Ballade Pour Cosette

Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, I hear you singing
Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, I hear you crying
Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, you, little girl abandoned
By this life that left you
With wicked people, the Thénardiers

Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, one day a man dressed in black
Came and recognized you
Cosette, you left, Cosette, traveling the main road to Paris
And it was there, next to him, that you got to grow up

He was not your father
He didn't have any children
But one day, he swore
To your mother

Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, to give you everything
Love, education, irregardless of expense
Cosette, Cosette, one night
When Paris was ablaze with cannon fire
He brought back to a relative
A young man who was dying

Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, you married
That boy who he had just saved
Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, he never told you two about it
And far from him, you both have gotten away

Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, before leaving
For his last journey, he got to tell you
How, one day, Cosette
You arrived in his life
And everything your ma told him
Before she left for paradise

Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, it was a long time ago
That this beautiful novel, Cosette, was put together
But when I hear, Cosette
Gavroche's voice resonate
My heart gets closer to you all

Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, I hear you singing
Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, I hear you crying
Cosette, Cosette, Cosette, you see, you are no longer abandoned
By life that cared for you, Cosette