The Second Attack (Death Of Gavroche)
[The battle recommences.]
[ENJOLRAS]
Fire!
[Instrumental interlude]
[ENJOLRAS]
How do we stand, Feuilly?
Make your report
[FEUILLY]
We've guns enough
But ammunition's short
[MARIUS]
Let me go into the streets
There are bodies all around
Ammunition to be had
Lots of bullets to be found!
[ENJOLRAS]
I won't let you go;
It's too much of a chance!
[MARIUS]
And the same is true for any man here!
[VALJEAN]
Let me go, he's no more than a boy
I am old, I have nothing to fear
[GAVROCHE]
You need somebody quicker and I volunteer!
[Gavroche climbs to the other side of the barricade.]
[BOSSUET]
Come back, Gavroche, don't you dare!
[JOLY]
Someone pull him down at once!
[GAVROCHE]
Look at me, I'm almost there!
[A gunshot. It misses.]
[GAVROCHE (collecting ammunition from bodies)]
Little people know
When little people fight
We may look easy pickings
But we've got some bite!
[Another shot. This time, Gavroche is hit.]
[GAVROCHE (pained)]
...So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup....
[Gavroche is shot again.]
[GAVROCHE (struggling)]
....We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up!
[Gavroche throws the ammunition to the students.]
[GAVROCHE (weakly)]
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows—
[A final shot. Gavroche dies.]
