| Students, workers, everyone
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| There’s a river on the run
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| Like the flowing of the tide
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| Paris coming to our side!
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| The time is near
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| So near it’s stirring the blood in their veins!
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| And yet beware
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| Don’t let the wine go to your brains!
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| For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
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| With the men and the arms that we never can match
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| It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies
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| But the national guard will be harder to catch.
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| We need a sign
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| To rally the people
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| To call them to arms
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| To bring them in line!
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| Marius, you’re late.
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| And what’s wrong today?
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| You look as if you’ve seen a ghost.
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| Some wine and say what’s going on!
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| A ghost you say… a ghost maybe
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| She was just like a ghost to me
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| One minute there, then she was gone!
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| I am agog!
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| I am aghast!
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| Is Marius in love at last?
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| I’ve never heard him 'ooh' and 'aah'
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| You talk of battles to be won
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| And here he comes like Don Ju-an
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| It’s better than an o-per-a!
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| It is time for us all
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| To decide who we are
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| Do we fight for the right
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| To a night at the opera now?
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| Have you asked of yourselves
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| What’s the price you might pay?
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| Is it simply a game
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| For rich young boys to play?
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| The color of the world
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| Is changing day by day…
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| Red — the blood of angry men!
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| Black — the dark of ages past!
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| Red — a world about to dawn!
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| Black — the night that ends at last!
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| Had you been there today
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| You might know how it feels
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| To be struck to the bone
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| In a moment of breathless delight!
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| Had you been there today
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| You might also have known
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| How the world may be changed
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| In just one burst of light!
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| And what was right seems wrong
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| And what was wrong seems right!
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| Red…
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| I feel my soul on fire!
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| Black…
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| My world if she’s not there!
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| Red…
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| The color of desire!
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| Black…
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| The color of despair!
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| Marius, you’re no longer a child
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| I do not doubt you mean it well
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| But now there is a higher call.
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| Who cares about your lonely soul?
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| We strive toward a larger goal
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| Our little lives don’t count at all!
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| Red — the blood of angry men!
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| Black — the dark of ages past!
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| Red — a world about to dawn!
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| Black — the night that ends at last!
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| Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?
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| Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short.
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| Grantaire, put the bottle down!
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| Do we have the guns we need?
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| Give me brandy on my breath
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| And I’ll breathe them all to death!
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| In St. Antoine they’re with us to a man!
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| In Notre Dame they’re tearing up the stones!
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| Twenty rifles good as new!
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| (Gavroche rushes in shouting)
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| Listen!
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| Twenty rounds for every man!
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| Listen to me!
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| Double that in Port St. Cloud!
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| Listen everybody!
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| Seven guns in St. Martin!
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| General Lamarque is dead!
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| Lamarque is dead.
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| Lamarque! |
| His death is the hour of fate.
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| The people’s man.
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| His death is the sign we await!
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| On his funeral day they will honor his name.
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| Light of rebellion ablaze in their eyes
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| In the candles of weak we will kindle our flame
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| To the tune of our march shall our barricade rise.
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| The time is here!
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| Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer
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| Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts
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| With jubilant shout
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| They will come one and all
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| They will come when we cal |