The Lyrics of "Les Miserables" Quiz

Answer: You were lodging here last night.

The two Constables (C1 and C2) sing 'Prologue: Valjean Arrested'. The song goes as follows:

C1: "Tell his reverence your story."
C2: "Let us see if he's impressed."
C1: "You were lodging here last night."
C2: "You were the honest Bishop's guest."
C1: "And then out of Christian goodness, when he learned about your plight."
C2: "You maintained he made a present of this silver."
Bishop: "That is right."

Answer: There's a kid that she's hiding in some little town.

Fantine is working at the factory when a letter arrives for her from the Thenardiers, asking her for more money. One of the other women working at the factory steals the letter, reads it aloud, accuses Fantine of being a prostitute (which she does become later), and starts a fight. After Valjean arrives and breaks up the fight, the woman explains to the Valjean's Foreman what the situation is. The song goes as follows:

"At the end of the day she's the one who began it. There's a kid that she's hiding in some little town. There's a man she has to pay. You can guess how she picks up the extra. You can bet she's earning her keep sleeping around, and the boss wouldn't like it."

Answer: He filled my days with endless wonder.

Fantine sings, in the middle of 'I Dreamed I Dream', about Cosette's father:

"He slept a summer by my side. He filled my days with endless wonder. He took my childhood in his stride, but he was gone when autumn came. And still I dream he'll come to me, that we would live the years together. But there are dreams that could not be, and there are storms we cannot weather."

Answer: Don't it make a change to have a girl who can't refuse.

Fantine comes back to sing in 'Lovely Ladies' after she has gone off to sleep with a man. She sings:

"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?"

Answer: Why should I save his hide?

Javert has just informed Valjean "Monsieur Mayor" that he has caught Jean Valjean, and the man will go to trial that day. Valjean is off the hook. He then sings 'Who am I?', beginning:

"He thinks that man is me. Without a second glance. This stranger he has found. This man could be my chance! Why should I save his hide? Why should I right this wrong? When I have come so far, and struggled for so long? If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!"

Answer: There are a hundred boys and girls.

Young Cosette walks out on stage for the first time to the song 'Castle on a Cloud'. The song begins as follows:

"There is a castle on a cloud. I like to go there in my sleep. Aren't any floors for me to sweep. Not in my castle on a cloud. There is a room that's full of toys. There are a hundred boys and girls. Nobody shouts or talks too loud. Not in my castle on a cloud."

Answer: Ready to relieve 'em of a sou or two.

This line appears in the middle of Monsieur Thenardier's song about being a crooked innkeeper. The lines go as follows:

"Master of the house, keeper of the zoo. Ready to relieve 'em of a sou or two. Watering the wine, making up the weight, pickin' up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight. Everybody loves a landlord. Everybody's bosom friend! I do whatever pleases, Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end!"

Answer: Here in the slums of Saint Michel.

Gavroche introduces himself to the audience in 'Look Down'. His part goes as follows:

"'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche. These are my people, here's my patch. Not much to look at, nothing posh. Nothing that you'd call up to scratch. This is my school, my high society, here in the slums of Saint Michel. We live on crumbs of humble piety. Tough on the teeth but what the hell?! Think you're poor? Think you're free? Follow me. Follow me!"

Answer: Won't last the week out, so they say.

There are several different versions of this "duet" within the song of 'Look Down'. The lines sung by Marius and Enjolras appear to be interchangeable, so the lyrics listed below are not by name, but solely in the order they appear, regardless of who is singing the lines. The duet goes as follows:

1: "Where are the leaders of the land? Where are the swells who run this show?"
2: "Only one man, and that's Lamarque, speaks for the people here below."
3: "Lamarque is ill and fading fast! Won't last the week out, so they say."
4: "With all the anger in the land, how long before the judgement day? Before we cut the fat ones down to size? Before the barricades arise?"

Answer: Don't judge a girl on how she looks.

