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Songs from Les Misérables
Song List for Les Misérables (Click on a song's title to view full lyrics.)
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Prologue: Work Song Men, Valjean, Javert & Bishop

[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down
Don't look 'em in the eye
Look down, look down,
You're here until you die

[CONVICT ...

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Prologue: Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven Constables & Bishop

[CONSTABLE ONE]
Tell his reverence your story

[CONSTABLE TWO]
Let us see if he's impressed

[CONSTABLE ONE]
You...

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Prologue: What Have I Done? Jean Valjean

[VALJEAN]
What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
Become a thief in the night,
Become a dog on the run
And have I...

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At The End of the Day Ensemble

[1823, Montreuil-sur-Mer.]
[Outside the factory owned by the Mayor,]
[Monsieur Madeleine (Jean Valjean in disguise).]

[THE POO...

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I Dreamed a Dream Fantine

There was a time when men were kind,
And their voices were soft,
And their words inviting.
There was a time when love was blind,

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Lovely Ladies Fantine & Ensemble

[SAILOR ONE]
I smell women
Smell 'em in the air
Think I'll drop my anchor
In that harbor over there

[SAILOR TWO]

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Who Am I Javert

[VALJEAN]
He thinks that man is me
He knew him at a glance!
That stranger he has found
This man could be my chance!

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Fantine's Death: Come to Me Fantine, Valjean & Bamatabois

[FANTINE]
Cosette, it's turned so cold
Cosette, it's past your bedtime
You've played the day away
And soon it will be night.

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Fantine's Death: Confrontation Javert & Valjean


[JAVERT]
Valjean, at last,
We see each other plain
`M'sieur le Mayor,'
You'll wear a different chain!

[VALJEAN...

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Castle on a Cloud Cosette & Mme. Thenardier

[YOUNG COSETTE]
There is a castle on a cloud,
I like to go there in my sleep,
Aren't any floors for me to sweep,
Not in my cast...

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Master of the House Thenardier & Ensemble

DRINKER THREE
Come on you old pest

DRINKER TWO
Fetch a bottle of your best

DRINKER ONE
What's the nectar of th...

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Thenardier Waltz Valjean, Young Cosette M & Mme. Thenardier

THENARDIER
What to do? What to say?
Shall you carry our treasure away?
What a gem! What a pearl!
Beyond rubies is our little gi...

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Stars Javert

JAVERT
There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from grace
Fallen from grace
God be my witness
I never sh...

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Look Down Ensemble & Gavroche

1832. The teeming, squalid streets of Paris.
Beggars, urchins, prostitutes, students, etc.

BEGGARS
Look down and see the begg...

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Little People Gavroche & Ensemble


GAVROCHE
They laugh at me, these fellas,
Just because I am small
They laugh at me because I'm not hundred feet tall!
I te...

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Red & Black Gavroche, Lesgles, Enjolras, Jean Prouvaire, Grantaire, Marius & Ensemble

(The ABC Cafe, where the students, led by Enjolras,
meet to discuss their revolutionary plans)

COMBEFERRE
At Notre Dame the s...

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Do You Hear The People Sing? Feuilly, Enjolras, Combeferre & Ensemble

ENJOLRAS
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!

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In My Life/A Heart Full of Love Cosette, Valjean & Marius

N MY LIFE
(Cosette stands in her garden on Rue Plumet)

COSETTE
How strange
This feeling that my life's begun at last

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Plumet Attack Valjean, Cosette, Javert, Marius, Thenardier, Eponine, Brijon, Claquesous, Babet & Brijjon

EPONINE
'Parnasse, what are you doing
So far out of our patch?

MONTPARNASSE
This house, we're going to do it
Rich ma...

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One Day More! Valjean, Marius, Cosette, Javert, Thenardiers & Ensemble

VALJEAN
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime

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On My Own Eponine

And now I'm all alone again,
Nowhere to go, no one to turn to.
Did not want your money sir,
Came out here cuz I was told to.

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The Attack Valjean, Enjolras, Lesgles, Feuilly & Students

ENJOLRAS
Take this and use it well!
But if you shoot us in the back,
You'll never live to tell.

STUDENT ONE
Platoo...

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A Little Fall of Rain Marius, Enjolras, Lesgles, Prouvaire, Combeferre & Eponine

EPONINE
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, tha...

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Drink With Me Enjolras, Feuilly, Prouvaire, Joly, Grantaire, Marius & Ensemble

ENJOLRAS
Marius, rest.

FEUILLY
Drink with me to days gone by
Sing with me the songs we knew

PROUVAIRE
Her...

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Bring Him Home Jean Valjean

VALJEAN
God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there

He is young
He's afraid
Let him r...

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Dog Eat Dog Valjean, Javert & Thenardier

THENARDIER
Here's a hint of gold
Stuck into a tooth
Pardon me M'sieur
You won't be needing it no more.
Shouldn't be too ha...

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Soliloquy Javert

JAVERT
Who is this man?
What sort of devil is he?
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free?
It was his hou...

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Turning Women

WOMAN ONE
Did you see them
Going off to fight?

WOMAN TWO
Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?
<...

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Empty Chairs At Empty Tables Marius

MARIUS
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dea...

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Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast MaMarius, Thenardier, Major Domo, Beggars at the Feast, Valjean, Fantine & Cosette

WEDDING CHORALE

(Marius and Cosette lead a wedding procession)

CHORUS
Ring out the bells
Upon this day of days!

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Finale Ensemble

CHORUS
Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.<...

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