Belle (song)

**Belle** is a song from Beauty and the Beast.

## Original Lyrics

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

Every day like the one before

Little town, full of little people

Waking up to say

**Man 1:** Bonjour!

**Man 2:** Bonjour!

**Woman 1:** Bonjour!

**Man 3:** Bonjour!

**Man 4:** Bonjour!

**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

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

**Belle:** *Good 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!*

**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!

**Bookseller:** *Ah, Belle.*

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

**Bookseller:** *Finished already?*

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

**Bookseller:** *Not since yesterday.*

**Belle:** *That's all right.*

*I'll borrow...this one!*

**Bookseller:** *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!*

**Bookseller:** *If you like it all that much, it's yours!*

**Belle:** *But sir!*

**Bookseller:** *I insist.*

**Belle:** *Well, thank you.*

*Thank you very much!*

**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!

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

**Gaston:** *I know!*

**LeFou:** *Huh. No beast alive stands a chance against you...and no girl for that matter!*

**Gaston:** *It's true, Lefou, and I've got my sights set on that one!*

**LeFou:** *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:** *And that makes her the best. And don't* I *deserve the best?*

**LeFou:** *Well of course, I mean you do, but I mean...*

**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!

**Man 2:** Good day!

**Woman 1:** You call this bacon?

**Man 4:** Some cheese, one pound.

**Cheese merchant:** I'll get the knife.

**Woman 4:** This bread – it's stale!

**Gaston:** Pardon!

**Man 3:** Mais oui!

**Woman 2:** What lovely grapes!

**Woman 3:** Ten yards!

**Townsfolk:** Well, maybe so!

Good morning!

Oh, good morning!

**Gaston:** 'Scuse me! Please let me through!

**Man 5:** Those fish, they smell!

**Baker:** Madame's mistaken.

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

**Gaston:** Just watch, I'm going to make Belle my wife

**Townsfolk and Kids:** Look there she goes

The girl is strange, but special

A most peculiar mademoiselle!

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!

**Man 1:** Bonjour!

**Woman 1:** Bonjour!

**Man 2:** Bonjour!

**Woman 2:** Bonjour!

**Man 3:** Bonjour!

**Man 4:** Bonjour!

## Reprise Lyrics

**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