On My Own

On My OwnLes Misérables

Frances Ruffelle, 1980.

Composer: Claude-Michel Schonberg

Writers: Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, John Caird,

Trevor Nunn, Jean-Marc Natel

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G Am Bb(no5) Am
G Am Bb(no5) Am
Bb Cm/G Dm/A Cm/G
Bb Cm/G Dm/A Cm/G
Cm Dm7 Cmadd2 Cmadd4
Dm D
G     And now I’m Amall alone aBbgain
Nowhere to Amturn, no one to Bbgo to
Cm/G Dm/A Cm/G
Bb     Without a Cmhome, without a Dmfriend
Without a Cm/Gface to say heCmllo to Dm7
Cmadd2       And Cmadd4now the night is Dmnear
Now I can Dmake believe he’s Ghere
Am/C Bb Am
Dm     Sometimes I Emwalk alone at F/Anight
When everyEmbody else is Fsleeping
Gm/Bb Am/C Gm/Bb
F     I think of Gm/Bbhim and then I’m Am/Chappy
With the Gm/Bbcompany I’m Gmkeeping
Am Bb
The city goes to Ambed
And I can Alive inside my Dhead
Em D G
Em7On my Down
PreEm/Dtending he’s beDside me D/C#
All aBmlone I E7walk with him till Amorning A/G#
WithGout him I F#7feel his arms aBmround me
And Emwhen I lose my way I close my Em/Deyes
And he has Afound me
In the Drain the Em/Dpavement shines like Dsilver D/C#
All the Bmlights are E7misty in the Ariver A/G#
In the Gdarkness the F#7trees are full of Bmstarlight
And Emall I see is him and me forEm/Dever and forAever
And I Bbknow it’s Ebm/Bbonly in my Bbmind Bb/A
That I’m Gmtalking to myGm/Fself and not to Ebhim
And alEmthough I know that he is Bblind B7
Still I Am7say there’s a C7way for us
I Flove him
But Gm/Fwhen the night is Fover F/E
He is Dmgone, the G7river’s just a Criver C/B
WithBbout him the Aworld around me Dmchanges
The Gmtrees are bare and everywhere
The Gm/Fstreets are full of Cstrangers
I Flove him
But Gm/Fevery day I’m F learning F/E
All my Dmlife I’ve G7only been preCtending C/B
WithBbout me, his Aworld will go on Dmturning
A Gmworld that’s full of happiness
That I have never Cknown
I Fadd2love him
I F7/Eblove him
I Dm7love him
But Bbm/Dbonly on my Fown