Misc Musicals – Les Misérables - Prologue - Chain Gang (Guitar)

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Artist: Les Miserables (Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alan Boublil) Song: Prologue - Chain Gang Album: Les Miserables Soundtrack [Original 1985] Key: F minor INTRO (and aahs): Fm - Eb/F - Ab/F - Bb/F (CHAIN GANG)
 Fm
Look down, look down

 Eb/F
Don't look 'em in the eye

 Ab/F
Look down, look down

 Bb/F
You're here until you die
(CON 1)
 Fm
The sun, is strong

 Eb/F
It's hot as hell below
(CHAIN GANG)
 Ab/F
Look down, look down

 Bb/F
There's twenty years to go
(CON 2)
 Fm
I've done, no wrong

 Eb/F
Sweet Jesus hear my prayer
(CHAIN GANG)
 Ab/F
Look down, look down

 Bb/F
Sweet Jesus doesn't care
(CON 3)
 Ab
I know, she'll wait

 Eb
I know that she'll be true
(CHAIN GANG)
 Gb
Look down, look down

 Db
They've all forgotten you
(CON 3)
 Db
When I get free, you won't see me

 C
Here for dust
(CHAIN GANG)
 Fm
Look down, look down

 Eb/F
Don't look 'em in the eye
(CON 4)
 Ab/F
How long, oh lord

 Bb/F
Before you let me die?
(CHAIN GANG)
 Fm
Look down, look down

 Eb/F
You'll always be a slave

 Ab/F
Look down, look down

 Bb/F
You're standing in your grave
(JAVERT)
 Fm
Now bring me prisoner 24601

 Eb/F
Your time is up and your parole's begun

 Ab/F
You know what that means
(VALJEAN)
 Bb/F
Yes, it means I'm free
(JAVERT) No!
 Fm
It means you get your yellow ticket of leave

 Eb/F
You are a thief
(VALJEAN) I stole a loaf of bread (JAVERT)
             Ab/F
You robbed a house
(VALJEAN)
                 Bb/F
I broke a window pane

 Ab
My sister's child was close to death

 Eb
And we were starving
(JAVERT)
                Gb
You will starve again

                                    Db
Unless you learn the meaning of the law
(VALJEAN)
 Db
I know the meaning of those nineteen years

                C
A slave, of the law
(JAVERT)
 Fm
Five years for what you did,

 Eb/F
The rest because you tried to run

 Ab/F
Yes 24601
(VALJEAN)
                  Bb/F
My name is Jean Valjean
(JAVERT)
 Fm
And I'm Javert

                 Eb/F
Do not forget my name

              Ab/F
Do not forget me

    Bb/F
24601
(CHAIN GANG)
 Fm
Look down, look down

 Eb/F
You'll always be a slave

 Ab/F
Look down, look down

 Bb/F
You're standing in your grave
OUTRO: Fm - Eb/F - Ab/F - Bb/F