Misc Musicals – Les Misérables - On Parole The Bishop (Guitar)

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[Valjean]
C#                   Bbm
Freedom is mine, the earth is still

F#                 Gm
I feel the wind, I breathe again

        D           C
And the sky clears, the world is waking

F
Drink from the pool, how clean the taste

Dm         G                C
Never forget the years, the waste

            Bb    A                Dm
Nor forgive them, for what they've done

Gm                   F
They are the guilty, everyone
The day begins And now let's see
Em        Gm
What this new world

        C   F
Will do for me.
[Employer]
G
You'll have to go
I'll pay you off for the day Collect your bits and pieces there
               E
And be on your way.
[Valjean]
F
You've given me half
What the other men get This handful of tin Wouldn't buy my sweat. [Employer]
D
You broke the law
It's there for people to see Why should you get the same
                   B
As honest men like me?
[Valjean]
Em
And now I know how freedom feels
The jailer always at your heels
          C
It is the law

Am
This piece of paper in my hand

                                    F
That makes me cursed throughout the land
It is the law
       Em
Like a cur

  Dm       Em
I walk the street

    F                  B
The dirt beneath their feet.
[Bishop]
Am
Come  in, sir, for you are weary,

Am                        C
And the night is cold out there.

C                         Dm
Though our lives are very humble,

        E                Am
What we have, we have to share.

Am
There is wine here to revive you.

Am                         C
There is bread to make you strong.

C                          Dm
There's a bed to rest till morning.

          E                  C#m
Rest from pain and rest from wrong.
[Valjean]
C#m
He let me eat my fill, I had the lion's share.

C#m/E
The silver in my hand cost twice what I had earned

F#m
In all those nineteen years, that lifetime of despair.

G#                 Dm
And yet he trusted me.

Dm
The old fool trusted me, he'd done his bit of good.

Dm/F
I played the grateful serf and thanked him, like I should.

Gm
But when the house was still, I got up in the night,

A                       Bb     Bb/D
Took the silver took my flight!
High Tempo [Instrumental] Am/D Bdim/D Ab/D Bb/D C/D Db/D Eb/D F/D Em Em/D E/C# Esus2/C Bsus4 B Em [Constables]
Em
Tell his reverence your story

       Em/D
Let us see if he's impressed.

         Em/C#
You were lodging here last night

             Bsus4/C B        Em
You were the honest  bishop's guest.

Em
And then, out of Christian goodness,

        Em/D
When he learned about your plight,

        Em/C#          Bsus4/C         B                        Em
You maintain he made a present of this silver. [BISHOP] That is right.
N.C.
       D                  G
But my friend you left so early,

       F                      C
surely something slipped your mind.

       D                G
You forgot I gave these also,

          F              B
would you leave the best behind?

Em
So Messieurs, you may release him,

         Em/D
For this man has spoken true.

     Em/C#             Em/C
I commend you for your duty,

          Bsus4/B  B       E
Now God's blessing go with you

Am
But remember this, my brother.

Am                      C
See in this some higher plan.

C                          Dm
You must use this precious silver

     E              Am
To become an honest man.

Am
By the witness of the martyrs,

Am                     C
By the Passion and the Blood.

C                         Dm
God had raised you out of darkness,

       E                    A
I have bought your soul for God.