Lovely Ladies Lyrics

Lovely Ladies lyrics

[The docks. Sailors, whores and their customers, pimps, etc.

 Fantine wanders in.]

 

 Sailors

 I smell women

 Smell 'em in the air

 Think I'll drop my anchor

 In that harbor over there

 Lovely ladies

 Smell 'em through the smoke

 Seven days at sea

 Can make you hungry for a poke

 Even stokers need a little stoke!

 

 Whores

 Lovely ladies

 Waiting for a bite

 Waiting for the customer

 Who only comes at night

 Lovely ladies

 Waiting 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

 Please make it ten

 

 Old Woman

 No more than five

 My dear, we all must stay alive!

 

 Whores

 Lovely ladies

 Waiting in the dark

 Ready for a thick one

 Or a quick one in the park

 Long time short time

 Any time, my dear

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

 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!

 

 Sailors Whores

 Lovely lady! Lovely ladies

 Fastest on the street Lovely little girls

 Wasn't there three minutes Lovely ladies

 She was back up on her feet Lovely little ladies

 Lovely lady! Lovely girlies

 What yer waiting for? Lovely little girls

 Doesn't take a lot of savvy We are lovely, lovely girls

 Just to be a whore Lovely ladies

 Come on, lady What's a lady for?

 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 1

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

 

 Whore 2

 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!

 

 Whores

 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!

 

 [Fantine goes off with one of the sailors.]

 

 That's right dearie, let him have the lot

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

 

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

 Harbor rats and alley cats and every type 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 shame that's in your head

 Don't they know they're making love

 To one already dead!