My Shot Chords by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast Of Hamilton, Anthony Ramos
Tempo:
90.7 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
Gm
D
Cm
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Gm] I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, I want just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, and I'm not
throwing away [D] my shot.
I'ma [Gm] get a scholarship to King's College.
I [F] probably [Bb] shouldn't brag, but dag, I may seem astonished.
[G] The problem is [Cm] a lot, a lot of brains with no polish.
[Dm] I gotta [Ebm] holler just to be heard with every word.
I [G] drop knowledge.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shining [F] piece of coal,
[Bb] trying to reach my goal, no power of speech, [G]
unimpeachable.
Only [Cm] 19, but my mind is older.
These New [D] York City streets get cold.
I show that [G] every burden, every disadvantage,
[Am] I've learned to manage.
[Bb] I don't have a gun to brandish.
I walk these streets famished.
[C] The plan is to fan this spark [Dm] into a flame,
[Cm] but dammit's [D] getting dark, so let's spell out the name.
[Gm] I am the A-F-E-X-A [F]-M-D [Bb]-E-R.
We are meant to be a [Cm] colony that runs independently.
Meanwhile, [D] Britain keeps sitting on us endlessly.
[G] Essentially, it attacks us [D] relentlessly.
[Bb] Then King George turns around, runs a [Bm] spending spree.
[Cm] He ain't never gonna set his descendants free,
so there will be [D] a revolution in this century.
[G] Enter me.
He says in [A] parentheses.
[Bb] Don't be shocked when your history book [G] mentions me.
[C] I will lay down my life if it sets [Eb] us free.
Eventually, you'll see [D] my ascendancy,
[Gm] and I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, I'm just [Am] like my country.
I'm young, [D] scrappy, and hungry,
[Eb] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
Hey, [Cm] I'm just [Am] like my country.
[Bb] I'm young, scrappy, and hungry,
[Cm] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
You [Gm] know I'm sick of shock.
I dream of life [A] without [Bb] anarchy.
The unrest [Bm] in France will lead to anarchy.
Anarchy, how you say?
How you say? Anarchy.
When I fight, I make the other side [Gm] panicky with my shot.
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice,
[B] and I got child look-a-heads and local parentists.
[Gm] I'm trying to know the million,
because I know it's my chance to socially advance.
Instead of sewing some pants,
you're gonna take a shot.
And [D] but we'll never be truly free
[Bb] until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me.
You and I [G] do or die.
Wait till I sally in on a stallion
with the first black battalion [Gm] of another shot.
Geniuses, lower [F] your voices.
[Bb] You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices.
[Cm] I'm with you, but the situation [Dm] is [Cm] fraught.
You've got to be [D] carefully taught.
[Gm] If you talk, you're gonna get shot.
Bird, check [Bb] what we got.
Mr.
Lafayette, hard [Gm] rock like Lancelot.
[Cm] I think your pants look hot.
Lawrence, I like you a lot.
Let's have to plot [D] blacker than the kettle calling the pot.
[Gm] What are the odds that God will put us all in [F] one spot?
[Bb] Popping a swat on conventional wisdom, like [G] it or not.
[Cm] A bunch of revolutionary ammunition abolitionists.
Give me a position.
[N] Show me where the ammunition is.
Oh, am I talking too loud?
Sometimes I get overexcited.
Shoot off at the mouth.
I never had a group of friends before.
I promise that I'll make y'all proud.
Let's get this guy in front [Gm] of a crowd.
I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Just like my country, I'm not scratching, I'm hungry.
And I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away [F] my shot.
[Bb] I'm not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Just like my country, I'm not scratching.
I'm hungry and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
Everybody [Gm] sing!
[Bb] Whoa.
[Eb] Whoa.
[D] Let them hear [Gm] ya.
Let's go.
Yeah bah, bah, bah, bah I [Bb] say, shout it to them, teah
[Eb] To them, yeah [F] [C] Bah, c'mon
[D] C'mon, [Gm] let's go
Rise up, when you live [Am] on your knees [Bb] You rise up, tell your brother [D] that he's
[Eb] gotta rise up, tell your [F] sister that she's [Gb] gotta [D] rise up
When are these [Bb] colonies [Gm] gonna rise up?
