BEGGARS 
Look down and see the beggars at your feet 
Look down and show some mercy if you can 
Look down and see the sweepings of the street 
Look down, look down, upon your fellow man! 

GAVROCHE 
'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche. 
These are my people. Here's my patch. 
Not much to look at, nothing posh 
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch. 
This is my school, my high society 
Here in the slums of Saint Michele 
We live on [bad word] of humble piety 
Tough on the teeth, but what the [bad word]  
Think you're poor? 
Think you're free? 
Follow me! Follow me! 

BEGGARS 
Look down and show some mercy if you can 
Look down, look down, upon your fellow man! 

OLD BEGGAR WOMAN 
What you think yer at? 
Hanging round me pitch? 
If you're new around here, girl 
You've got a lot to learn! 

PROSTITUTE 
Listen you old bat... 
Crazy bloody witch... 
'Least I give me customers 
Some pleasure in return! 

OLD BEGGAR WOMAN 
I know what you give! 
Give 'em all the pox! 
Spread around your poison 
Till they end up in a box. 

PIMP 
Leave the poor old cow, 
Move it, Madeleine. 
She used to be no better 
Till the clap got to her brain. 

BEGGARS 
When's it gonna end? 
When we gonna live? 
Something's gotta happen now or 
Something's gonna give  [bad word]  [bad word]  [bad word]  [bad word]  [bad word]  [bad word] 

ENJOLRAS 
Where the leaders of the land? 
Where are the swells [bad word] this show? 

MARIUS 
Only one man - and that's Lamarque 
Speaks for these people here below. 

BEGGARS 
See our children fed 
Help us in our shame 
Something for a [bad word] of bread 
In Holy Jesus' name 

URCHIN 
In the Lord's Holy name. 

BEGGARS 
In his name, in his name, in his name... 

MARIUS 
Lamarque is ill and fading fast! 
Won't last the week out, so they say. 

ENJOLRAS 
With all the anger in the land 
How long before the judgement day? 
Before we cut the fat ones down to size? 
Before the barricades arise? 

BEGGARS 
Look down and show some mercy if you can 
Look down, look down upon your fellow man!