Be Our Guest

Ma chere mademoiselle It is with our 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, chere And we provide the rest Soup du jour? Hot hors d'oeuvres? Why we only live to serve Try the grey stuff It's delicious Don't believe me? Ask the dishes They can sing They can dance After all, miss, this is France And a dinner here is never second best! Go on unfold your menu Take a glance and then you'll Be our guest! Oui, our guest! Be our guest! Beef Ragout Cheese souffle Pie and pudding 'Et flambe!' We'll prepare And serve with flair A culinary caberet! You're alone! And you're scared! But the banquet's all prepared No one's gloomy or complaining While the flatwares entertaining We tell jokes! I do tricks! With my fellow candlesticks! And it's all in perfect taste That you can bet Come on and lift your glass You've won your own free pass To be our guest If you're stressed It's fine dining we suggest Be our guest! Be our guest! Be our guest! Life is so unnerving For a servant who's not serving He's not whole without a soul to wait upon Ah, those good old days when we were useful Suddenly those good old days are gone Ten years we've been rusting Needing so much more than dusting Needing exercise A chance to use our skills Most days we just lay around the castle Flabby, fat, and lazy Then you walk in and oopsy daisy It's a guest! It's a guest! Sakes alive! Well I've been blessed! Wines been poured Thank the lord I've had the napkins freshly pressed With dessert She'll want tea And my dear thats fine with me! While the cups do their soft-shoein I'll be bubbling! I'll be brewing! I'll get warm Piping hot! Heaven's sake! Is that a spot? Clean it up! We want the company impressed We've got a lot do Is it one lump or two? For you our guest She's our guest! She's our guest! She's 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 candelelight's still glowing Let us help you We'll keep going! Course by course One by one 'Til you shout "Enough! I'm done!" Then we'll sing you off to sleep as you digest 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!

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