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Thénardier Waltz of Treachery

Thénardier:
What to do? What to say?
Shall you carry our treasure away?
What a gem! What a pearl!
Beyond rubies is our little girl!
How can we speak of debt?
Let's not haggle for darling Cosette!

Dear Fantine, gone to rest...
Have we done for her child what is best?
Shared our bread. Shared each bone.
Treated her like she's one of our own!
Like our own, Monsieur!

Valjean:
Your feelings do you credit, sir
And I will ease the parting blow

Let us not talk of bargains or bones or greed
Now, may I say, we are agreed?

Mme. Thénardier:
That would quite fit the bill
If she hadn't so often been ill
Little dear, cost us dear
Medicines are expensive, M'sieur
Not that we begrudged a sou
It's no more than we Christians must do!

M. and Mme. Thénardier:
One thing more, one small doubt
There are treacherous people about
No offense. Please reflect.
Your intentions may not be correct?

Valjean:
No more words. Here's your price.
Fifteen hundred for your sacrifice.
Come, Cosette, say goodbye
Let us seek out some friendlier sky.
Thank you both for Cosette
It won't take you too long to forget.

Come, Cosette, come, my dear
From now on I will always be here
Where I go, you will be.
Cosette:
Will there be children and castles to see?
Valjean:
Yes, Cosette, yes, it's true.
There's a castle just waiting for you.

Look Down

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 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 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!

The Robbery

Thénardier:
Everyone here, you know your place
Brujon, Babet, Claquesous
You, Montparnasse, watch for the law
With Eponine take care
You turn on the tears
No mistakes, my dears

Mme. Thénardier:
These bloody students on our street
Here they come slumming once again
Our Eponine would kiss their feet
She never had a scrap of brain

Marius
Hey, Eponine, what's up today?
I haven't seen you much about.
Eponine: Here you can always catch me in.
Marius: Mind the police don't catch you out!

Eponine:
Here, wotcher do with all them books?
I could have been a student too!
Don't judge a girl on how she looks.
I know a lot of things, I do!

Marius
Poor Eponine, the things you know
You wouldn't find in books like these.
Eponine: I like the way you grow your hair
Marius: I like the way you always tease

Eponine:
Little he knows!
Little he sees!

Mme. Thénardier:
Here's the old boy. Stay on the job and watch out for the law.

Eponine: (to Marius)
Stay out of this.
Marius
But Eponine...
Eponine:
You'll be in trouble here
It's not your concern
You'll be in the clear

Marius: Who is that man?
Eponine: Leave me alone!
Marius: Why is he here? Hey, Eponine!

I didn't see you there, forgive me.

Thénardier:
Please m'sieur, come this way
Here's a child that ain't eaten today.
Save a life, spare a sou
God rewards all the good that you do.
Wait a bit. Know that face.
Ain't the world a remarkable place?
Men like me don't forget
You're the bastard who borrowed Cosette!

Valjean:
What is this? Are you mad?
No, Monsieur, you don't know what you do!
Thénardier:
You know me, you know me.
I'm a con, just like you.
Eponine:
It's the police! Disappear!
Run for it! It's Javert!

Javert:
Another brawl in the square
Another stink in the air!
Was there a witness to this? (Marius steps forward)
Well, let him speak to Javert!
M'sieur, the streets are not safe,
But let these vermin beware
We'll see that justice is done!

Look upon this fine collection
Crawled from underneath a stone
This swarm of worms and maggots
Could have picked you to the bone!
I know this man over here
I know his name and his trade
And on your witness, M'sieur,
We'll see him suitably paid.

But where's the gentleman gone?
And why on earth did he run?

Marius runs off to find Cosette

Thénardier:
You will have a job to catch him
He's the one you should arrest
No more bourgeois when you scratch him
Than that brand upon his chest!

Javert:
Could it be he's some old jailbird
That the tide now washes in
Heard my name and started running
Had the brand upon his skin
And the girl who stood beside him
When I turned they both had gone
Could he be the man I've hunted?
Could it be he's Jean Valjean?

Thénardier:
In the absence of a victim,
Dear Inspector, may I go?
And remember when you've nicked him,
It was me who told you so!

