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Under The Sea Tab

by Alan Menken


ARTIST: Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
TITLE: Under the Sea

From the movie, The Little Mermaid

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Da seaweed is always greener
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In somebody else's lake
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You dream about going up dere
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But dat is a big mistake
   
Just look at da world around you
  
Right here on de ocean floor
   
Such wonderful things surround you
  
What more is you lookin' for

    
Under da sea, under da sea
     
Darling it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me
 
Up on da shore dey work all day
   
Out in da sun dey slave away
   
While we devotin' full time to floatin'
Under da sea

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Down here all de fish is happy
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As off t'rough da waves dey roll
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da fish on da land ain't happy
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dey sad 'cause dey in da bowl
   
But fish in da bowl is lucky
  
dey in for a worser fate
   
One day when da boss get hungry
  
Guess who gon' be on da plate

    
Under da sea, under da sea
     
Nobody beat us, fry us and eat us in fricassee
 
We what da land folks loves to cook
   
Under da sea we off da hook
   
We got no troubles, life is da bubbles
    
Under da sea Under da sea
     
Since life is sweet here, we got da beat here, naturally
 
Even da sturgeon an' de ray
   
dey get de urge 'n start to play
   
We got de spirit, you got to hear it
Under da sea

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da newt play da flute

de carp play de harp

de plaice play de bass

And dey soundin' sharp

da bass play da brass

da chub play da tub
  
da fluke is the duke of soul


da ray he can play

de ling's on de strings

da trout rockin' out

da blackfish she sings

da smelt and da sprat

dey know where it's at
 
An' oh, dat blowfish blow

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Under da sea, under da sea
     
When da sardine begin da beguine, it's music to me
 
What do dey got, a lot of sand
  
We got a hot crustacean band
   
Each little clam here know how to jam here
Under da sea
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Each little slug here cutting a rug here
Under da sea
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Each little snail here know how to wail here
 
dat's why it's hotter under da water
 
Ya, we in luck here, down in de muck here
Under da sea

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