Lin-Manuel As Hamilton
Original Broadway Cast of Spamilton
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How does a whippersnapper student of rap
And a Latin, trapped in the middle of a Manhattan flat
Win Broadway accolades while other writers kiss the corporate dollar
Grow up to be a hip-hop op'ra scholar?
This blue-collar, shining beacon, Puerto Rican got a lot farther
By being a lot smarter
By stretching rhymes harder
By being a trend-starter
By fourteen, they placed him in a school with a music charter
And every day while shows were being slaughtered on Broadway
They played, he stayed away
He struggled, but in an odd way
Inside, he was longing to build a better Broadway
The brother was ready to cut clean in a Sweeney Todd way
His first hurricane came, and In the Heights the name
Our man wrote his future hit sitting on a train
Put a pencil to his temple and stuck it into his brain
And he wrote his first refrain while hollering out in pain
Well, the word got around, they said "this kid is insane, man"
On closer inspection, he's a salsa-hip-hop main man
Broadway's been less crappy since the happy day you came
And the world's gonna know your name
What's your game, man?
Lin-Manuel as Hamilton
That's me, I'm Lin-Manuel as Hamilton
And there's a million songs I haven't trashed
But just you wait, just you wait
When he was ten, he saw Camelot, it was hot
But then ten years later saw Spamelot and when Broadway was heading
Half dead, with a campus so thick, it looked sick
He swore he would fix it, but it wasn't so quick
He saw Little Mermaid, it made him think of suicide
Disney was nothing but [glue?] inside, he felt blue inside
A voice saying, "you gotta rap for yourself"
He started snapping and rapping every record on a shelf
Then he started taping and making mixes quite astute
After he read a book of great repute about the Constitution
Started working, perking, a hip-hop mixtape
He mixed up history and himself and now he can't escape
It's a half history book, half Aragon buy on
Now he's the future, he's a theater icon
He's half Hamilton, half can of cold spam
But in New York, he can be a real ham
In New York, you can be a real ham (Just you wait)
Or you can be a can of cold spam (Just you wait)
It's your choice, Hamilton, Hamlet, or ham
In New York (New York)
Just you wait!
Lin-Manuel as Hamilton! (He's a ham in Spamilton)
Fame is waiting in the wings for you
You may have left town, you must have needed some downtime
You left the show as Hamilton (you left the show as Hamilton)
But Spamilton clings to you
Do you know we misquote your name?
Do you know we rewrote your fame?
Your score will never be the same
Oh
The tiny doll we got from props is coming, can you spot him?
Forgive the flimsy plastic boat, our budget's at the bottom
The Barbie Lin-Manuel just fell?
Thank God somebody caught him
Me, I save his ass
Me, I give him sass
Me? I'm full of gas
Me? I'm the damn fool who slays him
Me? I'm the damn fool who plays him!
There's a dozen songs we haven't trashed
But just you wait!
Who is [?] man?
Lin-Manuel as Hamilton!