Lés Misérables Musical: Song Lyrics

Lovely Ladies

When in the Les Miserables this was sang?
When Fantine went across the pier where prostitutes swarmed to get customers. Fantine sold her hair, and joined the prostitutes to get money for her daughter Cosette.

Sailor 1
I smell women
Smell 'em in the air.
Think I drop the anchor,
In that harbor over there.

Sailor 2
Lovely ladies
Smell 'em from the smoke
Seven months in the sea
Could make you hungry for a poke!

Sailor 1
Even stokers need a little stoke!

Prostitutes
Lovely ladies
Waiting for a bite
Waiting for the customers who only come at night!
Lovely ladies
Ready for a call!
Standing up or lying down
Or anyway at all!
Bargain prices up against the wall!

Woman 1
Come in, my dear
Let's see this trinket you wear.
This bagatelle...

Fantine
Madame, I sell it to you.

Woman 1
I give you four.

Fantine
But that won't pay for the chain!

Woman 1
I give you five
You're far too eager to sell.
It's up to you.

Fantine
It's all I have.

Woman 1
That's not my fault.

Fantine
Please make it ten!

Woman 1
Not more than five
My dear, we all must stay alive!

Prostitutes
Lovely ladies
Waiting in the dark,
Ready for thick one
Or a quick one in the park!

Woman 2
Long time, short time
Anytime my dear
Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!

Prostitutes
Quick and cheap is underneath the pier!

Crone
What pretty hair
What pretty locks you got there
What luck you've got
It's worth a centine, my dear.
I'll take the lot!

Fantine
Don't touch me, leave me alone!

Crone
Let's make a price
I'll give you all of ten francs!
Just think of that.

Fantine
It pays a debt

Crone
Just think of that!

Fantine
What can I do? It's pays a debt
Ten francs may save my poor Cosette!

Prostitutes (to Fantine)
Lovely lady!
What yer waiting for?
Doesn't take a lot of savvy
Just to be a whore?
Come on, lady
What's a lady for?

Sailor
Give me the dirt,
Who's that bit over there?

Woman 1
A bit of skirt
She's the one sold her hair.

Woman 2
She's got a kid
Sends her all that she can.

Sailor
I might have known
There's always some man.
Lovely lady, Come along and join us, lovely lady!

Woman 3
Come on dearie, why all the fuss?
You're no grander than the rest of us.
Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap.
Join your sisters
Make money in your sleep.

Woman 1
That's right, dearie.
Let him have the lot.
That's right, dearie.
Show him what you've got!

Prostitutes
Old men, young men,
Take them as they come!
Harbors of rats, and alley cats,
And every kind of scum!
All men, rich men,
Leaders of the land!
See them with their trousers off
And never quite as grand!
All it takes is money in your hand!

Prostitutes (Slow tempo)
Lovely ladies
Going for a song...
Got a lot of callers
But they never stay for long...

Fantine
Come on captain
You can wear your shoes.
Don't it make a change
To have a girl who can't refuse?
Easy money
Lying on a bed
Just as well as they never see the hate that's in your head.
Don't they know they're making love to one already dead?