When are these [Bb] colonies gonna rise up?
When are these [G] colonies [Cm] gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna [D] rise up?
Rise up!
I [Gm] imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
[Bb] When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it [D] be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I [Gm] never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come [Bb] from, some get half as many
Ask [Eb] anybody why we're living fast
And we laugh, reach for [D] a glass
We have to make this moment last
That's [Gm] plenty, and scratch that
This is not a moment, [A] it's the [Bb] movement
Where all the hungriest brothers were sucking to [Eb] prove
When foes oppose us, we take an [D] honest stand
We roll like Moses, claiming our [Gm] promised land
And if we win our [Bb] independence
That a guarantee of freedom for our [Eb] descendants
What will the blood we shed begin an [D] endless cycle of vengeance
And death with no [G] defendants
I know the action in the street is exciting
[Bb] But Jesus, between all the bleeding and fighting
I've been [C] reading and writing
We need to handle our financial [Eb] situation
Are we a [Gb] nation of [D] states?
What's the [Gm] state of our nation?
A past patiently waiting, [Bb] imagining, smashing
Every expectation, every action to [Cm] enact the creation
[Dm] I'm laughing in the face of casualties [D] and sorrow
For the first time [Gm] I'm thinking past tomorrow
And I am not pulling my [F] shot
[Bb] I did not pull away my shot
Ay [Cm] yo, when justice wins, my country am yokes
Crappy and hungry, I'm not pulling away [D] my shot
We [Gm] going to rise up.
We're not gonna wait in line to take a [F] shot
[Bb] We're gonna rise up.
Don't wait in line to take a shot
We [Cm] gonna rise up, rise up
It's time to take a [Gm] shot
Rise up, rise up
It's time to take a [Eb] shot
Rise up.
It's time to take a [Gm] shot
Rise up.
It's time to take a shot
Come on, let's go
Ay yo, [D] it's time to take a shot
It's time to take a shot
And I am not pulling away my
Not pulling away my shot
[Gm] [N]
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, I want just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, and I'm not
throwing away [D] my shot.
I'ma [Gm] get a scholarship to King's College.
I [F] probably [Bb] shouldn't brag, but dag, I may seem astonished.
[G] The problem is [Cm] a lot, a lot of brains with no polish.
[Dm] I gotta [Ebm] holler just to be heard with every word.
I [G] drop knowledge.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shining [F] piece of coal,
[Bb] trying to reach my goal, no power of speech, [G]
unimpeachable.
Only [Cm] 19, but my mind is older.
These New [D] York City streets get cold.
I show that [G] every burden, every disadvantage,
[Am] I've learned to manage.
[Bb] I don't have a gun to brandish.
I walk these streets famished.
[C] The plan is to fan this spark [Dm] into a flame,
[Cm] but dammit's [D] getting dark, so let's spell out the name.
[Gm] I am the A-F-E-X-A [F]-M-D [Bb]-E-R.
We are meant to be a [Cm] colony that runs independently.
Meanwhile, [D] Britain keeps sitting on us endlessly.
[G] Essentially, it attacks us [D] relentlessly.
[Bb] Then King George turns around, runs a [Bm] spending spree.
[Cm] He ain't never gonna set his descendants free,
so there will be [D] a revolution in this century.
[G] Enter me.
He says in [A] parentheses.
[Bb] Don't be shocked when your history book [G] mentions me.
[C] I will lay down my life if it sets [Eb] us free.
Eventually, you'll see [D] my ascendancy,
[Gm] and I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, I'm just [Am] like my country.
I'm young, [D] scrappy, and hungry,
[Eb] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
Hey, [Cm] I'm just [Am] like my country.
[Bb] I'm young, scrappy, and hungry,
[Cm] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
You [Gm] know I'm sick of shock.
I dream of life [A] without [Bb] anarchy.
The unrest [Bm] in France will lead to anarchy.
Anarchy, how you say?
How you say? Anarchy.
When I fight, I make the other side [Gm] panicky with my shot.
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice,
[B] and I got child look-a-heads and local parentists.
