Look Down

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

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 St. 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

Look down and show some mercy if you can

Look down, look down upon your fellow man

What you think you at?

Hanging around me pitch?

If you're new around here, girl

You've got a lot to learn

Listen you old bat

Crazy, bloody witch

'Least I give me customers some pleasure in return

I know what you give

Give 'em all the pox

Spread around your poison

Till they end up in a box

Leave the poor, old crow

Move it, Madeleine

She used to be no better

Till the clap got to her brain

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

Where are the leaders of the land?

Where are the swells who run this show?

Only one man and that's Lamarque

Speaks for these people here below

See our children fed

Help us in our shame

Something for a crust of bread

In Holy Jesus' name

In the Lord's holy name

In his name, in his name, in his name

Lamarque is ill and fading fast

Won't last the week out, so they say

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?

Look down and show some mercy if you can

Look down, look down upon your fellow man