This scene with Marius (M) and Eponine (E) occurs just after the conclusion of 'Look Down', when the Thenardiers are orchestrating the robbery of Valjean. Marius begins as follows:

M: "Hey Eponine, what's up today? I haven't seen you much about."
E: "Here you can always catch me in."
M: "Mind the police don't catch you out!"
E: "'Ere, wotcher do with all them books? I could have been a student too! Don't judge a girl on how she looks. I know a lot of things, I do."
M: "Poor Eponine, the things you know, you wouldn't find in books like these."
E: "I like the way you grow your hair."
M: "I like the way you always tease."
E: "Little he knows! Little he sees!"

Answer: Shall have their reward.

Javert sings 'Stars' after the attempted robbery of Jean Valjean by Thenardier. Thenardier tells Javert who Valjean really is, and Javert dreams of catching him. He sings as follows:

"He knows his way in the dark. Mine is the way of the Lord. And those who follow the path of the righteous shall have their reward. And if they fall as Lucifer fell, the flame, the sword! Stars, in your multitudes, filling the darkness, with order and light...you are the sentinels, silent and sure, keeping watch in the night. Keeping watch in the night."

Answer: Had you been there tonight, you might also have known.

Just before Marius begins to sing, Grantaire makes fun of him because he's never seen Marius in love before. Marius sings:

"Had you been there tonight, you might know how it feels, to be struck to the bone in a moment of breathless delight! Had you been there tonight, you might also have known, how the world may be changed with just one burst of light! And what was right seems wrong, and what was wrong seems right."

Answer: Some will fall and some will live.

This song immediately follows 'Red and Black', and occurs at the ABC Cafe. It is begun by Enjolras, followed by Combeferre. Feuilly sings the fourth verse:

"Will you give all you can give so that our banner may advance. Some will fall and some will live. Will you stand up and take your chance? The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France!"

In the verses before and after Feuilly sings (the third and fifth), all of the students, and their women, sing:

"Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes!"

Answer: He was never mine to lose.

At the point in the song where the above lines are sung, Marius, Cosette, and Eponine are all singing. Eponine is singing in counterpoint to Marius and Cosette. Eponine's lines are, in order:

1: "He was never mine to lose."
2: "Why regret what could not be?"
3: "These are words he'll never say."
4: "Not to me. Not to me. Not for me."
5: "He will never feel this way."

Answer: Dear God, what'll I do?

This scene is sometimes left out of the stage production. Outside Valjean and Cosette's home on the Rue Plumet, and after Montparnasse informs Eponine that her father's gang is coming to rob Valjean, Eponine sings the following (the "he" she refers to is Marius):

"Oh Lord, somebody, help me! Dear God, what'll I do? He'll think this is an ambush. He'll think I'm in it too. What'll I do? What'll I say? I've got to warn them here. I've got find a way."

Answer: At the barricades of freedom.

The above lines are sung by Marius (M) and Enjolras (E), in the following order:

E: "One more day before the storm."
M: "Do I follow as she goes?"
E: "At the barricades of freedom."
M: "Shall I join my brothers there?"
E: "When our ranks begin to form."
M: "Do I stay and do I dare?"
E: "Will you take your place with me?"

Answer: And now the night is near. Now I can make believe he's here.

Eponine has just delivered Marius's note to Jean Valjean and is walking back through the streets of Paris toward the barricade. She is singing to herself. 'On My Own' begins with:

"And now I'm all alone again, nowhere to turn, no one to go to. Without a home without a friend, without a face to say 'hello' to. And now the night is near. Now I can make believe he's here. Sometimes I walk alone at night when everybody else is sleeping. I think of him and then I'm happy with the company I'm keeping. The city goes to bed and I can live inside my head."

Answer: This is where it begins.

The Friends of the ABC sing 'Upon These Stones' as they prepare for the first attack on the barricade singing:

All: "And now we pledge ourselves to hold this barricade."
Marius: "Let them come in their legions and they will be met."
Enjolras: "Have faith in yourselves and do not be afraid."
Grantaire: "Let's give 'em a screwin' they'll never forget."
Combeferre: "This is where it begins."
Courfeyrac: "And if I should die in the fight to be free...where the fighting is hardest, there will I be."
Feuilly: "Let them come if they dare. We'll be there!
Joly (about Javert): "He is back!"
Javert then begins with his report of the enemy.

