Artist: Les Miserables (Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alan Boublil)
Song: Prologue - Chain Gang
Album: Les Miserables Soundtrack [Original 1985]
Key: F minor
INTRO (and aahs): Fm - Eb/F - Ab/F - Bb/F
(CHAIN GANG)
Fm
Look down, look down
Eb/F
Don't look 'em in the eye
Ab/F
Look down, look down
Bb/F
You're here until you die
(CON 1)
Fm
The sun, is strong
Eb/F
It's hot as hell below
(CHAIN GANG)
Ab/F
Look down, look down
Bb/F
There's twenty years to go
(CON 2)
Fm
I've done, no wrong
Eb/F
Sweet Jesus hear my prayer
(CHAIN GANG)
Ab/F
Look down, look down
Bb/F
Sweet Jesus doesn't care
(CON 3)
Ab
I know, she'll wait
Eb
I know that she'll be true
(CHAIN GANG)
Gb
Look down, look down
Db
They've all forgotten you
(CON 3)
Db
When I get free, you won't see me
C
Here for dust
(CHAIN GANG)
Fm
Look down, look down
Eb/F
Don't look 'em in the eye
(CON 4)
Ab/F
How long, oh lord
Bb/F
Before you let me die?
(CHAIN GANG)
Fm
Look down, look down
Eb/F
You'll always be a slave
Ab/F
Look down, look down
Bb/F
You're standing in your grave
(JAVERT)
Fm
Now bring me prisoner 24601
Eb/F
Your time is up and your parole's begun
Ab/F
You know what that means
(VALJEAN)
Bb/F
Yes, it means I'm free
(JAVERT)
No!
Fm
It means you get your yellow ticket of leave
Eb/F
You are a thief
(VALJEAN)
I stole a loaf of bread
(JAVERT)
Ab/F
You robbed a house
(VALJEAN)
Bb/F
I broke a window pane
Ab
My sister's child was close to death
Eb
And we were starving
(JAVERT)
Gb
You will starve again
Db
Unless you learn the meaning of the law
(VALJEAN)
Db
I know the meaning of those nineteen years
C
A slave, of the law
(JAVERT)
Fm
Five years for what you did,
Eb/F
The rest because you tried to run
Ab/F
Yes 24601
(VALJEAN)
Bb/F
My name is Jean Valjean
(JAVERT)
Fm
And I'm Javert
Eb/F
Do not forget my name
Ab/F
Do not forget me
Bb/F
24601
(CHAIN GANG)
Fm
Look down, look down
Eb/F
You'll always be a slave
Ab/F
Look down, look down
Bb/F
You're standing in your grave
OUTRO: Fm - Eb/F - Ab/F - Bb/F
