The HamilTEN Megamix (Live at the 2025 Tony Awards, Radio City Music Hall, New York City)

After the war I went back to New York
After the war I went back to New York
I finished up my studies and I practiced law
I practiced law, Burr worked next door
Even though we started at the very same time
Alexander Hamilton began to climb
How to account for his rise to the top?
Man, the man is nonstop

I'ma get a scholarship to King's College
I probably should brag, but dang, I amaze and astonish
The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish
I gotta holler just to be heard with every word I drop knowledge
Yeah, I'm fast, patiently waitin'
I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
Every accent and act of creation
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time I'm thinkin' past tomorrow

And I am not throwin' away my shot
I am not throwin' away my shot
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my
Not throwin' away my shot

Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now
Look around, 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 world
In the greatest city in the world

Work, work
Angelica
Work, work
Eliza
And Peggy

The Schuyler sisters
Work, work
We're looking for a mind at work
Work, work
Hey
Work, work
Hey
Work, work
Hey

Work, work
In the greatest city
In the greatest city in the world

In the greatest city in the world

I'm takin' this course by the reins
Makin' a red coat redder with bloodstains
And I never wanna stop until I make 'em drop
And burn 'em off and scatter their remains
I watch me engage and I'm escapin' 'em, enragin' 'em
I— no one has more resilience or matches my practical, tactical genius

Really?

Da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-day-ya-da
Da-da-da-da-day-ya-da
Da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-day-ya-da
Da-da-da
Everybody

Da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-day-ya-da
Da-da-da-da-day-ya-da
We had a spy on the inside
That's right, Hercules Mulligan

I deal with spying on the British government
I take the facts and the information and then I smuggle it
To my brother's revolutionary covenant
I'm runnin' with the sons of liberty and I am lovin' it
See, that's what happens when you up against the rusty hands
Begin it, now somebody's gotta shovel it
Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction
When you knock me down, I get back up again

The world turned upside

I, I wanna be in the room where it happens
The room where it happens
I, I wanna be in the room where it happens
The room where it happens
Oh, I wanna be, I wanna be in
I wanna be in
I got to be, I got to be in the room where it happens
The room where it happens

We dream of a brand new start
But we dream in the dark for the most part
Dark as a tomb where it happens
I gotta be, I gotta be in the
I wanna be in the room where it happens
Kaboom

Let me tell you what I wish I'd known
When I was young and dreams 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

Why do you write like you're running out of time?
You could die, you could be killed by a gun
People never look inside your mind
They just see the surface, the outside
History has its eyes on you
Why do you write like
History has its eyes on you

I am not throwin' away my shot
How you not throwin' away my
Just you wait
How you not throwin' away my
Just you wait
Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton, just you wait
I am not throwin' away my shot