Fantine's Arrest (Live)

Fantine's Arrest - John Owen-Jones/Madalena Alberto/Earl Carpenter

Here's something new, I think I'll give it a try.

Come closer you! I like to see what I buy

The usual price, for just one slice of your pie

I don't want you, no, no, M'sieur, let me go.

Is this a trick? I won't pay more!

No, not at all.

You've got some nerve, you little whore

You've got some gall.

It's the same with a tart as it is with a grocer

Shut up!

The customer sees what he gets in advance

It's not for the whore to say 'yes or 'no sir'

It's not for the harlot to pick and to choose

Or lead me to a dance!

No, I'll kill you, you bastard, try any of that!

Even a whore who has gone to the bad

Won't be had by a rat!

By Christ you'll pay for what you have done

This rat will make bleed, you you'll see!

I guarantee, I'll make you suffer

For this disturbance of the peace

For this insult to life and property!

I beg you, don't report me sir

I'll do whatever you may want

Make your excuse to the police!

Tell me quickly what's the story

Who saw what and why and where

Let him give a full description

Let him answer to Javert!

In this nest of whores and vipers

Let one speak who saw it all

Who laid hands on this good man here?

What's the substance of this brawl?

There's a child who sorely needs me

Please M'sieur, she's but that high

Holy God, is there no mercy?

If I go to jail she'll die!

I have heard such protestations

Every day for twenty years

Let's have no more explanations

Save your breath and save your tears

Honest work, just reward,

That's the way to please the Lord.

A moment of your time, Javert

I do believe this woman's tale

But M'sieur Mayor!

Done You've your duty

Let her be

She needs a doctor, not a jail.

But M'sieur Mayor!

Can this be?

Where will she end

This child without a friend?

I've seen your face before

Show me some way to help you

How have you come to grief

In such a place as this?

M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray

It's hard enough I've lost my pride

You let your foreman send me away

Yes, you were there, and turned aside

I never did no wrong

Is it true, what I have done?

My daughter's close to dying

To an innocent soul?

If there's a God above

Had I only known then...

He'd let me die instead

In His name my task has just begun

I will see it done!

But M'sieur Mayor!

Take it a hotbit...

But M'sieur Mayor!

I will see it done!