Look Down (Les Miserables)

5 -6 5 -6 5 -6 7 <7 7 -6 Look down and see the beggars at your feet 5 -6 5 -6 5 <-5 5 4 <-3 5 -2 Look down and show some mercy if you can 5 -6 5 -6 5 -6 7 <7 7 -6 Look down and see the sweepings of the street 5 -6 5 -6 5 <-5 5 4 <-3 5 -2 Look down, look down upon your fellow man -6 -6 -6 -6 <-5 -6 7 <7 How do you do, my name’s Gavroche -6 -6 -6 -6 <-5 -6 7 -6 These are my people, here’s my patch -6 -6 -6 -6 <-5 -6 7 <7 Not much to look at, nothing posh -6 -6 -6 -6 <-5 -6 7 -6 Nothing that you’d call up to scratch <7 <7 <7 <7 <-5 <7 <-7 8 <-7 <7 This is my school, my high society <-7 <-7 <-7 <-7 8 <-7 <-5 <-5 Here in the slums of St. Michel <-7 <-7 <-7 <-7 <7 <-7 8 <8 8 <-7 We live on crumbs of humble piety <7 <7 <7 <7 <-7 <7 <5 <5 Tough on the teeth but what the hell <7 <5 <5 <7 <5 <5 -7 -5 -5 Think you’re poor, think you’re free, follow me -5 7 -5 7 -5 7 -7 <-7 -7 7 Look down and show some mercy if you can -5 7 -5 7 -5 -6 -5 -5 5 -5 3 Look down, look down upon your fellow man 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 8 8 8 <-7 What you think you’re at, hanging round my pitch 8 8 8 8 <-7 <-7 <-7 <-7 7 7 7 7 5 If you’re new around here, girl, you’ve got a lot to learn 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 8 8 8 <-7 Listen you old bat, crazy bloody witch 8 8 8 8 <-7 <-7 <-7 <-7 7 7 7 7 5 Least I give my customers some pleasure in return <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 -9 <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 -9 I know what you give, give them all the pox <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 -9 -9 -9 -9 8 8 8 8 <-7 Spread around your poison till they end up in a box <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 -9 <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 -9 Leave the poor old cow, move it Madeleine -9 <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 -9 -9 -9 -9 8 8 8 8 <-7 She used to be no better till the clap got to her brain 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 8 8 8 <-7 When’s it gonna end, when we gonna live 8 8 8 8 <-7 <-7 <-7 7 7 7 7 5 Something’s gotta happen now, something’s gotta give 7 7 5 It’ll come (x7) 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 -9 <-9 Where are the leaders of the land 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 -9 <-7 Where are the swells who run this show 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 -9 <-9 Only one man, and that’s Lamarque 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 -9 <-7 Speaks for the people here below 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 8 8 8 <-7 See our children fed, help us in our shame 8 8 8 8 <-7 <-7 <-7 <-7 7 7 7 7 5 Something for a crust of bread in holy Jesus’ name 7 7 5 7 7 5 In the lord’s holy name 7 7 5 In his name (x3) 8 8 8 8 <-7 8 -9 <-9 Lamarque is ill and fading fast <-9 <-9 <-9 <-9 -9 <-9 -10 11 Won’t last the week out, so they say -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 <-9 -9 -9 With all the anger in the land -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 <-9 -9 -9 How long before the judgment day -9 -9 -9 11 -10 <-9 -9 -9 8 8 Before we cut the fat ones down to size -9 -9 -9 11 -10 <-9 -9 -10 Before the barricades arise -6 -6 -6 -6 <-5 -6 7 <7 Watch out for old Thenardier -6 -6 -6 -6 <-5 -6 7 -6 All of his family’s on the make -6 -6 -6 -6 <-5 -6 7 <7 Once ran a hash-house down the way -6 -6 -6 -6 <-5 -6 7 -6 Bit of a swine and no mistake <7 <7 <7 <7 <-5 <7 <-7 8 <-7 <7 He’s got a gang, the bleeding layabout <-7 <-7 <-7 <-7 8 <-7 <-5 <-5 Even his daughter does her share <-7 <-7 <-7 <-7 <7 <-7 8 <8 8 <-7 That’s Eponine, she knows her way about <7 <7 <7 <7 <-7 <7 <-5 <-5 Only a kid but hard to scare <7 <5 <5 <7 <5 <5 7 5 5 Do we care, not a cuss, long live us 5 -6 5 -6 5 -6 7 <7 7 -6 Look down and show some mercy if you can 5 -6 5 -6 5 <-5 5 4 <-3 4 -2 Look down, look down upon your fellow man