Miserables, Les (Related Recordings) - Lovely Ladies lyrics

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Sailor 1:

I smell women

Smell 'em in the air

Think I'll drop my anchor

In that harbor over there

Sailor 2:

Lovely ladies

Smell 'em through the smoke

Seven days at sea

Can make you hungry for a poke

Sailor 3:

Even stokers need a little stoke!

Whores:

Lovely ladies

Waiting for a bite

Waiting for the customer

Who only comes at night

Lovely ladies

Waiting for the call

Standing up or lying down

Or any way at all

Bargain prices up against the wall

Old Woman:

Come here, my dear

Let's see this trinket you wear

This bagatelle...

Fantine:

Madame, I'll sell it to you...

Old Woman:

I'll give you four

Fantine:

That wouldn't pay for the chain

Old Woman:

I'll give you five, you're far to eager to sell, it's up to you.

Fantine:

It's all I have

Old Woman:

That's not my fault

Fantine:

Please make it ten

Old Woman:

No more than five

My dear, we all must stay alive!

Whores:

Lovely ladies

Waiting in the dark

Ready for a thick one

Or a quick one in the park

Whore 1:

Long time short time

Any time, my dear

Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!

Whores:

Quick and cheap is underneath the pier!

Crone:

What pretty hair

What pretty locks you got there

What luck you got, it's worth a centime my dear

I'll take the lot

Fantine:

Don't touch me leave me alone

Crone:

Let's make a price, I'll give you all of ten francs

Just think of that!

Fantine:

It pays a debt

Crone:

Just think of that

Fantine:

What can I do? It pays a debt.

Ten francs may save my poor Cosette!

Sailors:

Lovely lady!

Fastest on the street

Wasn't there three minutes

She was back up on her feet

Lovely lady!

What yer waiting for?

Doesn't take a lot of savvy

Just to be a whore

Come on, lady

What's a lady for?

Whores: (in counterpoint)

Lovely ladies

Lovely little girls

Lovely ladies

Lovely little ladies

Lovely girlies

Lovely little girls

We are lovely, lovely girls

Lovely ladies

What's a lady for?

[Fantine re-emerges, her long hair cut short.]

Pimp:

Give me the dirt, who's that bit over there?

Whore 1:

A bit of skirt, she's the one sold her hair.

Whore 2:

She's got a kid sends her all that she can

Pimp:

I might have known

There is always some man

Lovely lady, come along and join us!

Lovely lady!

Whore 1:

Come on dearie, why all the fuss?

You're no grander than the rest of us

Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap

Join your sisters

Whore 2:

Make money in your sleep!

Whore 1:

That's right dearie, let him have the lot

[Fantine goes off with one of the sailors.]

Whore 3:

That's right dearie, show him what you've got!

Whores:

Old men, young men, take 'em as they come

Harbor rats and alley cats and every type of scum

Poor men, rich men, leaders of the land

See them with their trousers off they're never quite as grand

All it takes is money in your hand!

Lovely ladies

Going for a song

Got a lot of callers

But they never stay for long

Fantine:

Come on, Captain

You can wear your shoes

Don't it make a change

To have a girl who can't refuse

Easy money

Lying on a bed

Just as well they never see

The shame that's in your head

Don't they know they're making love

To one already dead!