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How does a b*stard, orphan, son of a wh*re, and a scotsman, dropped in the middle of 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, got a lot farther by working a lot harder
By being a lot smarter by being a self starter, by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
And every day while slaves we're being slaughtered and carted
Away across the waves he struggled to keep his guard up inside he was longing for something to be a part of…
The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter
The a hurricane came and devastation reigned our man saw his future drip, drippin’ down the drain