Belle

**Belle** is a song featured in Walt Disney Pictures' 30th animated feature film *Beauty and the Beast*, it features the townsfolk following their morning routines and commenting on Belle's odd tendencies, with the local hunter Gaston trying to win her in marriage.

## Lyrics

* Opening (1991)
* Reprise (1991)
* Opening (2017)
* Reprise (2017)

**Belle**: Little town, it's a quiet village

Every day like the one before

Little town, full of little people

Waking up to say

**Townsfolk**: Bonjour!(5x)

**Belle**: There goes the baker with his tray, like always

The same old bread and rolls to sell

Every morning just the same

Since the morning that we came

To this poor provincial town

(**Spoken**)

**Baker**: "Good morning, Belle!"

**Belle**: "Morning, monsieur."

**Baker**: "Where are you off to?"

**Belle**: "The bookshop. I just finished the most wonderful story about a beanstalk and an ogre and..."

**Baker**: "That's nice. Marie! The baguettes! Hurry up!"

(**Singing resumes**)

**Townsfolk**: Look there she goes, that girl is strange, no question

Dazed and distracted, can't you tell?

**Woman**: Never part of any crowd

**Barber**: Cause her head's up on some cloud

**Townsfolk**: No denying she's a funny girl that Belle

**Man 1**: Bonjour!

**Woman 1**: Good day!

**Man 1**: How is your fam'ly?

**Woman 2**: Bonjour!

**Man 2**: Good day!

**Woman 2**: How is your wife?

**Woman 3**: I need six eggs!

**Man 3**: That's too expensive!

**Belle**: There must be more than this provincial life!

(**Spoken**)

**Bookshop Clerk**: "Ah, Belle."

**Belle**: "Good morning. I've come to return the book I borrowed."

**Bookshop Clerk**: "Finished already?"

**Belle**: "Oh, I couldn't put it down. Have you got anything new?"

**Bookshop Clerk**: "Ha-Ha. Not since yesterday."

**Belle**: "That's alright. I'll borrow... This one!"

**Bookshop Clerk**: "That one? But you've read it twice!"

**Belle**: "Well, it's my favorite! Far off places, daring swordfights, magic spells, a prince in disguise."

**Bookshop Clerk**: "If you like it all that much, it's yours."

**Belle**: "But, sir..."

**Bookstore Clerk**: "I insist."

**Belle**: "Well, thank you! Thank you very much!"

(**Singing Resumes**)

**Townsfolk**: Look there she goes, that girl is so peculiar

I wonder if she's feeling well

With a dreamy, far-off look

And her nose stuck in a book

What a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle

**Belle**: Oh, isn't this amazing?

It's my favorite part because you'll see

Here's where she meets Prince Charming

But she won't discover that it's him 'til chapter three!

**Woman**: Now it's no wonder that her name means "beauty"

Her looks have got no parallel

**Shopkeeper**: But behind that fair façade

I'm afraid she's rather odd

Very diff'rent from the rest of us

Townsfolk: She's nothing like the rest of us

Yes, diff'rent from the rest of us is Belle!

(**Speaking**)

**LeFou**: "Wow! You didn't miss a shot, Gaston! You're the greatest hunter in the whole world!"

**Gaston**: "I know."

**LeFou**: "No beast alive stands a chance against you. Ha-Ha-Ha! And no girl, for that matter."

**Gaston**: "It's true, LeFou. And I've got my sights set on that one."

**LeFou**: "Humph! The inventor's daughter?!"

**Gaston**: "She's the one! The lucky girl I'm going to marry."

**LeFou**: "But, she's..."

**Gaston**: "The most beautiful girl in town."

**LeFou**: "I know, but..."

**Gaston**: "That makes her the best! And don't I deserve the best?"

**LeFou**: "Well, of course! I mean, you do! But, I mean..."

(**Singing resumes**)

**Gaston**: Right from the moment when I met her, saw her

I said she's gorgeous and I fell

Here in town there's only she

Who is beautiful as me

So I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle

**Bimbettes**: Look there he goes

Isn't he dreamy?

Monsieur Gaston

Oh he's so cute!

Be still my heart

I'm hardly breathing

He's such a tall, dark, strong and handsome brute!

**Man 1**: Bonjour! **Gaston**: Pardon

**Man 2** : Good day! **Man 3**: Mais oui!

**Woman 1**: You call this bacon? **Woman 2**: What lovely grapes!

**Man 4**: Some cheese, one pound. **Woman 3**: Ten yards!

**Cheese merchant**: I'll get the knife. **Gaston**: 'Scuse me! Please let me through!

**Woman 4**: This bread – it's stale! **Man 5**: Those fish, they smell

**Baker**: Madame's mistaken. **Townsfolk**: Well, maybe so!

**Belle**: There must be more than this provincial life! Good morning!

**Gaston**: Just watch, I'm going to make Belle my wife! Oh good morning!

**Townsfolk**: Look there she goes

 The girl is strange, but special

A most peculiar mad'moiselle!

It's a pity and a sin

She doesn't quite fit in

'Cause she really is a funny girl

A beauty but a funny girl

She really is a funny girl

That Belle!

**Townsfolk**: Bonjour!(6x)

**Belle**: *Is he gone?*

*Can you imagine? He asked me to marry him!*
Me! The wife of that boorish, brainless...

Madame Gaston!

Can't you just see it?

Madame Gaston!

His little wife

No, sir!

Not me!

I guarantee it

I want much more than this provincial life!

I want adventure in the great wide somewhere

I want it more than I can tell

And for once it might be grand

To have someone understand

I want so much more than they've got planned

**Belle**: Little town, it's a quiet village

Every day like the one before

Little town, full of little people

Waking up to say

**Townsfolk:** Bonjour!(x5)

**Belle**: There goes the baker with his tray, like always

The same old bread and rolls to sell

Every morning just the same

Since the morning that we came

To this poor, provincial town

**Monsieur Jean**: *Good morning, Belle!*

**Belle**: *Good morning, Monsieur Jean. Have you lost something again?*

**Monsieur Jean**: *Well, I believe I have. Problem is, I... can’t remember what. Oh well, I’m sure it’ll come to me. Where are you off to?*

**Belle**: *To return this book to Pére Robert. It’s about two lovers in fair Verona.*

**Monsieur Jean**: *Sounds boring.*

**Schoolboys**: Look, there she goes, that girl is strange, no question

**Headmaster**: Dazed and distracted, can’t you tell?

**Washerwomen**: Never part of any crowd

Cos her head’s up on some cloud

**Young girls**: No denying she’s a funny girl, that Belle

**Man**: Bonjour, good day!

How is your fam'ly?

**Woman**: Bonjour, good day!

How is your wife?

**Clothilde**: I need six eggs!

That's too expensive!

**Belle**: There must be more than this provincial life

(*Spoken*)

**Pére Robert**: *Ah, if it isn't the only bookworm in town! Where did you run off to this week?*

**Belle**: *Two cities in Northern Italy. I didn't want to come back. Have you got any new places to go?*

**Pére Robert**: *I'm afraid not... But you may reread any of the old ones if you'd like.*

**Belle**: *Your library makes our small corner of the world feel big.*

**Père Robert**: *Bon voyage!*

(*Singing resumes*)

**Townsfolk**: Look, there she goes, that girl is so peculiar

I wonder if she's feeling well

With a dreamy, far-off look

And her nose stuck in a book

What a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle

**Belle**: Ohhh, isn't this amazing?

It's my favorite part because you'll see

Here's where she meets Prince Charming

But she won’t discover that it's him till Chapter Three!

**Woman**: Now, it's no wonder that her name means 'beauty'

Her looks have got no parallel!

**Village Lasses**: But behind that fair façade

I’m afraid she's rather odd

**Woman**: Very diff'rent from the rest of us

**Village Lasses**: She's nothing like the rest of us

**Townsfolk**: Yes, diff'rent from the rest of us is Belle!

(*Spoken*)

**Gaston**: *Look at her, LeFou. My future wife. Belle is the most beautiful girl in the village. That makes her the best.*

**LeFou**: *But she's so...well-read. And you're so...athletically-inclined.*

**Gaston**: *Yes... But ever since the war, I've felt like I've been missing something. And she’s the only girl that gives me that sense of-*

**LeFou**: *Mmm... je ne sais quoi (*I don't know what*)?*

**Gaston**: *I don't know what that means.*

(*Singing resumes*)

Right from the moment when I met her, saw her

I said she's gorgeous and I fell

Here in town, there's only she

Who is beautiful as me

So I’m making plans to woo and marry Belle

**Village Lasses**: Look, there he goes

Isn't he dreamy?

Monsieur Gaston

Oh he's so cute!

Be still, my heart

I'm hardly breathing

He's such a tall, dark, strong and handsome brute!

**Man 1**: Bonjour! **Gaston**: Pardon

**Man 2** : Good day! **Man 3**: Mais oui!

**Woman 1**: You call this bacon? **Woman 2**: What lovely grapes!

**Man 4**: Some cheese, one pound. **Woman 3**: Ten yards!

**Cheese merchant**: I'll get the knife. **Gaston**: 'Scuse me! Please let me through!

**Woman 4**: This bread – it's stale! **Man 5**: Those fish, they smell

**Baker**: Madame's mistaken. **Townsfolk**: Well, maybe so!

**Belle**: There must be more than this provincial life! Good morning!

**Gaston**: Just watch, I'm going to make Belle my wife! Oh good morning!

**Townsfolk:** Look, there she goes, that girl is strange but special

A most peculiar mad'moiselle

It's a pity and a sin

She doesn't quite fit in

Cos she really is a funny girl

A beauty, but a funny girl

She really is a funny girl

That Belle!

**Belle**: *Can you imagine?*

*Me! The wife of that boorish, brainless...*

Madame Gaston!

Can't you just see it?

Madame Gaston!

His little wife

*Ugh!* No, sir!

Not me!

I guarantee it

I want much more than this provincial life!

I want adventure in the great wide somewhere

I want it more than I can tell

And for once it might be grand

To have someone understand

I want so much more than they've got planned