[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