While the City Slumbered

While the City Slumbered is a song from the North American version of the musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The song reprises the Kyrie eleison leitmotif as well as the bridge from "Out There" in its melody.
The song narrates what happens to a chained and despairing Quasimodo the night before Esmeralda is to be executed.
==Lyrics==
Chorus:
Kyrie eleison
Congregants:
While the city slumbered
Quasimodo sat awake
As the night crept pitilessly onward
Not one word he uttered
Not one movement did he make
Awaiting the inexorable dawn
Chorus:
Kyrie eleison
Category:The Hunchback of Notre Dame songs
Category:Musical songs
Category:Hero/Heroine songs
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