Under The Sea

Album: The Little Mermaid Soundtrack (1989)
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  • Sebastian (spoken): Ariel, listen to me.
    The human world, it's a mess!
    Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there...

    (singing) 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 are you looking for

    Under the sea, under the sea
    Darlin' 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 are happy
    As off through the waves they roll

    The fish on the land ain't happy
    They're sad 'cause they're in a bowl

    But fish in the bowl is lucky
    They're in for a worser fate

    One day when the boss gets hungry
    Guess who's goin' be on the plate (uh-oh)

    Under the sea, under the sea
    Nobody beats us
    Fry us and eat us in fricasee

    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),
    Since life is sweet here
    We got the beat here naturally (naturally)

    Even the sturgeon an' the ray
    They get the urge an' start to play

    We got the spirit
    You got to hear it under the sea

    The newt play the flute
    The carp play the harp
    The plaice play the bass
    And they're soundin sharp.
    The bass play the brass
    The chub play the tub
    The fluke is the duke of soul
    (Yeah)

    They ray he can play
    He lings on the strings
    He trout rockin' out
    The blackfish she sings
    The smelt and the sprat
    They know where it's at
    An' 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 is 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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