Fantines Arrest

	  		
Intro 
Eb/Db Bb/F Eb/Db Dbmaj7 Dbmaj7(5b) 

N.C. 

Em Em/D Em/C# Em/C Bsus4 

Verse 
B       Em 
Tell me quickly what's the story 
        Em/D 
Who saw what and why and where? 
        Em/C#          Em/C 
Let him give a full description 
        Bsus4  B    Em 
Let him answer to Javert! 

Bridge 
   D7                       G 
Javert, would you believe it? 
      F                  C 
I was lost here in the dark 
          D7           G 
When this prostitute attacked me 
        F                B7 
You can see she left her mark 

Verse 
         Em 
She will answer for her actions 
     Em/D 
If you make a full report 
        Em/C#           Em/C 
You may rest assured, M'sieur, 
              Bsus4  B      Em 
That she will answer to the court. 

Bridge 
          D7               G 
There's a child who sorely needs me 
         F                     C 
Please M'sieur, she's but that high 
     D7               G 
Holy God, is there no mercy? 
     F                 B7 
If I go to jail she'll die! 

Verse 
       Em 
I have heard such protestations 
      Em/D 
Every day for twenty years 
           Em/C#         Em/C 
Let's have no more explainations 
          Bsus4  B          Em 
Save your breath, save your tears 
       G/D          Em/C# 
Honest work, just reward, 
           C      B          Em 
That's the way to please the Lord. 

Interlude 
Fm/C                  Gm7/D  
     A moment of your time, Javert 
Fm/C        Gm7/D              Fm/C 
     I do believe this woman's tale 

            Dbmaj7 
But M'sieur Mayor! 

Bbm                      
   You've done your duty 
Eb6/Bb 
Let her be 
Bbm            Cm7           Bbm 
   She needs a doctor, not a jail. 

            Gb 
But M'sieur Mayor! 

         Fm 
Can this be? 

      Gb       Fm 
Where will she end - 
     Gb              Am 
This child without a friend? 

C-Part 
                    Em 
I've seen your face before 
Am                     Em 
   Show me some way to help you 
F                      C/E 
  How have you come to grief 
   Gsus4        G  C 
In such a place as this? 

Fm                               Eb/G 
   M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray 
Abm                              Eb/Bb 
   It's hard enough I've lost my pride 
Cm                              Gm/Bb 
   You let your foreman send me away 
              Fm/Ab             Gsus4 G 
Yes, you were there, and turned aside 

C-Part 
Am                Em 
   I never did no wrong 

Em 
Is it true, what I have done? 

Am                        Em 
   My daughter's close to dying 

Em 
To an innocent soul? 

F                   C 
  If there's a God above 

C 
Had I only known then... 

     Gsus4        C 
He'd let me die instead 

Outro 
       Bb      Am7           Gm   Eb 
In His name my task has just begun 
       Dm7 
I will take her to the hospital 

            Eb 
But M'sieur Mayor! 

Dm7 Eb Dm7 

Eb            F 
I will see it done!