Fantine's Arrest (Live) - 10th Anniversary Concert Cast of Les Misérables

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

The customer sees what he gets in advance

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

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

Or lead me to a dance

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

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

Javert would you believe it

I was crossing from the park

When this prostitute attacked me

You can see she left her mark

She will answer for her actions

When you make a full report

You may rest assured M'sieur

That she will answer to the court

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

You've done 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

I will see it done

But M'sieur Mayor

I will see it done