Artist: Les Miserables (Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alan Boublil)
Song: Prologue - Chain Gang
Album: Les Miserables Soundtrack [Original 1985]

Key: F minor

INTRO (and aahs): Fm - Eb/F - Ab/F - Bb/F

(CHAIN GANG)
 Fm
Look down, look down
 Eb/F
Don't look 'em in the eye
 Ab/F
Look down, look down
 Bb/F
You're here until you die

(CON 1)
 Fm
The sun, is strong
 Eb/F
It's hot as hell below

(CHAIN GANG)
 Ab/F
Look down, look down
 Bb/F
There's twenty years to go

(CON 2)
 Fm
I've done, no wrong
 Eb/F
Sweet Jesus hear my prayer

(CHAIN GANG)
 Ab/F
Look down, look down
 Bb/F
Sweet Jesus doesn't care

(CON 3)
 Ab
I know, she'll wait
 Eb
I know that she'll be true

(CHAIN GANG)
 Gb
Look down, look down
 Db
They've all forgotten you

(CON 3)
 Db
When I get free, you won't see me
 C
Here for dust

(CHAIN GANG)
 Fm
Look down, look down
 Eb/F
Don't look 'em in the eye

(CON 4)
 Ab/F
How long, oh lord
 Bb/F
Before you let me die?

(CHAIN GANG)
 Fm
Look down, look down
 Eb/F
You'll always be a slave
 Ab/F
Look down, look down
 Bb/F
You're standing in your grave

(JAVERT)
 Fm
Now bring me prisoner 24601
 Eb/F
Your time is up and your parole's begun
 Ab/F
You know what that means

(VALJEAN)
 Bb/F
Yes, it means I'm free

(JAVERT)
No!
 Fm
It means you get your yellow ticket of leave
 Eb/F
You are a thief

(VALJEAN)
I stole a loaf of bread

(JAVERT)
             Ab/F
You robbed a house

(VALJEAN)
                 Bb/F
I broke a window pane
 Ab
My sister's child was close to death
 Eb
And we were starving

(JAVERT)
                Gb
You will starve again
                                    Db
Unless you learn the meaning of the law

(VALJEAN)
 Db
I know the meaning of those nineteen years
                C
A slave, of the law

(JAVERT)
 Fm
Five years for what you did,
 Eb/F
The rest because you tried to run
 Ab/F
Yes 24601

(VALJEAN)
                  Bb/F
My name is Jean Valjean

(JAVERT)
 Fm
And I'm Javert
                 Eb/F
Do not forget my name
              Ab/F
Do not forget me
    Bb/F
24601

(CHAIN GANG)
 Fm
Look down, look down
 Eb/F
You'll always be a slave
 Ab/F
Look down, look down
 Bb/F
You're standing in your grave

OUTRO: Fm - Eb/F - Ab/F - Bb/F