TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
Look (Gm)down and see the (F)beg gars at your feet.
Look (Gm7)down and show some (C)mer cy if you can.
Look (Gm)down and see the (F)sweep ings of the street.
Look (Gm7)down, look down, up (C)on your fel low man.
(Gm)’Ow do you do, my name’s Gav roche, (F)these are my peo ple, here’s my patch.
(Gm7)Not much to look at, noth ing posh, (C)noth ing that you’d call up to scratch.
(Bb)This is my school, my high so ci e ty, (F)here in the slums of St.
Mi chel.
(Ab)We live on crumbs of hum ble pi e ty, (Eb)tough on the teeth, but what the hell.
Think you’re poor?
Think you’re free?
(D)Fol low me, fol low me!
Look (Gm)down and show some (F)mer cy if you can.
Look (Gm7)down, look down, up (C)on your fel low man.
(Gm)There was a time we killed the king.
(F)We tried to change the world too fast.
(Gm7)Now we have got an oth er king.
(C)He is no bet ter than the last.
(Bb)This is the land that fought for lib er ty, (F)now when we fight, we fight for bread.
(Ab)Here is the thing a bout e qual i ty, (Eb)ev ’ry one’s e qual when they’re dead.
Take your place, take your chance, (E)Vive La France!
Vive La France!
Look (Am)down and show some (G)mer cy if you can.
Look (Am7)down, look down, up (D)on your fel low man.
(D5)When’s it gon na (C5)end?
(D5)When we gon na (C5)live?
(D5)Some thing’s got ta (C5)hap pen now, (Dm)some thing’s got ta (Bb)give.
It ’ll (Dm)come, it ’ll come, it ’ll come, it ’ll come.
Where are the (C)lead ers (Dm)of the (C)land?
(Dm)Where are the (C)swells who (Bb)run this (Am)show?
(Dm)On ly one (C)man, Gen (Dm)’ral La (C)marque,
(Dm)speaks for the (Am)peo ple (Bb)here be (Am)low.
(Gm)La marque is ill and fad ing fast, (Dm)won’t last the week out, so they say.
(E)With all the an ger in the land, (A)how long be fore the judge ment day, be fore we cut the fat ones (Bb)down to size?
Be fore the bar ri cades a (Gm)rise.
Look down, look down, don’t (F)look us in the eye!
Look (Gm7)down, look down, stay (C)here and you die!
(Am)Hey there Mon sieur, what’s new with you?
(G)Have n’t seen much of you of late.
(Am)Plan ning, no doubt, to change the world?
SONG INFO
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key
- Eb
- Tempo
- 88 BPM
- Plays
- 5
- Category
- Musical/Soundtrack
- Artist
- Claude-Michel Schonberg