Look Down - Les Misérables Original London Cast

Written by：Herbert Kretzmer

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

'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 crumbs of humble piety

Tough on the teeth but what the hell

If you're poor

If you're free

Follow me follow me

Look down and show some mercy if you can

Look down look down upon your fellow man

Where the leaders of the land

Where are the swells who run this show

Only one man and that's Lamarque

Speaks for these people here below

Lamarque is ill and fading fast

Won't last the week out so they say

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

Look down and show some mercy if you can

Look down look down upon your fellow man