Misc Musicals – Les Misérables - Look Down Beggars (Guitar)

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[Beggars]
     Fm               Ebadd9/F
Look down and see the beggars at your feet

     Fm7               Bb/F
Look down and show some mercy if you can

     Fm               Ebadd9/F
Look down and see the sweepings of the street

     Fm7              Bb/F
Look down, look down upon your fellow man!
[Gavroche]
Fm
'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche.

Ebadd9/F
These are my people. Here's my patch.

Fm7
Not much to look at, nothing posh

Bb/F
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch.

Ab
This is my school, my high society

Eb
Here in the slums of Saint Michele

Gb
We live on crumbs of humble piety

Db
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!

Db
Think you're poor?

Db
Think you're free?

D
Follow me! Follow me!
[Beggars]
     Gm                 Fadd9/G
Look down and show some mercy if you can

     Gm7              C/G
Look down, look down, upon your fellow man!
[Instrumental] G Ab A [Old beggar woman]
C                  Bb
What you think yer at?

C                Bb
Hanging round me pitch?

C               Bb
If you're new around here, girl

       Gm           Ab
You've got a lot to learn!
[Madeleine]
C              Bb
Listen you old bat,

C            Bb
Crazy bloody witch,

C                Bb
'Least I give me customers

     Gm          Ab
Some pleasure in return!
[Old beggar woman]
Eb              D
I know what you give!

Eb               D
Give 'em all the pox!

Eb                 D
Spread around your poison

          Cm          Gm
Till they end up in a box!
[Pimp]
Cm                 Bb
Leave the poor old cow,

Cm            Bb
Move it, Madeleine!

    Cm            Bb
She used to be no better

         Ab              Gm
Till the clap got to her brain!
[Beggars]
Ab/C            Gm
When's it gonna end?

Ab/C          Gm
When we gonna live?

Ab/C              Gm
Something's gotta happen now or

                  Cm
Something's gonna give

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

      Cm          Cm          Cm
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
[Enjolras]
Cm
Where the leaders of the land?

                         Ab       Gm
Where are the swells who run this show?
[Marius]
Cm
Only one man - and that's Lamarque

                        Ab     Gm
Speaks for these people here below.
[Beggars]
Ab               Gm
See our children fed

Ab             Gm
Help us in our shame

Ab              Gm
Something for a crust of bread

   Eb          Cm
In Holy Jesus' name

       Cm           Cm           Cm
In his name, in his name, in his name...
[Marius]
Fm
Lamarque is ill and fading fast!

Cm
Won't last the week out, so they say.
[Enjolras]
D
With all the anger in the land

G
How long before the judgement day?

                           Ab
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?

G                      Fm    Ebadd9/F Fm7 Bb/F
Before the barricades arise?
[Beggars]
     Fm                Ebadd9/F
Look down and show some mercy if you can

     Fm7              Bb/F
Look down, look down upon your fellow man!
[Outro] Eb B Db Ebadd11