Les Miserables Musical Lyrics

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    WOMAN ONE
    Did you see them
    Going off to fight?

    WOMAN TWO
    Children of the barricade
    Who didn't last the night?

    WOMAN THREE
    Did you see them
    Lying where they died?
    Someone used to cradle them
    And kiss them when they cried.

    WOMAN FOUR
    Did you see them lying side by side?

    WOMAN FIVE
    Who will wake them?

    WOMAN SIX
    No one ever will.

    WOMAN TWO
    No one ever told them
    That a summer day can kill.

    WOMAN SEVEN
    They were schoolboys
    Never held a gun...
    Fighting for a new world
    That would rise up like the sun.

    WOMAN THREE
    Where's that new world now the fighting's done?

    WOMAN FOUR
    Nothing changes.

    WOMAN SEVEN
    Nothing ever will.

    WOMAN EIGHT
    Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.

    WOMAN SEVEN
    Same old story. What's the use of tears?

    WOMAN FIVE
    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!