Do You Hear the People Sing?

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"Do You Hear the People Sing?" ("French: À la volonté du peuple", literally To the will of the people, in the original French version) is one of the principal and most recognisable songs from the 1980 musical Les Misérables. It is sung twice in the opening and closing section of the stage musical.

Overview

The song, composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel (original French lyrics), and Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics) is first sung in Act I by Enjolras and the other students at the ABC Cafe as they prepare themselves to launch a rebellion in the streets of Paris during the funeral procession of General Jean Maximilien Lamarque. The song is sung again in the finale as the concluding song or the d.c al fine of the musical. This second version, which immediately follows a number by Jean Valjean and others, is sung by the entire cast with revised lyrics, and becomes progressively louder and thunderous with each stanza.

The song is a revolutionary call for people to overcome adversity. The "barricades" referred to in the song are erected by the rebel students in the streets of Paris in the musical's second act. They are to draw the National Guard into combat and ignite a civilian uprising to overthrow the government, but their rebellion eventually fails.But in the finale this song transitions into a hymn when all anticipates a world full of peace,freedom,and liberation for all mankind.

Use in various languages

• The original French version of the musical did not end with the full ensemble singing this song; It only later became the musical's finale song when it was revamped for the English-language version.
• At a special concert marking the tenth anniversary of Les Misérables in 1995, "Do You Hear the People Sing?" was sung by 17 different actors who had played Jean Valjean around the world. Each actor sang a line of the song in his own language. The languages sung were English, French, German, Japanese, Hungarian, Swedish, Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, Czech, Danish, and Icelandic.
• Another unofficial adaptation of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" is in Turkish, named "Duyuyor Musun Bizi İşte Çapulcu'nun Sesi" and sang during Gezi Park Protests.^[1]

• In
  普通话) version: 民众呐喊^[2] is a singable translation authentic to the original English lyrics. Other Chinese dialects include Cantonese – 問誰未發聲 and Taiwanese – 你敢有聽着咱的歌
  versions are mixtures of dialect translation from the English lyrics and specific references to corresponding political protests (see below).
• In June 2013, in the aftermath of the
  Arabic: سامع صوت المقهورين).^[3] Another adaptation was created by Fabrica, an Egyptian theatrical team, in Egyptian dialect (سامع صوت الجماهير).^[4] The song, among few others from the musical, was performed on Albernameg (episode 27 – season 3) and aired on 14 June 2013.^[5]

There are unofficial adaptations of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" in Cantonese and Taiwanese, intended as actual protest songs; better known versions include "Asking Who That Hasn't Spoken Out" (問誰未發聲), written in Cantonese for Occupy Central with Love and Peace, and "Lí Kám Ū Thiann-tio̍h Lán Ê Kua" (你敢有聽着咱的歌) in Taiwanese Hokkien.^[6]

The song can be heard in protests in Hong Kong as recently as September 2019, when students sang this song over the national anthem during a secondary school's opening assembly.^[7][8][9] The song was initially removed on music platforms including QQ Music in mainland China because of its widespread usage in anti-extradition bill protests, while its English version was later removed from those platforms.^[10]

Aside from the aforementioned Cantonese and Taiwanese Hokkien adaptations,