Released: June 12, 2016
Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Producer: Lin-Manuel Miranda
This envelope says Lin, but it's not entirely Lin's
Cause when you work with Tommy Kail, the best idea wins
When Alex finds a place to cut, or Andy needs more bars
You can't think this is mine, you can only think this is ours
Is it 'are's or is it 'owr's, well it's hours of re-writing
You talk Burr with Oskar and Jeffrey and keep igniting
That spark into a flame, make a mark, arrange the frame
Hit your target and change the game, earn the hyphen in your name
You let Daveed Diggs turn your couplet into a triplet
You give him the mic, he grips it and spits it, rips it and flips it
You turn back to this envelope that says you win
You think about your father and how scared he must have been
When he came to New York City and he didn't speak the language
So you give Hamilton all his hunger, genius, and anguish
And you vanquish self-doubt by perfecting your lines of text
Then you call Tommy Kail and you say, "What's next?"
Thank you so much
Cause when you work with Tommy Kail, the best idea wins
When Alex finds a place to cut, or Andy needs more bars
You can't think this is mine, you can only think this is ours
Is it 'are's or is it 'owr's, well it's hours of re-writing
You talk Burr with Oskar and Jeffrey and keep igniting
That spark into a flame, make a mark, arrange the frame
Hit your target and change the game, earn the hyphen in your name
You let Daveed Diggs turn your couplet into a triplet
You give him the mic, he grips it and spits it, rips it and flips it
You turn back to this envelope that says you win
You think about your father and how scared he must have been
When he came to New York City and he didn't speak the language
So you give Hamilton all his hunger, genius, and anguish
And you vanquish self-doubt by perfecting your lines of text
Then you call Tommy Kail and you say, "What's next?"
Thank you so much
Hamilton Apocrypha
- The Hamilton Mixtape
- #Ham4Vote (Part 1)
- #Ham4Vote (Part 2)
- #Ham4Vote (Part 3)
- My Shot (SNL Opening Monologue Remix)
- The World Was Wide Enough (Broadway for Hillary Remix)
- #Ham4Ham: The Hamilton Mixtape Performance
- Say No To This (Draft 11.7.13)
- Your Obedient Servant (First Draft)
- Congratulations (Early Draft)
- The Story of Tonight (First Sketch)
- Guns & Ships (First Draft 2014)
- Right Hand Man (First Draft)
- Hamilton Principle Casting Changes
- Mulligan’s Goodbye
- Non-Stop, first draft
- I Have This Friend
- Redcoat Transition
- Ode to James Corden (Tony Awards 2016)
- The Hamilton Mixtape (Chris Hayes Excerpt)
- The Adams Administration (2014 Workshop)
- 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards - Cypher 4
- My Shot (demo)
- Tomorrow There’ll Be More of Us
- #HAM4HAM: The Hamilton Children
- Button!
- #HAM4HAM: Ja-Burr!
- Grammys 2016: Best Musical Theater Album Acceptance Speech
- Cabinet Battle #3
- A Chorus Line 40th Anniversary Tribute
- Easter Bonnet 2016: The Fleet Street Remix
- Satisfied (Demo)
- #HAM4HAM: The Tevye Sisters
- Tony Awards 2016: Best Score Acceptance Sonnet
- Tony Awards 2016: Best Book Acceptance Speech
- “Exit Music”
- In the Heights
- Congratulations (2014 Workshop)
- Breathe
- 96,000
- Carnaval del Barrio
- First Burn
- The Adams Administration (2014 Workshop)
- Blackout
- Almost Like Praying
- It Won’t Be Long Now
- The Hamilton Mixtape
- Benny’s Dispatch
- No Me Diga
- Tomorrow There’ll Be More of Us
- Sunrise
- What the Heck I Gotta Do
- When You’re Home
- Paciencia y Fe
- Finale
- The Club
- Dear Theodosia (Reprise)
- Champagne
- One Last Ride
- Everything I Know