BEGGARS
Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Look down, look down upon your fellow man

GAVROCHE
How do you do? My name's Gavroche
These are my people, here's my patch
Not much to look at, nothing posh
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch

This is my school, my high society
Here in the slums of Saint Michele
We live on crumbs of humble piety
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell

Think you're poor, think you're free?
Follow me, follow me

BEGGARS
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down upon your fellow man

OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
What you think you're at, hanging round me pitch?
If you're new around here, girl, you've got a lot to learn

MADELEINE
Listen, you old bat, crazy b_____ witch
'Least I give me customers some pleasure in return

OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
I know what you give, give them all the pox
Spread around your poison till they end up in a box

PIMP
Leave the poor old cow, move it, Madeleine
She used to be no better till the clap got to her brain

BEGGARS & MADELEINE
When's it gonna end?

BEGGARS & OLD WOMAN
When we gonna live?

BEGGARS
Something's gotta happen now or something's gonna give

It'll come, it'll come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come, it'll come

ENJOLRAS
Where are the leaders of the land?
Where are the swells who run this show?

MARIUS
Only one man, and that's Lamarque
Speaks for the people here below

BEGGARS
See our children fed, help us in our shame
Something for a crust of bread in Holy Jesus' name

URCHIN
In the Lord's Holy name

BEGGARS
In his name, in his name, in his name

MARIUS
Lamarque is ill and fading fast
Won't last the week out, so they say

ENJOLRAS
With all the anger in the land
How long before the judgement day?
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
Before the barricades arise?

GAVROCHE
Watch out for old Thénardier
All of his family's on the make
Once ran a hash-house down the way
Bit of a swine and no mistake

He's got a gang, the bleeding layabout
Even his daughter does her share
That's Eponine, she knows her way about
Only a kid, but hard to scare

Do we care? Not a cuss
Long live us, long live us

BEGGARS
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down upon your fellow man

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