A Guy Like You

"**A Guy Like You**" is a song featured in Disney's 1996 animated feature film, *The Hunchback of Notre Dame*. It is the gargoyles' chance to sing, assuring Quasimodo that Esmeralda loves him in the same way he loves her in a fun, Broadway-style musical number. Placing a comedic song after a dark, intense scene, such as "Hellfire" and the virtual destruction of Paris is a common technique allowing the audience to release tension in an appropriate time, thus allowing the climax to be appropriately dramatic for them. In *Der Glöckner von Notre Dame*, the song is akin to the movie, only the gargoyles use more French words and phases into the song instead of making visual gags.

## Lyrics

### Film Version

**Hugo:** Paris, the city of lovers

Is glowing this evening

True, that's because it's on fire

But still, there's "l'amour"

Somewhere out there in the night

Her heart is also alight

And I know the guy she just might be burning for

A guy like you

She's never known, kid

A guy like you

A girl does not

Meet every day

You've got a look

That's all your own, kid

Could there be two...?

**Victor and Laverne:** ...Like you?

**All Three:** No way!

**Hugo:** Those other guys

That she could dangle

All look the same

From every boring

Point of view

You're a surprise

From every angle

Mon Dieu above

She's gotta love

A guy like you

**Victor:** A guy like you

Gets extra credit

Because it's true

You've got a certain something more

**Hugo:** You're aces, kid

**Laverne:** You see that face

You don't forget it

**Victor and Laverne:** Want something new?

**Hugo:** That's you

**All Three:** For sure!

**Laverne:** We all have gaped

At some Adonis

**Victor:** But then we crave a meal

More nourishing

To chew

**Hugo:** And since you're shaped

Like a croissant is

**All Three:** No question of

She's gotta love

A guy like you!

**Laverne:** Call me a hopeless romatic

But Quasi, I feel it

**Victor:** She wants you so, any moment

She'll walk through that door

**All Three:** For

**Hugo:** A guy so swell

**Victor and Laverne:** A guy like you

**Hugo:** With all you bring her

**Victor and Laverne:** I tell you Quasi

**Hugo:** A fool could tell

**Victor and Laverne:** There never was

**Hugo:** It's why she fell

**Victor and Laverne:** Another, was he?

**Hugo:** For you-know-who

**Victor and Laverne:** From king to serf

To the bourgeoisie

**Hugo:** You ring the bell

**Victor and Laverne:** We notice every string there

**All Three:** You're the bell ringer!

When she wants ooh-la-la

Then she wants you-la-la

She will discover, guy

You're one heck of a guy

Who wouldn't love a guy

Like you?

**Hugo:** You got a lot

**Victor:** The rest have not

**Hugo:** So she's gotta love

A guy like...

**All three:** ...you!

### Musical Lyrics

ANTOINE:

Paris, the city of lovers

Is glowing this evening

True, that's because it's on fire

But still, there's "l'amour"

Somewhere out there in the night

Her heart is also a light

And I know the guy she just might

Be burning for

A guy like you

She's never known, boy

A guy like you

Has charms a girl has rarely shown

You've got a look

That's all your own, kid

Could there be two?

GARGOYLES:

Like you?

Mais non!

ANTOINE:

Those other guys

That she could dangle

All look the same

From every boring point of view

You're a surprise

From every angle

Mon Dieu above

She's gotta love

A guy like you

CHARLES:

A guy like you

Gets extra credit

For having, so to speak

His own unique allure

LONI:

You see that face

You don't forget it

GARGOYLES:

Want something new?

ANTOINE:

That's you

GARGOYLES:

Bien sur!

LONI:

We all have gaped

At some Adonis

CHARLES:

But then we crave a meal

More nourishing to chew

ANTOINE:

And since you've shaped

Like a croissant is

GARGOYLES:

No question of

She's gotta love

A guy like you!

LONI:

Sometimes the truth can be cruel,

Cheri, But let's face it

CHARLES:

There's no dispute

about who is the cutest of us

GARGOYLES:

Thus…

This mademoiselle

QUASIMODO:

My dear Miss E.

GARGOYLES:

What joy you bring her

QUASIMODO:

So sweet and shy like

GARGOYLES:

A fool could tell

QUASIMODO:

I'm sure that she

GARGOYLES:

It's why she fell

QUASIMODO:

Would like what I like

GARGOYLES:

For you-know-who

QUASIMODO:

And Mon Ami,

GARGOYLES:

You ring the bell

QUASIMODO

I am a guy like you know who

GARGOYLES

You're the bell ringer!

When she wants oo-la-la

Then she wants you la-la

She will discover why

You're one prince of a guy

Who wouldn't love a guy

Like you?

QUASIMODO

I’ve got a lot

The rest have not

So she's gotta love

A guy like me!