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Be Our Guest
Various Artists Lumiere: Jerry Orbach Mrs. Potts: Angela Lansbury LUMIERE: Ma chere mademoiselle, it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now, we invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair as the dining room proudly presents...your dinner. Be our guest. Be our guest. Put our service to the test. Tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie, and we provide the rest. Soup du jour, hot hors d'oeuvres. Why, we only live to serve! Try the gray stuff, it's delicious. Don't believe me? Ask the dishes! And a dinner here is never second best. They can sing, they can dance. After all, miss, this is France. Take a glance and then you'll be our guest. Go on, unfold your menu. Oui, our guest. Be our guest! LUMIERE AND Pie and pudding en flambe. Beef ragout, cheese souffle. We'll prepare and serve with flair a culinary cabaret! LUMIERE but the banquet's all prepared. You're alone and you're scared, No one's gloomy or complaining, while the flatware's entertaining! with my fellow candlesticks. We tell jokes. I do tricks, BEERSTEINS Und it's all in perfect taste that you can bet. Come on and lift your glass. You've won your own free pass, LUMIERE AND to be our guest. LUMIERE If you're stressed, it's fine dining we suggest! Be our guest. Be our guest. Be our guest! LUMIERE AND LUMIERE He's not whole without a soul to wait upon. Life is so unnerving for a servant who's not serving. Ah, those good old days when we were useful. Suddenly those good old days are gone. needing so much more than dusting. Ten years we've been rusting, Needing exercise, a chance to use our skill. Most days we just lay around the castle. Flabby, fat and lazy, you walked in and oops It's a guest! It's a guest! MRS. POTTS Sakes alive, well, I'll be blessed! I've had the napkins freshly pressed. Wine's been poured and thank the Lord, With dessert, she'll want tea. And, my dear, that's fine with me. While the cups do their softI'll be bubblin'! I'll be brewin'! I'll get warm, piping hot. Heavens sake, is that a spot? Clean it up! We want the company impressed. We've got a lot to do! Is it one lump or two? For you, our guest. She's our guest! She's our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest! Our command is your request. It's ten years since we've had anybody here, and we're obsessed! With your meal, with your ease, yes, indeed, we aim to please. While the candlelight's still glowing, Let us help you, we'll keep going! LUMIERE AND Course by course, one by one! Then we'll sing you off to sleep as you digest. 'Till you shout, "Enough, I'm done!" Tonight you'll prop your feet up! But for now, let's eat up! Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest! Please be our guest |
