Hamilton - The Drarry Musical

3. My Shot

(By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lord and Commander of the cosmos )

[MALFOY]

I am not throwing away my shot!

I am not throwing away my shot!

Hey yo, I'm just like the Order

I'm young, cunning and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot!

I'm 'a get a scholarship to Hogwarts

I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dag, 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!

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal

Tryin' to reach my goal. My power of speech: unimpeachable

Only seventeen but my mind is older

These Hogwarts halls get colder, I shoulder

Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage

I have learned to manage, I don't have a wand to brandish

I walk these halls famished

The plan is to fan this rebel spark into a flame

But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out the name

I am the-

[MALFOY/KINGSLEY/THEO/NEVILLE]

D-R-A-C-O-we are-meant to be...

[MALFOY]

A new country that runs properly

Meanwhile, Voldemort keeps shittin' on us endlessly

Essentially, they attack us relentlessly

Then Voldemort turns around, orders a killing spree

He ain't ever gonna set our descendants free

So there will be a revolution in this century

Enter me!

[KINGSLEY/THEO/NEVILLE]

(He says in parentheses)

[MALFOY]

Don't be shocked when your hist'ry book mentions me

I will lay down my life if it sets us free

Eventually, you'll see my ascendancy

And I am not throwing away

My shot

I am not throwing away

My shot

Hey yo, I'm just like the Order

I'm young, cunning and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

[NEVILLE] My shot!

My shot!

And I'm not throwing away my shot.

[MALFOY/THEO/NEVILLE/KINGSLEY]

I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like the Order

I'm young, cunning and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

It's time to take a shot!

[KINGSLEY]

I dream of life without a tyranny

The unrest in Britain will lead to 'onarchy?

'Onarchy? How you say, how you say, 'anarchy?'

When I fight, I make the other side panicky

With my-

[MALFOY/NEVILLE/KINGSLEY/THEO]

Shot!

[THEO]

Yo, I'm a Potioneer's apprentice

And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis

I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance

To socially advance, instead of stewin' some brews!

I'm gonna take a-

[MALFOY/NEVILLE/KINGSLEY/THEO] 

Shot!

[NEVILLE]

But we'll never be truly free

Until those in our country have the same rights as you and me

You and I. Do or die. Wait till I sally in

On a stallion with the muggleborn battalion

Have another-

[MALFOY/NEVILLE/KINGSLEY/THEO]

Shot!

[POTTER]

Geniuses, lower your voices

You keep out of trouble and you double your choices

I'm with you, but the situation is fraught

You've got to be carefully taught first:

If you talk, you're gonna get shot!

[MALFOY]

Potter, check what we got

Mister Kingsley, hard rock like Lancelot

Neville, I like you a lot

I think your pants look hot

Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot...

What are the odds Merlin would put us all in one spot

Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not

A bunch of revolutionary pro-muggleborns?

Give me a position, show me where to attack!

Oh, am I talkin' too loud?

Sometimes I get over-excited, shoot off at the mouth

I never had a group of friends before

I promise that I'll make y'all proud

[NEVILLE]

Let's get this guy in front of a crowd

[MALFOY/NEVILLE/KINGSLEY/THEO/ENSEMBLE]

I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like the Order

I'm young, cunning and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like the Order

I'm young, cunning and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

[NEVILLE] Ev'rybody sing:

Whoa, whoa, whoa

Hey!

Whoa!

Wooh!!

Whoa!

Ay, let 'em hear ya!

Let's go!

I said shout it to the rooftops!

Said, to the rooftops!

Come on!

Come on, let's go! [MALFOY/KINGSLEY/THEO]

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Yea!

[COMPANY]

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Yea!

[NEVILLE]

Rise up!

When you're living on your knees, you rise up

Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up

Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up

[NEVILLE AND ENSEMBLE]

When are these constituencies gonna rise up?

[COMPANY]Rise up!

When are these constituencies gonna rise up?

Whoa! Whoa!

When are these constituencies gonna rise up?

Whoa!

Whoa!

Rise up!

When are these constituencies gonna rise up?

Whoa!

[MALFOY]

I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

When's it gonna get me?

In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?

If I see it comin', do I run or do I let it be?

Is it like a beat without a melody?

See, I never thought I'd live past twenty

Where I come from some get half as many

Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh, reach for a flask

We have to make this moment last, that's plenty

Scratch that

This is not a moment, it's the movement

Where all the hungriest brothers with

Something to prove went?

Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand

We roll like Merlin, claimin' our promised land

And? If we win our independence?

'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?

Or will the blood we shed begin an endless

Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?

I know the action in the street is excitin'

But Merlin, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'

I've been readin' 'n writin'

We need to handle our financial situation

Are we a nation of counties? What's the state of our nation?

I'm past patiently waitin'. I'm passionately

Smashin' every expectation

Every action's an act of creation!

I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow

For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow

[MALFOY AND COMPANY]

And I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo, I'm just like the Order

I'm young, cunning and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

[MALFOY/NEVILLE/KINGSLEY/THEO]

We're gonna rise up! Time to take a shot!

We're gonna rise up! Time to take a shot!

We're gonna

[MALFOY]

Time to take a shot!

[MALFOY/KINGSLEY/NEVILLE/THEO]

Time to take a shot!

Time to take a shot!

Take a shot!

Shot!

Shot!

A-yo it's

Time to take a shot!

Time to take a shot!

And I am-

[ENSEMBLE]

Not throwing away my shot

Not throwing away my shot

We're gonna

Rise up! Rise up! Rise up!

Rise up! Rise up! Rise up!

Ri- ri- ri-

Time to take a shot!

Time to take a shot!

And I am-

[MALFOY/KINGSLEY/THEO/NEVILLE]

Not throwin' away my-

COMPANY

Not throwin' away my shot!