[Gm] I'm trying to know the million,
because I know it's my chance to socially advance.
Instead of sewing some pants,
you're gonna take a shot.
And [D] but we'll never be truly free
[Bb] until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me.
You and I [G] do or die.
Wait till I sally in on a stallion
with the first black battalion [Gm] of another shot.
Geniuses, lower [F] your voices.
[Bb] You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices.
[Cm] I'm with you, but the situation [Dm] is [Cm] fraught.
You've got to be [D] carefully taught.
[Gm] If you talk, you're gonna get shot.
Bird, check [Bb] what we got.
Mr.
Lafayette, hard [Gm] rock like Lancelot.
[Cm] I think your pants look hot.
Lawrence, I like you a lot.
Let's have to plot [D] blacker than the kettle calling the pot.
[Gm] What are the odds that God will put us all in [F] one spot?
[Bb] Popping a swat on conventional wisdom, like [G] it or not.
[Cm] A bunch of revolutionary ammunition abolitionists.
Give me a position.
[N] Show me where the ammunition is.
Oh, am I talking too loud?
Sometimes I get overexcited.
Shoot off at the mouth.
I never had a group of friends before.
I promise that I'll make y'all proud.
Let's get this guy in front [Gm] of a crowd.
I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Just like my country, I'm not scratching, I'm hungry.
And I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away [F] my shot.
[Bb] I'm not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Just like my country, I'm not scratching.
I'm hungry and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
Everybody [Gm] sing!
[Bb] Whoa.
[Eb] Whoa.
[D] Let them hear [Gm] ya.
Let's go.
Yeah bah, bah, bah, bah I [Bb] say, shout it to them, teah
[Eb] To them, yeah [F] [C] Bah, c'mon
[D] C'mon, [Gm] let's go
Rise up, when you live [Am] on your knees [Bb] You rise up, tell your brother [D] that he's
[Eb] gotta rise up, tell your [F] sister that she's [Gb] gotta [D] rise up
When are these [Bb] colonies [Gm] gonna rise up?
When are these [Bb] colonies gonna rise up?
When are these [G] colonies [Cm] gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna [D] rise up?
Rise up!
I [Gm] imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
[Bb] When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it [D] be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I [Gm] never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come [Bb] from, some get half as many
Ask [Eb] anybody why we're living fast
And we laugh, reach for [D] a glass
We have to make this moment last
That's [Gm] plenty, and scratch that
This is not a moment, [A] it's the [Bb] movement
Where all the hungriest brothers were sucking to [Eb] prove
When foes oppose us, we take an [D] honest stand
We roll like Moses, claiming our [Gm] promised land
And if we win our [Bb] independence
That a guarantee of freedom for our [Eb] descendants
What will the blood we shed begin an [D] endless cycle of vengeance
And death with no [G] defendants
I know the action in the street is exciting
[Bb] But Jesus, between all the bleeding and fighting
I've been [C] reading and writing
We need to handle our financial [Eb] situation
Are we a [Gb] nation of [D] states?
What's the [Gm] state of our nation?
A past patiently waiting, [Bb] imagining, smashing
Every expectation, every action to [Cm] enact the creation
[Dm] I'm laughing in the face of casualties [D] and sorrow
For the first time [Gm] I'm thinking past tomorrow
And I am not pulling my [F] shot
[Bb] I did not pull away my shot
Ay [Cm] yo, when justice wins, my country am yokes
Crappy and hungry, I'm not pulling away [D] my shot
We [Gm] going to rise up.
We're not gonna wait in line to take a [F] shot
[Bb] We're gonna rise up.
Don't wait in line to take a shot
We [Cm] gonna rise up, rise up
It's time to take a [Gm] shot
Rise up, rise up
It's time to take a [Eb] shot
Rise up.
It's time to take a [Gm] shot
Rise up.
It's time to take a shot
Come on, let's go
Ay yo, [D] it's time to take a shot
It's time to take a shot
And I am not pulling away my
Not pulling away my shot
[Gm] [N]
Key:
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Bb
Gm
D
[Gm] I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, I want just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, and I'm not
throwing away [D] my shot.