Answer: Eponine, you're hurt!

After Eponine climbs down the interior side of the barricade, and tells Marius that she gave the letter to Cosette's father, she says she can't stand anymore and falls to the ground. Marius catches her and sings:

"Eponine, what's wrong? There's something wet upon your hair. Eponine, you're hurt! You need some help. Oh God, it's everywhere!"

Eponine responds with: "Don't you fret, Monsieur Marius." and begins 'A Little Fall of Rain'.

Answer: We fight here in her name.

Many Friends of the ABC and Marius sing immediately following the death of Eponine at the barricade. The lines sung in order are as follows:

Enjolras: "She is the first to fall. The first of us to fall upon this barricade."
Marius: "Her name was Eponine. Her life was cold and dark yet she was unafraid."
Combeferre: "We fight here in her name.
Jean Prouvaire: "She will not die in vain."
Lesgles: "She will not be betrayed."

Answer: Sing with me the songs we knew.

Feuilly and Grantaire both sing solos in 'Drink With Me'. Joly and Jean Prouvaire also have lines. The song begins as follows, with Feuilly singing first:

Enjolras speaks: "Marius, rest."
Feuilly: "Drink with me, to days gone by. Sing with me the songs we knew."
Joly: "Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads."
Jean Prouvaire: "Here's to witty girls who went to our beds."
Feuilly, Joly, and Prouvaire: "Here's to them, and here's to you."

Everyone sings, then Grantaire has his solo:
"Drink with me, to days gone by. Can if be you fear to die? Will the world remember you when you fall? Can it be your death means nothing at all? Is your life just one more lie?"

Answer: He is young, he is only a boy.

In Victor Hugo's novel, Jean Valjean does not like Marius, but in the musical production he sends up a prayer to God to save Marius at the barricade. He sings the following lines to end the song:

"Bring him peace, bring him joy. He is young, he is only a boy. You can take, you can give! Let him be, let him live. If I die, let me die! Let him live. Bring him home. Bring him home. Bring him home!"

The line "Let him rest, heaven blessed" appears earlier in the song.

Answer: There's a pain goes on and on.

All of Marius's friends have perished at the barricade, and Marius alone survived. Marius is in the hospital recovering from his injuries, and dreams himself into being at the ABC Cafe. While he's there, the ghosts of his friends appear around him. Marius sings 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables' remembering his friends. The lines above are toward the very end of the song, in order as follows:

"Of my friends, my friends, forgive me. That I live and you are gone. There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain goes on and on. Phantom faces at the window. Phantom shadows on the floor. Empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends will meet no more. Oh my friends, my friends! Don't ask me! What your sacrifice was for! Empty chairs...at empty tables. Now my friends...will sing...no more."

Answer: Paris at my feet.

The Thenardiers have shown up at the reception to Marius and Cosette's wedding, in the hopes of blackmailing Marius with information that they have. Unknowingly, they let slip to Marius who it was who saved him the night the barricade fell. Marius tells them to leave, and they proceed to sing 'Beggars at the Feast' as follows:

"Ain't it a laugh? Ain't it a treat? Hob-nobbin' here among the elite? Here comes a prince. There goes a Jew. This one's a queer, but what can you do? Paris at my feet. Paris in the dust. And here's me breaking bread with the upper crust! Beggar at the feast! Master of the dance! Life is easy pickings if you grab your chance."

Answer: Forgive me all my trespasses and take me to your glory.

Valjean is on his deathbed and has just said goodbye to his daughter, Cosette, leaving her a letter about those who always loved her. Valjean pleads with God to let him into heaven, not believing, even after all the good he did in his life, that he actually deserves it. The lines go as follows:

Fantine's Ghost: "Come with me, where chains will never bind you. All your grief, at last, at last behind you. Lord in Heaven, look down on him in mercy."
Valjean: "Forgive me all my trespasses and take me to your glory."
Fantine's and Eponine's Ghosts: "Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation. Take my love, for love is everlasting."
All three: "And remember the truth that once was spoken: to love another person is to see the face of God!"

The line "Bring me home, bring me home" is from earlier in the song, before Cosette arrives to see her dying father.