Les Miserables movie - Look Down lyrics

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Song by Gavroche & The Beggars/Revolutionaries<br />

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

GAVROCHE [spoken]

Come on, boys!

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!

URCHINS [spoken]

Wait, wait, Gavroche!

GAVROCHE

There was a time we killed the king

We tried to change the world too fast

Now we have got another king

He is no better than the last

This is the land that fought for liberty

Now when we fight, we fight for bread

Here is the thing about equality

Everyone's equal when they're dead

Take your place, take your chance

Vive la France, vive la France!

[shouts from crowd] Vive la France!

BEGGARS

Look down and show some mercy if you can

Look down, look down, upon your fellow man!

COURFEYRAC

When's this gonna end?

LES AMIS

When we gonna live?

Something's gotta happen now or

JOLY

Something's gonna give

BEGGARS

It'll come, it'll come, it'll come

It'll come, it'll come

ENJOLRAS

Where the leaders of the land?

Where is the king who run this show?

MARIUS

Only one man - General Lamarque Lamarque

Speaks for these people here below.

ENJOLRAS

Lamarque is ill and fading fast!

Won't last the week out, so they say.

MARIUS

With all the anger in the land

How long before the judgement day?

ENJOLRAS

Before we cut the fat ones down to size?

EVERYONE

Before the barricades arise?

BEGGARS

Look down and show some mercy if you can

Look down, look down upon your fellow man!

Thanks to makenna wilson for these lyrics

Thanks to janelikeslesamis for correcting these lyrics