I'ma [Gm] get a scholarship to King's College.
I [F] probably [Bb] shouldn't brag, but dag, I may seem astonished.
[G] The problem is [Cm] a lot, a lot of brains with no polish.
[Dm] I gotta [Ebm] holler just to be heard with every word.
I [G] drop knowledge.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shining [F] piece of coal,
[Bb] trying to reach my goal, no power of speech, [G]
unimpeachable.
Only [Cm] 19, but my mind is older.
These New [D] York City streets get cold.
I show that [G] every burden, every disadvantage,
[Am] I've learned to manage.
[Bb] I don't have a gun to brandish.
I walk these streets famished.
[C] The plan is to fan this spark [Dm] into a flame,
[Cm] but dammit's [D] getting dark, so let's spell out the name.
[Gm] I am the A-F-E-X-A [F]-M-D [Bb]-E-R.
We are meant to be a [Cm] colony that runs independently.
Meanwhile, [D] Britain keeps sitting on us endlessly.
[G] Essentially, it attacks us [D] relentlessly.
[Bb] Then King George turns around, runs a [Bm] spending spree.
[Cm] He ain't never gonna set his descendants free,
so there will be [D] a revolution in this century.
[G] Enter me.
He says in [A] parentheses.
[Bb] Don't be shocked when your history book [G] mentions me.
[C] I will lay down my life if it sets [Eb] us free.
Eventually, you'll see [D] my ascendancy,
[Gm] and I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, I'm just [Am] like my country.
I'm young, [D] scrappy, and hungry,
[Eb] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
Hey, [Cm] I'm just [Am] like my country.
[Bb] I'm young, scrappy, and hungry,
[Cm] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
You [Gm] know I'm sick of shock.
I dream of life [A] without [Bb] anarchy.
The unrest [Bm] in France will lead to anarchy.
Anarchy, how you say?
How you say? Anarchy.
When I fight, I make the other side [Gm] panicky with my shot.
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice,
[B] and I got child look-a-heads and local parentists.
[Gm] I'm trying to know the million,
because I know it's my chance to socially advance.
Instead of sewing some pants,
you're gonna take a shot.
And [D] but we'll never be truly free
[Bb] until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me.
You and I [G] do or die.
Wait till I sally in on a stallion
with the first black battalion [Gm] of another shot.
Geniuses, lower [F] your voices.
[Bb] You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices.
[Cm] I'm with you, but the situation [Dm] is [Cm] fraught.
You've got to be [D] carefully taught.
[Gm] If you talk, you're gonna get shot.
Bird, check [Bb] what we got.
Mr.
Lafayette, hard [Gm] rock like Lancelot.
[Cm] I think your pants look hot.
Lawrence, I like you a lot.
Let's have to plot [D] blacker than the kettle calling the pot.
[Gm] What are the odds that God will put us all in [F] one spot?
[Bb] Popping a swat on conventional wisdom, like [G] it or not.
[Cm] A bunch of revolutionary ammunition abolitionists.
Give me a position.
[N] Show me where the ammunition is.
Oh, am I talking too loud?
Sometimes I get overexcited.
Shoot off at the mouth.
I never had a group of friends before.
I promise that I'll make y'all proud.
Let's get this guy in front [Gm] of a crowd.
I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Just like my country, I'm not scratching, I'm hungry.
And I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away [F] my shot.
[Bb] I'm not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Just like my country, I'm not scratching.
I'm hungry and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
Everybody [Gm] sing!
_ _ _ [Bb] _ Whoa. _
[Eb] _ Whoa.
_ [D] Let them hear [Gm] ya.
Let's go.
Yeah bah, bah, bah, bah I [Bb] say, shout it to them, teah
[Eb] To them, yeah [F] [C] Bah, c'mon
[D] C'mon, [Gm] let's go
Rise up, when you live [Am] on your knees [Bb] You rise up, tell your brother [D] that he's
[Eb] gotta rise up, tell your [F] sister that she's [Gb] gotta [D] rise up
When are these [Bb] colonies [Gm] gonna rise up?
When are these [Bb] colonies gonna rise up?
