Be Our Guest

***Be Our Guest*** is a song performed by Lumiere and the rest of the staff.

## **Introduction**

Ma chère 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!

## **Lyrics**

**Lumière:**

*Be our guest*

*Be our guest!*

*Put our service to the test*

*Tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie*

*And we'll 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 soufflé*

*Pie and pudding, en flambé*

*We'll prepare and serve with flair*

*A culinary cabaret!*

*You're alone*

*And you're scared*

*But the banquet's all prepared*

*No one's gloomy or complaining*

*While the flatware's entertaining*

*We tell jokes!*

*I do tricks*

*With my fellow candlesticks!*

**Chorus:**

*And it's all in perfect taste*

*That you can bet*

**Lumière:**

*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!*

**Chorus:**

*Be our guest! Be our guest!*

**Lumière:**

*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*

*—Eh, Cogsworth?*

*Suddenly those good old days are gone*

*Too long, 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*

*You walked in and oops-a-daisy*

**Mrs. Potts:**

*It's a guest! It's a guest!*

*Sake's alive, well I'll be blessed!*

*Wine's been poured and thank the Lord*

*I've had the napkins freshly pressed*

*With dessert, she'll want tea*

*And my dear, that's 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 sakes! 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!*

**Lumière and chorus:**

*She's our guest!*

**Mrs. Potts:**

*She's our guest!*

**Cogsworth and chorus:**

*She's our guest!*

**Plumette and chorus:**

*Be our guest! Be our guest!*

*Our command is your request*

*It's been years since we've had anybody here*

*And we're obsessed*

**Lumière and chorus:**

*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*

*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!*

## Trivia

In the 1991 film, you can see 2 items on the menu:

* Entrees.
	+ Beef Ragout.
* Desserts.
	+ Pudding Pie.

In the 2017 film, you can see the entire menu, for only 1 second on screen:

* Diner (Dinner).
	+ Hors d’oeuvres (appetizers).
		- Soup du jour: Soupe à l’oignon (soup of the day: French onion soup).
		- Cuisses de grenouilles (frog legs).
		- Artichauts (artichokes).
		- Escargots (snails).
		- Caviar (fish eggs).
		- Baguettes fraiches (fresh baguettes).
	+ Plats Principaux (Main dishes).
		- Ragoût de boeuf (beef ragout).
		- Couronne d’Agneau (crown of lamb).
		- Poissons Flammé (flamed fish).
		- Perdrix rôtie (roasted partridge).
		- Camembert Grillé (grilled camembert).
		- Canard Laqué (Peking duck).
	+ Pommes de Terres (potatoes).
		- Pommes sâutees (fried potatoes).
		- Pommes de Terre (potatoes).
		- Patate au four (baked potato).
		- Bouillies (boiled).
	+ Poissons (Pisces/fish).
		- Maquereau à la flammé (flamed mackerel).
		- Saumon au naturel (raw salmon).
		- Homard Dressés (dressed lobster).
	+ Légumes (vegetables).
		- Poireaux braisés (braised leeks).
		- Aspic de Légumes (vegetable aspic).
		- