Fantine's Arrest

**Fantine's Arrest** est une des chansons de la comédie musical Les Misérables: The Musical.

## Paroles

**BAMATABOIS :**

Here's something new. I think I'll give it a try.

Come closer, you!

I like to see what I buy...

The ususal price

For just one slice of your pie.

**FANTINE :**

I don’t want you. No, no, M'sieur, let me go.

**BAMATABOIS :**

Is this a trick? I won’t pay more!

**FANTINE :**

No, not at all.

**BAMATABOIS :**

You've got some nerve, you little whore,

You've got some gall.

It's the same with a tart

As it is with a grocer

The customer sees what he gets in advance

It's not for the whore to say 'yes sir' or 'no sir'

It's not for the harlot to pick and to choose

Or to lead me a dance!

[Fantine frappe Bamatabois.]

**FANTINE :**

I'll kill you, you bastard, try any of that!

Even a whore who has gone to the bad

Won't be had by a rat!

**BAMATABOIS :**

By Christ you'll pay for what you've done

This rat will make you bleed you'll see!

I guarantee, I'll make you suffer

For this disturbance of peace

For this insult to life and property!

**FANTINE :**

I beg you, don't report me, sir

I'll do whatever you may want...

**BAMATABOIS :**

Make your excuse to the police!

**JAVERT :**

Tell me quickly what's the story

Who saw what, and why, and where?

Let him give a full description.

Let him answer to Javert!

In this nest of whores and vipers

Let one speak who saw it all.

Who laid hands on this good man here?

What's the substance of this brawl?

**BAMATABOIS :**

Javert, would you believe it

I was crossing from the park

When this prostitute attacked me

You can see she left her mark.

**JAVERT :**

She will answer for her actions

When you make a full report.

You may rest assured, M'sieur

That she will answer to the court.

**FANTINE :**

There's a child who sorely needs me

Please M'sieur, she's but 'that high'

Holy God, is there no mercy?

If I go to jail she'll die!

**JAVERT :**

I have heard such protestations

Every day for twenty years.

Let’s have no more explanations,

Save your breath and save your tears.

'Honest work. Just reward. That's the way to please the Lord'.

**M. MADELEINE :**

A moment of your time, Javert

I do believe this woman's tale.

**JAVERT :**

But M'sieur Mayor!

**M. MADELEINE :**

You've done your duty

Let her be

She needs a doctor, not a jail

**JAVERT :**

But M'sieur Mayor!

**FANTINE :**

Can this be?

**M. MADELEINE :**

Where will she end –

This child without a friend

I've seen your face before

Show me some way to help you

How have you come to grief

In such a place as this?

**FANTINE :**

M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray

It's hard enough I've lost my pride!

You let your foreman send me away

Yes, you were there and turned aside

[Fantine crache sur le visage de Valjean.]

I never did no wrong!

**M. MADELEINE :**

Is it true, what I've done?

**FANTINE :**

My daughter's close to dying...

**M. MADELEINE :**

To an innocent soul?

**FANTINE :**

If there's a God above

**M. MADELEINE :**

Had I only known then.

**FANTINE :**

He'd let me die instead.

**M. MADELEINE:**

In His name my task has just begun.

I will see it done.

**JAVERT :**

But M'sieur Mayor!

**M. MADELEINE :**

I will see it done!

**JAVERT :**

But M'sieur Mayor!

**M.MADELEINE :**

I will see it done!