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(The docks. Sailors, whores and their customers, pimps, etc. Fantine wanders in.) |
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Sailors |
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I smell women |
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Smell 'em in the air |
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Think I'll drop my anchor |
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In that harbor over there |
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Lovely ladies |
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Smell 'em through the smoke |
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Seven days at sea |
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Can make you hungry for a poke |
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Even stokers need a little stoke! |
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Whores |
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Lovely ladies |
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Waiting for a bite |
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Waiting for the customer |
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Who only comes at night |
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Lovely ladies |
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Waiting for the call |
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Standing up or lying down |
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Or any way at all |
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Bargain prices up against the wall |
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Old Woman |
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Come here, my dear |
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Let's see this trinket you wear |
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This bagatelle... |
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Fantine |
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Madame, I'll sell it to you... |
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Old Woman |
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I'll give you four |
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Fantine |
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That wouldn't pay for the chain |
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Old Woman |
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I'll give you five, you're far to eager to sell, it's up to you. |
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Fantine |
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It's all I have |
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Old Woman |
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That's not my fault |
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Fantine |
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Please make it ten |
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Old Woman |
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No more than five |
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My dear, we all must stay alive! |
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Whores |
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Lovely ladies |
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Waiting in the dark |
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Ready for a thick one |
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Or a quick one in the park |
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Long time short time |
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Any time, my dear |
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Cost a little extra if you want to take all year! |
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Quick and cheap is underneath the pier! |
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Crone |
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What pretty hair |
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What pretty locks you got there |
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What luck you got, it's worth a centime my dear |
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I'll take the lot |
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Fantine |
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Don't touch me leave me alone |
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Crone |
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Let's make a price, I'll give you all of ten francs |
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Just think of that! |
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Fantine |
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It pays a debt |
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Crone |
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Just think of that |
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Fantine |
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What can I do? It pays a debt. |
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Ten francs may save my poor Cosette! |
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Whores |
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Lovely ladies |
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Lovely little girls |
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Lovely ladies |
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Lovely little ladies |
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Lovely girlies |
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Lovely little girls |
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We are lovely, lovely girls |
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Lovely ladies |
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What's a lady for? Sailors |
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Lovely lady! |
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Fastest on the street |
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Wasn't there three minutes |
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She was back up on her feet |
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Lovely lady! |
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What yer waiting for? |
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Doesn't take a lot of savvy |
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Just to be a whore |
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Come on, lady |
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What's a lady for? |
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(Fantine re-emerges, her long hair cut short.) |
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Pimp |
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Give me the dirt, who's that bit over there? |
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Whore 1 |
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A bit of skirt, she's the one sold her hair. |
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Whore 2 |
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She's got a kid sends her all that she can |
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Pimp |
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I might have known |
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There is always some man |
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Lovely lady, come along and join us! |
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Lovely lady! |
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Whores |
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Come on dearie, why all the fuss? |
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You're no grander than the rest of us |
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Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap |
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Join your sisters, make money in your sleep! |
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(Fantine goes off with one of the sailors.) |
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That's right dearie, let him have the lot |
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That's right dearie, show him what you've got! |
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Old men, young men, take 'em as they come |
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Harbor rats and alley cats and every type of scum |
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Poor men, rich men, leaders of the land |
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See them with their trousers off they're never quite as grand |
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All it takes is money in your hand! |
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Lovely ladies |
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Going for a song |
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Got a lot of callers |
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But they never stay for long |
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Fantine |
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Come on, Captain |
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You can wear your shoes |
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Don't it make a change |
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To have a girl who can't refuse |
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Easy money |
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Lying on a bed |
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Just as well they never see |
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The shame that's in your head |
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Don't they know they're making love |
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To one already dead! |