Album: Les Miserables

Lovely Ladies [Ladies Clients]

[The docks. Sailors, whores and their customers, pimps, etc. Fantine wanders in]

[SAILOR ONE]

I smell women

Smell 'em in the air

Think I'll drop my anchor

In that harbor over there

[SAILOR TWO]

Lovely ladies

Smell 'em through the smoke

Seven days at sea

Can make you hungry for a poke

[SAILOR THREE]

Even stokers need a little stoke!

[WOMEN]

Lovely ladies

Waiting for a bite

Waiting for the customers

Who only come at night

Lovely ladies

Ready for the call

Standing up or lying down

Or any way at all

Bargain prices up against the wall

[OLD WOMAN]

Come here, my dear

Let's see this trinket you wear

This bagatelle...

[FANTINE]

Madame, I'll sell it to you...

[OLD WOMAN]

I'll give you four

[FANTINE]

That wouldn't pay for the chain!

[OLD WOMAN]

I'll give you five. You're far to eager to sell.

It's up to you.

[FANTINE]

It's all I have

[OLD WOMAN]

That's not my fault

[FANTINE]

[OLD WOMAN]

No more than five

My dear, we all must stay alive!

[WOMEN]

Lovely ladies

Waiting in the dark

Ready for a thick one

Or a quick one in the park

Whore 1

Long time short time

Any time, my dear

Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!

[ALL]

Quick and cheap is underneath the pier!

[CRONE]

What pretty hair!

What pretty locks you got there

What luck you got. It's worth a centime, 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 pays a debt.

Ten francs may save my poor Cosette!

[SAILOR THREE]

Lovely lady!

Fastest on the street

Wasn't there three minutes

She was back up on her feet

[SAILOR ONE]

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?

[Fantine re-emerges, her long hair cut short]

[PIMP]

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

[WHORE ONE]

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

[WHORE TWO]

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

[PIMP]

I might have known

There is always some man

Lovely lady, come along and join us!

Lovely lady!

[WHORE ONE]

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

[WHORE TWO]

Make money in your sleep!

[Fantine goes off with one of the sailors]

[WHORE ONE]

That's right dearie, let him have the lot

[WHORE THREE]

That's right dearie, show him what you've got!

[WOMEN]

Old men, young men, take 'em as they come

Harbor rats and alley cats and every kind of scum

Poor men, rich men, leaders of the land

See them with their trousers off they're never quite as grand

All it takes is money in your hand!

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 they never see

The hate that's in your head

Don't they know they're making love

To one already dead!