PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
047 - I Dreamed A Dream
Verse 1
^ I dreamed a dream in time gone by
^ when hope was high and life worth liv-ing
^ I dreamed that love would nev-er die
^ I dreamed that God would be for-giv-ing.
Verse 2
^ Then I was young and un-a-fraid (diction ‘D’)
^ when dreams were made and used and wa-sted. (diction all ‘D’s)
^ There was no ran-som to be paid (diction ‘D’)
^ No song un-sung no wine un-tast-ed. (diction ‘D’)
Bridge
^ But the ti-gers come at night, (diction ‘T’)
^ with their voi-ces soft as thun-der
^ as they tear your hope a-part (diction ‘T’)
^ as they turn your dream to sha (-ey-ey-ey) -ame (sing over 3 x bars)
Verse 4
^ He slept a sum-mer by my side,
^ he filled my days with end-less won-der.
^ He took my child-hood in his stride
^ but he was gone when au-tumn came.
Key change
Verse 5
^ And still I dreamed he’d come to me
^ that we would live the years to-geth-er,
^ but there are dreams that can-not be
^ and there are storms we can-not weather
Verse 6
(first line instrumental)
^ (triplet) I had a dream my life would be
^ so diff’- rent from this hell I’m li-v-ing, so diff’- rent now from what it seemed
^ now life has killed the dream (pause) I dreamed.
A song from the musical Les Misérables, words Herbert Kretzmer, music Claude-Michel Schonberg