Master of the House

**Master of the House** est une des chansons de la comédie musicale Les Misérables: The Musical et du film Les Misérables de Tom Hooper.

## Paroles

**BUVEUR 3 :**

Come on, you old pest

**BUVEUR 2 :**

Fetch a bottle of your best

**BUVEUR 1 :**

What's the nectar of the day?

[Monsieur Thénardier entre avec une flasque de vin.]

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

Here, try this lot

Guaranteed to hit the spot, or I'm not Thénardier

*BUVEURS :'*

Gissa glass of rum

Landlord, over here

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

[à lui-même] Right away, you scum

[aux clients] Right away, M'sieur

**RESTAURANTEUR 1 :**

God this place has gone to hell

**RESTAURANTEUR 2:**

So you tell me every year

**BUVEUR 6:**

Mine host Thénardier

He was there, so they say, at the field of Waterloo

**BUVEUR 7:**

Got there, it's true, when the fight was all through

**BUVEUR 1:**

But he knew just what to do

Crawling through the mud

So I've heard it said

Picking through the pockets of the English dead

**BUVEUR 8:**

He made a tidy score from the spoils of war

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

My band of soaks

My den of dissolutes

My dirty jokes, my always pissed as newts

My sons of whores spent their lives in my inn

Homing pigeons homing in

They fly through my doors

And their money's as good as yours

**RESTAURANTEUR 1 :**

Ain't got a clue what he put into this stew

Must've scraped it off the street

**RESTAURANTEUR 2 :**

God, what a wine

Chateau Neuf de Turpentine

Must've pressed it with his feet

**BUVEURS :**

Landlord, over here

Where's the bloody man?

One more for the road

One more slug o' gin

**FILLE :**

Just one more, or my old man is gonna do me in

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

[En train de saluer un nouveau client.]

Welcome, M'sieur

Sit yourself down

And meet the best innkeeper in town

As for the rest

All of them crooks

Rooking their guests and cooking the books

Seldom do you see

Honest men like me

A gent of good intent who's content to be

Master of the house

Doling out the charm

Ready with a handshake and an open palm

Tells a saucy tale

Makes a little stir

Customers appreciate a bon-viveur

Glad to do a friend a favour

Doesn't cost me to be nice

But nothing gets you nothing

Everything has got a little price

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

**MONISEUR THENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Master of the house

Quick to catch your eye

Never wants a passer-by to pass him by

Servant to the poor

Butler to the great

Comforter, philosopher and lifelong mate

Everybody's boon companion

Everybody's chaperone

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

But lock up your valises

Jesus, won't I skin you to the bone

[À un autre nouveau client.]

Enter, M'sieur

Lay down your load

Unlace your boots and rest from the road

[Prise de son sac.]

This weighs a ton

Travel's a curse

But here we strive to lighten your purse

Here the goose is cooked

Here the fat is fried

And nothing's overlooked till I'm satisfied

Food beyond compare

Food beyond belief

Mix it in a mincer and pretend it's beef

Kidney of a horse

Liver of a cat

Filling up the sausages with this and that

Residents are more than welcome

Bridal suite is occupied

Reasonable charges plus some little extras on the side

Charge 'em for the lice

Extra for the mice

Two per cent for looking in the mirror twice

Here a little slice

There a little cut

Three per cent for sleeping with the window shut

When it comes to fixing prices

There are lots of tricks he knows

How it all increases

All them bits and pieces

Jesus, it's amazing how it grows

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Master of the house

Quick to catch your eye

Never wants a passer-by to pass him by

Servant to the poor

Butler to the great

Comforter, philosopher and life-long mate

Everybody's boon companion

Gives 'em everything he's got

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

Dirty bunch of geezers

Jesus, what a sorry little lot

**MADAME THENARDIER :**

I used a dream that I would meet a prince

But God Almighty, have you seen what's happened since?

"Master of the house"

Isn't worth me spit

"Comforter, philosopher" - and lifelong shit

Cunning little brain

Regular Voltaire

Thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there

What a cruel trick of nature

Landed me with such a louse

God knows how I've lasted living with this bastard in the house

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Master of the house

**MADAME THENARDIER:**

Master and a half

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Comforter, philosopher

**MADAME THENARDIER :**

Don't make me laugh

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Servant to the poor

Butler to the great

**MADAME THENARDIER :**

Hypocrite and toady and inebriate

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Everybody bless the landlord

Everybody bless his spouse

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

Everybody raise a glass

**MADAME THENARDIER:**

Raise it up the master's arse

**TOUS :**

Everybody raise a glass to the master of the house

### Versino film 2012

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**MADAME THENARDIER (parlée) :**

Wakey, wakey. We're opening.

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

My band of soaks

My den of dissolutes

My dirty jokes, my always pissed as newts

My sons of whores

Spent their lives in my inn

Homing pigeons homing in

They fly through my doors

And they crawl out on all fours

[En train de saluer un nouveau client.]

Welcome, M'sieur

Sit yourself down

And meet the best innkeeper in town

As for the rest

All of them crooks

Rooking their guests and cooking the books

Seldom do you see

Honest men like me

A gent of good intent who's content to be

Master of the house

Doling out the charm

Ready with a handshake and an open palm

Tells a saucy tale

Makes a little stir

Customers appreciate a bon-viveur

Glad to do a friend a favour

Doesn't cost me to be nice

But nothing gets you nothing

Everything has got a little price

Master of the house

Keeper of the zooReady 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

**THENARIDER & CHŒUR :**

Master of the house

Quick to catch your eye

Never wants a passer-by to pass him by

Servant to the poor

Butler to the great

Comforter, philosopher and lifelong mate

Everybody's boon companion

Everybody's chaperone

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

But lock up your valises

Jesus, won't I skin you to the bone

Food beyond compare

Food beyond belief

Mix it in a mincer and pretend it's beef

Kidney of a horse

Liver of a cat

Filling up the sausages with this and that

Residents are more than welcome

Bridal suite is occupied

Reasonable charges plus some little extras on the side

Charge 'em for the lice

Extra for the mice

Two per cent for looking in the mirror twice (Hand it over!)

Here a little slice

There a little cut

Three per cent for sleeping with the window shut

When it comes to fixing prices

There are lots of tricks I knows

How it all increases

All those bits and pieces

Jesus, it's amazing how it grows

**MADAME THENARDIER:**

I dreamed a dream that I would meet a prince

But God Almighty,

Have you seen what's happened since?

"Master of the house"

Isn't worth my spit

"Comforter, philosopher" and lifelong shit

Cunning little brain

Regular Voltaire

Thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there

What a cruel trick of nature

Landed me with such a louse

God knows how I've lasted living with this bastard in the house

**THENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Master of the house

**MADAME THENARDIER :**

Master and a half

**HENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Comforter, philosopher

**MADAME THENARDIER:**

Don't make me laugh

**HENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Servant to the poor

Butler to the great

**MADAME THENARDIER :**

Hypocrite and toady and inebriate

**HENARDIER & CHŒUR :**

Everybody bless the landlord

Everybody bless his spouse

**MONSIEUR THENARDIER :**

Everybody raise a glass

**MADAME THENARDIER :**

Raise it up the master's arse

**TOUS:**

Everybody raise a glass to the master of the house