When are these [G] colonies [Cm] gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna [D] rise up?
Rise up!
I [Gm] imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
[Bb] When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it [D] be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I [Gm] never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come [Bb] from, some get half as many
Ask [Eb] anybody why we're living fast
And we laugh, reach for [D] a glass
We have to make this moment last
That's [Gm] plenty, and scratch that
This is not a moment, [A] it's the [Bb] movement
Where all the hungriest brothers were sucking to [Eb] prove
When foes oppose us, we take an [D] honest stand
We roll like Moses, claiming our [Gm] promised land
And if we win our [Bb] independence
That a guarantee of freedom for our [Eb] descendants
What will the blood we shed begin an [D] endless cycle of vengeance
And death with no [G] defendants
I know the action in the street is exciting
[Bb] But Jesus, between all the bleeding and fighting
I've been [C] reading and writing
We need to handle our financial [Eb] situation
Are we a [Gb] nation of [D] states?
What's the [Gm] state of our nation?
A past patiently waiting, [Bb] imagining, smashing
Every expectation, every action to [Cm] enact the creation
[Dm] I'm laughing in the face of casualties [D] and sorrow
For the first time [Gm] I'm thinking past tomorrow
And I am not pulling my [F] shot
[Bb] I did not pull away my shot
Ay [Cm] yo, when justice wins, my country am yokes
Crappy and hungry, I'm not pulling away [D] my shot
We [Gm] going to rise up.
We're not gonna wait in line to take a [F] shot
[Bb] We're gonna rise up.
Don't wait in line to take a shot
We [Cm] gonna rise up, rise up
It's time to take a [Gm] shot
Rise up, rise up
It's time to take a [Eb] shot
Rise up.
It's time to take a [Gm] shot
Rise up.
It's time to take a shot
Come on, let's go
Ay yo, [D] it's time to take a shot
It's time to take a shot
And I am not pulling away my
Not pulling away my shot
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, I want just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry, and I'm not
throwing away [D] my shot.
I'ma [Gm] get a scholarship to King's College.
I [F] probably [Bb] shouldn't brag, but dag, I may seem astonished.
[G] The problem is [Cm] a lot, a lot of brains with no polish.
[Dm] I gotta [Ebm] holler just to be heard with every word.
I [G] drop knowledge.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shining [F] piece of coal,
[Bb] trying to reach my goal, no power of speech, [G]
unimpeachable.
Only [Cm] 19, but my mind is older.
These New [D] York City streets get cold.
I show that [G] every burden, every disadvantage,
[Am] I've learned to manage.
[Bb] I don't have a gun to brandish.
I walk these streets famished.
[C] The plan is to fan this spark [Dm] into a flame,
[Cm] but dammit's [D] getting dark, so let's spell out the name.
[Gm] I am the A-F-E-X-A [F]-M-D [Bb]-E-R.
We are meant to be a [Cm] colony that runs independently.
Meanwhile, [D] Britain keeps sitting on us endlessly.
[G] Essentially, it attacks us [D] relentlessly.
[Bb] Then King George turns around, runs a [Bm] spending spree.
[Cm] He ain't never gonna set his descendants free,
so there will be [D] a revolution in this century.
[G] Enter me.
He says in [A] parentheses.
[Bb] Don't be shocked when your history book [G] mentions me.
[C] I will lay down my life if it sets [Eb] us free.
Eventually, you'll see [D] my ascendancy,
[Gm] and I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
[Cm] Hey, I'm just [Am] like my country.
I'm young, [D] scrappy, and hungry,
[Eb] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my [G] shot.
Hey, [Cm] I'm just [Am] like my country.
[Bb] I'm young, scrappy, and hungry,
[Cm] and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
You [Gm] know I'm sick of shock.
I dream of life [A] without [Bb] anarchy.
The unrest [Bm] in France will lead to anarchy.
Anarchy, how you say?
How you say? Anarchy.
When I fight, I make the other side [Gm] panicky with my shot.
Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice,
[B] and I got child look-a-heads and local parentists.
[Gm] I'm trying to know the million,
because I know it's my chance to socially advance.
Instead of sewing some pants,
you're gonna take a shot.
And [D] but we'll never be truly free
[Bb] until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me.
You and I [G] do or die.
Wait till I sally in on a stallion
with the first black battalion [Gm] of another shot.
Geniuses, lower [F] your voices.
[Bb] You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices.
[Cm] I'm with you, but the situation [Dm] is [Cm] fraught.
You've got to be [D] carefully taught.
[Gm] If you talk, you're gonna get shot.
Bird, check [Bb] what we got.
Mr.
Lafayette, hard [Gm] rock like Lancelot.
[Cm] I think your pants look hot.
Lawrence, I like you a lot.
Let's have to plot [D] blacker than the kettle calling the pot.
[Gm] What are the odds that God will put us all in [F] one spot?
[Bb] Popping a swat on conventional wisdom, like [G] it or not.
[Cm] A bunch of revolutionary ammunition abolitionists.
Give me a position.
[N] Show me where the ammunition is.
Oh, am I talking too loud?
Sometimes I get overexcited.
Shoot off at the mouth.
I never had a group of friends before.
I promise that I'll make y'all proud.
Let's get this guy in front [Gm] of a crowd.
I am not throwing away my [F] shot.
[Bb] I am not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Just like my country, I'm not scratching, I'm hungry.
And I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
[Gm] I am not throwing away [F] my shot.
[Bb] I'm not throwing away my shot.
[Cm] Just like my country, I'm not scratching.
I'm hungry and I'm not throwing away [D] my shot.
Everybody [Gm] sing!
_ _ _ [Bb] _ Whoa. _
[Eb] _ Whoa.
_ [D] Let them hear [Gm] ya.
Let's go.
Yeah bah, bah, bah, bah I [Bb] say, shout it to them, teah
[Eb] To them, yeah [F] [C] Bah, c'mon
[D] C'mon, [Gm] let's go
Rise up, when you live [Am] on your knees [Bb] You rise up, tell your brother [D] that he's
[Eb] gotta rise up, tell your [F] sister that she's [Gb] gotta [D] rise up
When are these [Bb] colonies [Gm] gonna rise up?
When are these [Bb] colonies gonna rise up?
When are these [G] colonies [Cm] gonna rise up?
When are these colonies gonna [D] rise up?
Rise up!
I [Gm] imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
[Bb] When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me
If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it [D] be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I [Gm] never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come [Bb] from, some get half as many
Ask [Eb] anybody why we're living fast
And we laugh, reach for [D] a glass
We have to make this moment last
That's [Gm] plenty, and scratch that
This is not a moment, [A] it's the [Bb] movement
Where all the hungriest brothers were sucking to [Eb] prove
When foes oppose us, we take an [D] honest stand
We roll like Moses, claiming our [Gm] promised land
And if we win our [Bb] independence
That a guarantee of freedom for our [Eb] descendants
What will the blood we shed begin an [D] endless cycle of vengeance
And death with no [G] defendants
I know the action in the street is exciting
[Bb] But Jesus, between all the bleeding and fighting
I've been [C] reading and writing
We need to handle our financial [Eb] situation
Are we a [Gb] nation of [D] states?
What's the [Gm] state of our nation?
A past patiently waiting, [Bb] imagining, smashing
Every expectation, every action to [Cm] enact the creation
[Dm] I'm laughing in the face of casualties [D] and sorrow
For the first time [Gm] I'm thinking past tomorrow
And I am not pulling my [F] shot
[Bb] I did not pull away my shot
Ay [Cm] yo, when justice wins, my country am yokes
Crappy and hungry, I'm not pulling away [D] my shot
We [Gm] going to rise up.
We're not gonna wait in line to take a [F] shot
[Bb] We're gonna rise up.
Don't wait in line to take a shot
We [Cm] gonna rise up, rise up
It's time to take a [Gm] shot
Rise up, rise up
It's time to take a [Eb] shot
Rise up.
It's time to take a [Gm] shot
Rise up.
It's time to take a shot
Come on, let's go
Ay yo, [D] it's time to take a shot
It's time to take a shot
And I am not pulling away my
Not pulling away my shot
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
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