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| The ABC Cafe- Red and Black |
| COMBEFERRE At Notre Dame the sections are prepared! FEUILLY At rue de bac they're straing at the lesh! COURFEYRAC Students work is eveyone there's a river on the run like the flowing of the tide Paris coming to our side! ENJOLRAS The time is near so near it's stirring the blood in their viens and yet beware don't let the wine go to your brains!For the army we fight is a dangerous foe with the men and the arms that we never could match it easy to sit here and swat 'em like flys but the national guard will be harder to catch! We need a sign to rally the people to call them to arms and to bring them in line! Marius your late! JOLY what's wrong today? You look as if you've seen a ghost! GRANTAIRE Some wine and say whats going on MARIUS A ghost you say a ghost maybe she was just like a ghost to me one minute there...then she was gone! GRANTAIRE I am a gog! I am aghast! is Marius in love at last? I've never seen him oh and ah! You talk of battles to be won, and here he comes like Don Ju-an It's better than an O-per-a! ENJOLRAS It is time for us all to decide who we are do we fght for the right to a night at the opera now? Have you asked yourselfs whats the price you might pay? Is this simply a game for rich young boys to play? The colour of the world is changing day by day! Red- the blood of angry men! Black- The dark of ages past! Red- A world about to dawn! Black- The night that ends at last! MARIUS Had you been there tonight you might know how it feels to be struck to the bone in a moment of breathless delight! Had you been there tonight you might also have known how your world may be changed in just one burst of light and what was right seems wrong and what was wrong seems right! GRANTAIRE Red! MARIUS I feel my soul on fire! GRANTAIRE Black! MARIUS My world if she's not there! ALL Red! MARIUS The colour of desire ALL Black! MARIUS The colour of despair! ENJOLRAS Marius! your no longer a child I do not doubt you mean it well but now there is a higher call! Who cares about your lonely soul? We strive towards a larger goal! Our little lives don't count at all! ALL Red the blood of angry men! Black the dark of ages past! Red a world about to dawn! Black a night that ends at last! ENJOLRAS Well Courfeyrac do we have all the guns we need? Feuilly compare our time is runnin short. Grantaire put the bottle down!Do we have the guns we need? GRANTAIRE Give me brandy on my breath and I'll breathe them all to death! COURFEYRAC At Saint Antoine they're with us to a man! FEUILLY At Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones! GAVROCHE Listen! JOLY Twenty rounds for everyman! GAVROCHE Listen to me! JEAN PROUVAIRE Double that in Port St. Cloud GAVROCHE Listen Everybody!!!!! LESGLES Seven guns in St. Martin! GAVROCHE General Larmaque is dead! ENJOLRAS Lamarque is dead! Lamarque his death is the hour of fate! The peoples man his death is the sign we await!On the funeral day they will honour his name!It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear! In the death of Larmarque we will kindle the flame they will see that the day of salvation is here!The time is here let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer!Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts! But a jubliant shout they will come one and all they will come when we call! |
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