Lovely Ladies

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Sailor 1:
I smell women
Smell 'em in the air.
Think I'll drop my anchor
In that harbour over there.

Sailor 2:
Lovely ladies
I'll love ya til i'm broke
Seven months at sea
Can make you hungry for a poke.

Sailor 3:
Even stokers need a little stoke!

Women:
Lovely ladies
Waiting for a bite
Waiting for the customers
Who only come at night
Lovely ladies
Ready for the call
Standing up or lying down
Or any way at all.
Bargain prices up against the wall.

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!

Women:
Old men, young men, take 'em as they come,
Harbour rats and alley cats and every kind 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 hate
That's in your head!
Don't they know
They're making love to one already dead!

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