hermione13 Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on The bow of a ship headed for the new land In New York you can be a new man
@vballbai without a sense of restitution started working clerking for his late mother’s land lord trading sugar cane and rum and all those things he can’t afford
@twirler_03 but ruined pride, somethin new inside a voice sayin Alex you gotta fend for yourself started retreating and reading every treatise on the shelf
@twirler_03 I think this is the right word. When he was ten his father split full of it debt riden to years later see Alex and his mother bed riden half dead Sitin it their rooms sick the sent think well Alex got better but his mother went quick
@Button_20@Puppys Then a hurricane came and devastation reigned our man saw his future drip, drip, dripping down the drain. Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain and he write his first refrain, a testament to his pain
@Button_20 and every day while slaves where being slaughtered and carted away he struggled and kept his guard up inside he was longing for something to be apart of the brother was ready to beg steal or barder
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
