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Look (Gm)down and see the (F)beg gars at your feet.
Look (Gm7)down and show some (C)mer cy if you can.
Look (Gm)down and see the (F)sweep ings of the street.
Look (Gm7)down, look down, up (C)on your fel low man.
(Gm)’Ow do you do, my name’s Gav roche, (F)these are my peo ple, here’s my patch.
(Gm7)Not much to look at, noth ing posh, (C)noth ing that you’d call up to scratch.
(Bb)This is my school, my high so ci e ty, (F)here in the slums of St.
Mi chel.
(Ab)We live on crumbs of hum ble pi e ty, (Eb)tough on the teeth, but what the hell.
Think you’re poor?
Think you’re free?
(D)Fol low me, fol low me!
Look (Gm)down and show some (F)mer cy if you can.
Look (Gm7)down, look down, up (C)on your fel low man.
(Gm)There was a time we killed the king.
(F)We tried to change the world too fast.
(Gm7)Now we have got an oth er king.
(C)He is no bet ter than the last.
(Bb)This is the land that fought for lib er ty, (F)now when we fight, we fight for bread.
(Ab)Here is the thing a bout e qual i ty, (Eb)ev ’ry one’s e qual when they’re dead.
Take your place, take your chance, (E)Vive La France!
Vive La France!
Look (Am)down and show some (G)mer cy if you can.
Look (Am7)down, look down, up (D)on your fel low man.
(D5)When’s it gon na (C5)end?
(D5)When we gon na (C5)live?
(D5)Some thing’s got ta (C5)hap pen now, (Dm)some thing’s got ta (Bb)give.
It ’ll (Dm)come, it ’ll come, it ’ll come, it ’ll come.
Where are the (C)lead ers (Dm)of the (C)land?
(Dm)Where are the (C)swells who (Bb)run this (Am)show?
(Dm)On ly one (C)man, Gen (Dm)’ral La (C)marque,
(Dm)speaks for the (Am)peo ple (Bb)here be (Am)low.
(Gm)La marque is ill and fad ing fast, (Dm)won’t last the week out, so they say.
(E)With all the an ger in the land, (A)how long be fore the judge ment day, be fore we cut the fat ones (Bb)down to size?
Be fore the bar ri cades a (Gm)rise.
Look down, look down, don’t (F)look us in the eye!
Look (Gm7)down, look down, stay (C)here and you die!
(Am)Hey there Mon sieur, what’s new with you?
(G)Have n’t seen much of you of late.
(Am)Plan ning, no doubt, to change the world?
(G)Plot ting to o ver throw the state?
(Bm)Still liv ing here in this old sewer?
(A)Might as well doss down in a ditch.
(G)You still pre tend ing to be poor?
(E)Ev ’ry one knows your Grand pa’s rich.
(A)Won’t take a franc that I’ve not earned.
(Em6)All of those bridg es have been burned.
(F#7)I like the way you talk, Mon sieur.
The (Bm)way you’re al ways teas ing me.
Lit tle he (F#7)knows,
lit tle he (B)sees.
This page shows “Look Down (Gavroche)” by Claude-Michel Schonberg in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of Eb at 88 BPM, a comfortable easy-level arrangement perfect for first-time learners.