The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done), Production Company: DIKTATOR (2017)
Author: Director: Tomás Whitmore | Executive Producer: Ian Blair | Producer: Melora Donoghue | Director of Photography: Drew Bienemann | Production Company: DIKTATOR
Donoghue, Melora, and Ian Blair. The Hamilton Mixtape - Immigrants (We Get the Job Done). Vimeo, DIKTATOR, 28 June 2017, vimeo.com/223499510.
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You know, and it gets into this whole issue of border security
You know, who's gonna say that the borders are secure?
We've got the House and the Senate debating this issue
And it's, it's really astonishing that in a country founded by immigrants
"Immigrant" has somehow become a bad word
So the debate rages on and we continue
What they mean by this is that America was naturally the Native Americans home until the British colonies “found” it and drove natives out of there own home.
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And just like that it's over, we tend to our wounded, we count our dead
Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom
Not yet
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I got one job, two job, three when I need them
I got five roommates in this one studio, but I never really see them
And we all came America trying to get a lap dance from Lady Freedom
But now Lady Liberty is acting like Hilary Banks with a pre-nup
Man, I was brave, sailing on graves
Don't think I didn't notice those tombstones disguised as waves
I'm no dummy, here is something funny, you can be an immigrant without risking your lives
Or crossing these borders with thrifty supplies
All you got to do is see the world with new eyes
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Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
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Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants, we get the job done
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It's a hard line when you're an import
Baby boy, it's hard times
When you ain't sent for
Racists feed the belly of the beast
With they pitchforks, rich chores
Done by the people that get ignored
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Ya se armó
Ya se despertaron
It's a whole awakening
La alarma ya sonó hace rato
Los que quieren buscan
Pero nos apodan como vagos
We are the same ones
Hustling on every level
Ten los datos
Walk a mile in our shoes
Abróchense los zapatos
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I been scoping ya dudes, ya'll ain't been working like I do
I'll outwork you, it hurts you
You claim I'm stealing jobs though
Peter Piper claimed he picked them, he just underpaid Pablo
But there ain't a paper trail when you living in the shadows
We're America's ghost writers, the credit's only borrowed
It's a matter of time before the checks all come
But
A main issue that Americans have on immigrants is that they are afraid they might lose their jobs to them. This can be seen all the way back ti the great depression. since most immigrants aren’t legal large businesses don’t have to worry about paying them a lot for working.
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Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
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Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants, we get the job
Not yet
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The credit is only borrowed
It's America's ghost writers, the credit's only borrowed
It's America's ghost writers
America's ghost writers
America's ghost writers, the credit's only borrow-borrowed
It's America's ghost writers, a credit is only borrowed
It's America's ghost writers, a credit is only borrowed
It's America's ghost writers, a credit is only borrowed
It's
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Ay yo aye, immigrants we don't like that
Na they don't play British empire strikes back
They beating us like 808's and high hats
At our own game of invasion, but this ain't Iraq
Who these fugees what did they do for me
But contribute new dreams
Taxes and tools, swagger and food to eat
Cool, they flee war zones, but the problem ain't ours
Even if our bombs landed on them like the Mayflower
Buckingham Palace or Capitol Hill
Blood of my ancestors had that all built
It's the ink you print on your dollar bill, oil you spill
Thin red lines on the flag you hoist when you kill
But still we just say "look how far I come"
Hindustan, Pakistan, to London
To a galaxy far from their ignorance
'Cause
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Por tierra o por agua
Identidad falsa
Brincamos muros o flotamos en balsas
La peleamos como Sandino en Nicaragua
Somos como las plantas que crecen sin agua
Sin pasaporte americano
Porque la mitad de gringolandia es terreno mexicano
Hay que ser bien hijo de puta
Nosotros les sembramos el árbol y ellos se comen la frutas
Somos los que cruzaron
Aquí vinimos a buscar el oro que nos robaron
Tenemos mas trucos que la policía secreta
Metimos la casa completa en una maleta
Con un pico, una pala
Y un rastrillo
Te construimos un castillo
Como es que dice el coro cabrón?
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Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
We get the job done
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Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants, we get the job done
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Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Look how far I come
Immigrants, we get the job done
26 Songwriters: Keinan Abdi Warsame / Claudia Alexandra Feliciano / Rizwan Ahmed / René Pérez Joglar / Lin-Manuel Miranda / Jeffrey Penalva
27 Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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