play ends by asking the audience directly, “Who tells your story
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – The Room Where It Happens
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Here, Burr dramatically dishes on and reacts to the news of the “Dinner Table Bargain,” also known as the Compromise of 1790. 100% relatedly, this song has a terribly unsurprising
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Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" & Renée Elise Goldsberry – The Schuyler Sisters
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Referred to as the Destiny’s Child number of the musical, “The Schuyler Sisters” explosively introduces two of Hamilton’s major female players, Angelica and Eliza Schuyler… as well
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" & Renée Elise Goldsberry – Non-Stop
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The Act I finale covers Hamilton’s life from the end of the war to his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury. Burr watches in amazement as Hamilton becomes a leading lawyer
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – The Reynolds Pamphlet
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“The Reynolds Pamphlet” was a 95-page document written by Alexander Hamilton in response to allegations of corruption. He refuted these allegations, but in doing so, he publicly
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – A Winter's Ball
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“A Winter’s Ball” serves as a brief transition between Hamilton participating in the New York Campaign in “Right Hand Man,” and meeting his future wife Eliza Schuyler in “Helpless
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Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Wait For It
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This soliloquy is sung by Aaron Burr midway through the first act of the show.
The beat on the first half of the song closely resembles dancehall reggae; you can compare the
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" & Renée Elise Goldsberry – It's Quiet Uptown
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The Hamiltons grieve Philip’s death and slowly begin to put their lives back together in this moving treatise on grief, forgiveness, and by extension, humanity’s terrible and
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Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Washington On Your Side
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This song immediately follows Jefferson’s diss at the end of “Cabinet Battle #2.” It starts with Burr methodically talking almost as if he’s chanting, egging on Jefferson regarding
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Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – The Election of 1800
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The election of 1800 was bitter and contentious:
The period leading up to the election of 1800 became a witches' brew of personalities, innuendo, ideology, and rumor. Through
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Your Obedient Servant
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The title and refrain of this song are a reference to the real-life correspondence between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton that led to their famous duel. Each letter was signed:
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – The World Was Wide Enough
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In “The World Was Wide Enough,” Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr meet for the duel set up in “Your Obedient Servant” and Burr kills Hamilton.
The title and final line come from
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Alexander Hamilton (Instrumental)
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[Insrumental]
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – The Story of Tonight
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A leitmotif that repeats throughout the first act to unite Hamilton and his Revolutionary friends.
Thematically, this song is reminiscent of those other Revolutionary bros, Les
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Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – What'd I Miss
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Daveed Diggs’s Lafayette leaves for France in Act I, and he returns to the stage in Act II as Thomas Jefferson, who was absent for large swaths of the Revolution and the early
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Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sydney James Harcourt & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Say No to This
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Hamilton begins his disastrous affair with mega-vamp Maria Reynolds. For the first major sex scandal in the United States' political history, Lin-Manuel Miranda gives us a 90s slow
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Phillipa Soo – Burn
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In “Burn,” Eliza delivers her heartbroken response to the “Reynolds Pamphlet,” Hamilton’s public account of his affair. Eliza takes center stage with no ensemble backing and only
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – The Adams Administration - Cut Rap
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[ALEXANDER HAMILTON] / An open letter to the fat / Arrogant / Anti-charismatic national embarrassment / Known as President John Adams / [ENSABLE VOICE] / Shit / [ALEXANDER HAMILTON
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – Meet Me Inside
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If you needed reminding that Hamilton was barely out of his teens for the majority of the Revolution, here we have a very adolescent and daddy-issues-laden musical number.
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton (Ft. Renée Elise Goldsberry) – Congratulations
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HAMILTON: / Angelica... / ANGELICA: / Alexander... / Congratulations; / You've invented a new kind of stupid / A damage you can never undo / Kind of stupid / An open all the cages
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Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton – Washington on Your Side (Instrumental)
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[Instrumental]
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Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – One Last Time
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This song tells the story of Hamilton writing George Washington’s “Farewell Address,” his famous last statement of political thoughts published upon his decision to step down from
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