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How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman....
Song Chain!
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dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot
In the Caribbean -
By providence impoverished in squalor
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? -
The ten-dollar founding father without a father
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Got a lot farther by working a lot harder
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By being a lot smarter
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By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
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and every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the waves,
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he struggled and kept his guard up
Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of -
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow or barter
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Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
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our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain
put a pencil to his temple, -
connected it to his brain
And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain -
well the word got around, they said this kid is insane man
toke up a collection just to send him to the mainland -
Get your education, don't forget from whence you came
And the world is gonna know your name
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