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Artist: Les Misérables
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Look Down (The Beggars)
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Look Down (The Beggars)
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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
'Ow 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
(An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute occupying her pitch)
Old beggar woman
What you think yer at?
Hanging round me pitch?
If you're new around here, girl
You've got a lot to learn
Young prostitute
Listen you old bat
Crazy bloody witch
'Least I give me customers
Some pleasure in return
Old beggar woman
I know what you give
Give 'em 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
When's it gonna end?
When we gonna live?
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
Enjolras
Where the leaders of the land?
Where are the swells who run this show?
Marius
Only one man - and that's lamarque
Speaks for these 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 thenardier
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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