[Beggars]
Fm Ebadd9/F
Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Fm7 Bb/F
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Fm Ebadd9/F
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Fm7 Bb/F
Look down, look down upon your fellow man!
[Gavroche]
Fm
'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche.
Ebadd9/F
These are my people. Here's my patch.
Fm7
Not much to look at, nothing posh
Bb/F
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch.
Ab
This is my school, my high society
Eb
Here in the slums of Saint Michele
Gb
We live on crumbs of humble piety
Db
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!
Db
Think you're poor?
Db
Think you're free?
D
Follow me! Follow me!
[Beggars]
Gm Fadd9/G
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Gm7 C/G
Look down, look down, upon your fellow man!
[Instrumental]
G Ab A
[Old beggar woman]
C Bb
What you think yer at?
C Bb
Hanging round me pitch?
C Bb
If you're new around here, girl
Gm Ab
You've got a lot to learn!
[Madeleine]
C Bb
Listen you old bat,
C Bb
Crazy bloody witch,
C Bb
'Least I give me customers
Gm Ab
Some pleasure in return!
[Old beggar woman]
Eb D
I know what you give!
Eb D
Give 'em all the pox!
Eb D
Spread around your poison
Cm Gm
Till they end up in a box!
[Pimp]
Cm Bb
Leave the poor old cow,
Cm Bb
Move it, Madeleine!
Cm Bb
She used to be no better
Ab Gm
Till the clap got to her brain!
[Beggars]
Ab/C Gm
When's it gonna end?
Ab/C Gm
When we gonna live?
Ab/C Gm
Something's gotta happen now or
Cm
Something's gonna give
Cm Cm Cm
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
Cm Cm Cm
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
[Enjolras]
Cm
Where the leaders of the land?
Ab Gm
Where are the swells who run this show?
[Marius]
Cm
Only one man - and that's Lamarque
Ab Gm
Speaks for these people here below.
[Beggars]
Ab Gm
See our children fed
Ab Gm
Help us in our shame
Ab Gm
Something for a crust of bread
Eb Cm
In Holy Jesus' name
Cm Cm Cm
In his name, in his name, in his name...
[Marius]
Fm
Lamarque is ill and fading fast!
Cm
Won't last the week out, so they say.
[Enjolras]
D
With all the anger in the land
G
How long before the judgement day?
Ab
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
G Fm Ebadd9/F Fm7 Bb/F
Before the barricades arise?
[Beggars]
Fm Ebadd9/F
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Fm7 Bb/F
Look down, look down upon your fellow man!
[Outro]
Eb B Db Ebadd11