The Confrontation
| [JAVERT] | f |
| Valjean, at last, | f |
| We see each other plain | Dis/F |
| `M'sieur le Mayor,' | f |
| You'll wear a different chain! | B/F f |
| [VALJEAN] | |
| Before you say another word, Javert | f |
| Before you chain me up like a slave again | Dis/F |
| Listen to me! There is something I must do. | f B/F |
| This woman leaves behind a suffering child. | f |
| There is none but me who can intercede, | Dis/F |
| In Mercy's name, three days are all I need. | f B/F |
| Then I'll return, I pledge my word. | Gis |
| Then I'll return... | Dis |
| [JAVERT] | |
| You must think me mad! | Dis |
| I've hunted you across the years | Fis |
| A man like you can never change | Cis(sus4?) |
| A man such as you. | Cis c |
| Men like me can never change / Believe of me what you will | f |
| Men like you can never change / There is a duty that I'm sworn to do | Dis/F |
| No, / You know nothing of my life | f |
| 24601 / All I did was steal some bread | B/F |
| My duty's to the law - you have no rights / You know nothing of the world | f |
| Come with me 24601 / You would sooner see me dead | Dis/F |
| Now the wheel has turned around / But not before I see this justice | f |
| Jean Valjean is nothing now / done | B/F |
| Dare you talk to me of crime / I am warning you Javert | f |
| And the price you had to pay / I'm a stronger man by far | Dis/F |
| Every man is born in sin / There is power in me yet | f |
| Every man must choose his way / My race is not yet run | B/F |
| You know nothing of Javert / I am warning you Javert | f |
| I was born inside a jail / There is nothing I won't dare | Dis/F |
| I was born with scum like you / If I have to kill you here | f |
| I am from the gutter too! / I'll do what must be done! | B/F |
| Cis(sus4) | |
| [VALJEAN] | F F/E |
| [to Fantine] And this I swear to you tonight | d7 F/C B |
| [JAVERT] | |
| [to Valjean] There is no place for you to hide | B/A |
| [VALJEAN] | |
| Your child will live within my care | g7 C F |
| [JAVERT] | |
| Wherever you may hide away | F d |
| [VALJEAN] | |
| And I will raise her to the light. | F/C B(maj7) |
| [VALJEAN AND JAVERT] | |
| I swear to you, I will be there! | C F |