Javert:
Let the old man keep on running
I will run him off his feet!

Everyone about your business!
Clear this garbage off the street!

Stars

Javert:
There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from grace
Fallen from grace
God be my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face

He knows his way in the dark
Mine is the way of the Lord
And those who follow the path of the righteous
Shall have their reward
And if they fall
As Lucifer fell
The flame
The sword!

Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night

You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season
Returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall as Lucifer fell
You fall in flame!

And so it has been and so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price!

Lord let me find him
That I may see him
Safe behind bars
I will never rest
Till then
This I swear
This I swear by the stars!

Gavroche
That inspector thinks he's something
But it's me who runs this town!
And my theater never closes
And the curtain's never down
Trust Gavroche, have no fear
Don't you worry, auntie dear,
You can always find me here!

Eponine:
Cosette! Now I remember!
Cosette! How can it be?
We were children together
Look what's become of me...

Good God! Ooh, what a rumpus!

Marius: That girl, who can she be?
Eponine: That cop! He'd like to jump us
But he ain't smart, not he.

Marius: Eponine, who was that girl?
Eponine: Some bourgeois two-a-penny thing!
Marius: Eponine, find her for me!
Eponine: What will you give me?
Marius: Anything!
Eponine: Got you all excited now,
But God knows what you see in her
Ain't you all delighted now

No, I don't want your money sir...

Marius
Eponine! Do this for me...
Discover where she lives
But careful how you go
Don't let your father know
'Ponine! I'm lost until she's found!

Eponine:
You see, I told you so!
There's lots of things I know

'Ponine... she knows her way around!

The ABC Cafe - Red and Black

Combeferre: At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!
Feuilly: At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash!
Courfeyrac: Students, workers, everyone
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Paris coming to our side!

Enjolras:
The time is near
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!
And yet beware
Don't let the wine go to your brains!
For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
With the men and the arms that we never can match
It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies
But the national guard will be harder to catch.
We need a sign
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line!

Marius, you're late.

Joly:
What's wrong today?
You look as if you've seen a ghost.
Grantaire
Some wine and say what's going on!

Marius
A ghost you say... a ghost maybe
She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, and she was gone!

Grantaire
I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Marius in love at last?
I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah'
You talk of battles to be won
And here he comes like Don Ju-an
It's better than an o-per-a!

Enjolras:
It is time for us all
To decide who we are
Do we fight for the right
To a night at the opera now?
Have you asked of yourselves
What's the price you might pay?
Is this simply a game
For rich young boys to play?
The colors of the world
Are changing day by day...

Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!

Marius
Had you been there tonight
You might know how it feels
To be struck to the bone
In a moment of breathless delight!
Had you been there tonight
You might also have known
How the world may be changed
In just one burst of light!
And what was right seems wrong
And what was wrong seems right!

Grantaire: Red...
Marius: I feel my soul on fire!
Grantaire: Black...
Marius: My world if she's not there!
All: Red...
Marius: The color of desire!
All: Black...
Marius: The color of despair!

Enjolras:
Marius, you're no longer a child
I do not doubt you mean it well
But now there is a higher call.
Who cares about your lonely soul?
We strive toward a larger goal
Our little lives don't count at all!

All
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!

Enjolras:
Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?
Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short.
Grantaire, put the bottle down!
Do we have the guns we need?

Grantaire
Give me brandy on my breath
And I'll breathe them all to death!

Courfeyrac: In St. Antoine they're with us to a man!
Combeferre: In Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones!
Feuilly: Twenty rifles good as new!

Gavroche: Listen!
Joly: Twenty rounds for every man!
Gavroche: Listen to me!
Jean Prouvaire: Double that in Port St. Cloud!
Gavroche: Listen everybody!
Lesgles: Seven guns in St. Martin!
Gavroche: General Lamarque is dead!

Enjolras:
Lamarque is dead
Lamarque...his death is the hour of fate
The people's man
His death is the hour we await!
On his funeral day they will honour his name
With the light of rebellion ablaze in their eyes!
From their candles of grief, we will kindle our flame
On the tomb of Lamarque shall our Barricade rise! The time is near!
Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer
Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts
But a jubilant shout
They will come one and all
They will come when we call!