Misc Musicals – Les Misérables - Fantines Arrest (Guitar)

                                                  Eb/Db
Here's something new, I think I'll give it a try

Eb/Db
Come closer you, I like to see what I buy!

Bb/F
The usual price, for just one slice of your pie

Eb/Db
I don't want you, no, no, M'sieur, let me go

Eb/Db
Is this a trick? I won't pay more!

Eb/Db
No, not at all

Eb/Db
You've got some nerve, you little whore

Eb/Db
You've got some gall

Dbmaj7
It's the same with a tart as it is with a grocer

Dbmaj7
The customer sees what he gets in advance

Dbmaj7
It's not for the whore to say 'yes sir' or 'no sir'

Dbmaj7
It's not for the harlot to pick and to choose

Dbmaj7
Or lead me to a dance!

Dbmaj7
I'll kill you, you bastard, try any of that!

G/D                  Em/C#
Even a whore who has gone to the bad

C        B        Em
Won't be had by a rat!

B       Em
Tell me quickly what's the story

        Em/D
Who saw what and why and where?

        Em/C#          Em/C
Let him give a full description

        Bsus4  B    Em
Let him answer to Javert!

        Em
In this nest of whores and vipers

        Em/D
Let one speak who saw it all

         Em/C#              Em/C
Who laid hands on this good man here?

           Bsus4     B       Em
What's the substance of this brawl?

   D7                       G
Javert, would you believe it?

      F                 C
I was crossing from the park

          D7           G
When this prostitute attacked me

        F                B7
You can see she left her mark

         Em
She will answer for her actions

      Em/D
When you make a full report

        Em/C#           Em/C
You may rest assured, M'sieur,

              Bsus4  B      Em
That she will answer to the court.

          D7               G
There's a child who sorely needs me

         F                     C
Please M'sieur, she's but that high

     D7               G
Holy God, is there no mercy?

     F                 B7
If I go to jail she'll die!

       Em
I have heard such protestations

      Em/D
Every day for twenty years

           Em/C#         Em/C
Let's have no more explainations

          Bsus4  B          Em
Save your breath, save your tears

       G/D          Em/C#
Honest work, just reward,

           C      B          Em
That's the way to please the Lord.

Fm/C                  Gm7/D 
     A moment of your time, Javert

Fm/C        Gm7/D              Fm/C
     I do believe this woman's tale

            Dbmaj7
But M'sieur Mayor!

Bbm                     
   You've done your duty

Eb6/Bb
Let her be

Bbm            Cm7           Bbm
   She needs a doctor, not a jail.

            Gb
But M'sieur Mayor!

         Fm
Can this be?

      Gb       Fm
Where will she end -

     Gb              Am
This child without a friend?

                    Em
I've seen your face before

Am                     Em
   Show me some way to help you

F                      C/E
  How have you come to grief

   Gsus4        G  C
In such a place as this?

Fm                               Eb/G
   M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray

Abm                              Eb/Bb
   It's hard enough I've lost my pride

Cm                              Gm/Bb
   You let your foreman send me away

              Fm/Ab             Gsus4 G
Yes, you were there, and turned aside

Am                Em
   I never did no wrong

Em
Is it true, what I have done?

Am                        Em
   My daughter's close to dying

Em
To an innocent soul?

F                   C
  If there's a God above

C
Had I only known then...

     Gsus4        C
He'd let me die instead

       Bb      Am7           Gm   Eb
In His name my task has just begun

       Dm7
I will take her to the hospital

            Eb
But M'sieur Mayor!

Eb            F
I will see it done!