Under The Sea

Album: The Little Mermaid Soundtrack (1989)
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  • Okay, okay, listen to me
    The human world is a mess
    Life under the sea
    Is better than anything they got goin' on up there

    The seaweed is always greener
    In somebody else's lake
    You dream about going up there
    But that is a big mistake
    Just look at the world around you
    Right here on the ocean floor
    Such wonderful things surround you
    What more is you lookin' for?

    Under the sea
    Under the sea
    Darling it's better
    Down where it's wetter
    Take it from me
    Up on the shore they work all day
    Out in the sun they slave away
    While we devotin'
    Full time to floatin'
    Under the sea

    Down here all the fish is happy
    As off through the waves they roll
    The fish on the land ain't happy
    They sad 'cause they in their bowl
    But fish in the bowl is lucky
    They in for a worser fate
    One day when the boss get hungry
    Guess who gon' be on the plate?

    Oh, no
    Under the sea
    Under the sea
    Nobody beat us
    Fry us and eat us
    In fricassee
    We what the land folks loves to cook
    Under the sea we off the hook
    We got no troubles
    Life is the bubbles
    Under the sea (under the sea)
    Under the sea (under the sea)

    Yes, child, since life is sweet here
    We got the beat here
    Naturally (naturally)
    Even the sturgeon and the ray
    They get the urge 'n start to play
    We got the spirit
    You got to hear it
    Under the sea

    Watch this
    The newt play the flute
    The carp play the harp
    The plaice play the bass
    And they soundin' sharp
    The bass play the brass
    The chub play the tub
    The fluke is the duke of soul
    Yeah!
    The ray he can play
    The lings on the strings
    The trout rockin' out
    The blackfish she sings
    The smelt and the sprat
    They know where it's at
    And oh, that blowfish blow

    Yeah, under the sea (under the sea)
    Under the sea (under the sea)
    When the sardine
    Begin the beguine
    It's music to me (music, it's to me)
    What do they got? A lot of sand
    We got a hot crustacean band
    Each little clam here
    Know how to jam here
    Under the sea
    Each little slug here
    Cuttin' a rug here
    Under the sea
    Each little snail here
    Know how to wail here
    That's why it's hotter
    Under the water
    Ya, we in luck here
    Down in the muck here
    Under the sea Writer/s: Alan Menken, Howard Elliott Ashman
    Publisher: Walt Disney Music Company
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Sulistiya from Arema, IndonesiaI used the song for my 8 graders school students when we talked about sea creatures. We played the tune, and I found that all students were absorbed.Really wonderful song and students loved to listen again and again. Awesome!!!!
  • George from Calumet City, IlWonderful song.
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