Prologue - Chain Gang chords by Les Miserables

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: FF minor

INTRO (and aahs): F minorFm - Eb/FEb/F - Ab/F - Bb/FBb/F

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

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

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

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

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

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

(CHAIN GANG)
 GbGb
Look down, look down
 DbDb
They've all forgotten you

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(VALJEAN)
I stole a loaf of bread

(JAVERT)
       Ab/F
You robbed a house

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

(JAVERT)
        GbGb
You will starve again
                  DbDb
Unless you learn the meaning of the law

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

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

(VALJEAN)
         Bb/FBb/F
My name is Jean Valjean

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

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

OUTRO: F minorFm - Eb/FEb/F - Ab/F - Bb/FBb/F