Misc Musicals – Les Misérables - The Confrontation (Guitar)

Fm
Valjean, at last,

   Eb/F
We see each other plain

   Fm
`M'sieur le Mayor,'

       Bb/F               Fm
You'll wear a different chain!

Fm
Before you say another word, Javert

Eb/F
Before you chain me up like a slave again

Fm                                     Bb/F
Listen to me! There is something I must do.

Fm
This woman leaves behind a suffering child.

Eb/F
There is none but me who can intercede,

Fm                                    Bb/F
In Mercy's name, three days are all I need.

Ab
Then I'll return, I pledge my word.

Eb                 [JAVERT]
Then I'll return... You must think me mad!

Gb
I've hunted you across the years

Dbsus4
A man like you can never change

Db            Cm
A man such as you.

Fm
Believe of me what you will (Men like me can never change)

Eb/F
There is a duty that I'm sworn to do (Men like you can never change)

Fm
You know nothing of my life (No,)

Bb/F
All I did was steal some bread (24601)

Fm
You know nothing of the world (My duty's to the law - you have no rights)

Eb/F
You would sooner see me dead (Come with me 24601)

Fm
But not before I see this justice (Now the wheel has turned around)

Bb/F
done (Jean Valjean is nothing now)

Fm
I am warning you Javert (Dare you talk to me of crime)

Eb/F
I'm a stronger man by far (And the price you had to pay)

Fm
There is power in me yet (Every man is born in sin)

Bb/F
My race is not yet run (Every man must choose his way)

Fm
I am warning you Javert (You know nothing of Javert)

Eb/F
There is nothing I won't dare (I was born inside a jail)

Fm
If I have to kill you here (I was born with scum like you)

Bb/F
I'll do what must be done! (I am from the gutter too!)

Dm7         F/C            Bb
And this I swear to you tonight

                   Bb/A             Gm7
There is no place for you to hide

                 C              F
Your child will live within my care

              F/E        Dm7
Wherever you may hide away

           F/C               Bbmaj7
And I will raise her to the light.

              C             F
I swear to you, I will be there!