When in the Les Miserables this was sang?
This was sang after the Revolution ended and many people had died. Female townspeople sang a song as they refused to welcome the schoolboys to their houses when they're knocking at their doors for help.
Woman 1
Did you see them
Going off to fight?
Woman 2
Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?
Woman 3
Did you see them
Lying where they died?
Someone used to cradle them
And kiss them when they cried.
Woman 4
Did you see them lying side by side?
Woman 5
Who will wake them?
Woman 6
No one ever will.
Woman 2
No one ever told them
That a summer day can kill.
Woman 7
They were schoolboys
Never held a gun...
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun.
Woman 3
Where's that new world now the fighting's done?
Woman 4
Nothing changes.
Woman 7
Nothing ever will.
Woman 8
Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.
Woman 7
Same old story. What's the use of tears?
Woman 5
What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?
All
Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning
Through the years.
Turning, turning, turning through the years
Minutes into hours and the hours into years.
Nothing changes. Nothing ever can
Round about the roundabout and back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!
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Lés Misérables Musical: Song Lyrics
De TodoA Compilation of remarkable Les Miserables songs, if you don't know Les Mis you should see this for a will to live- I don't own Les Miserables, all credits to Victor Hugo (LesMis Author), Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Albert Boublil, Jean Marc Natel, and...
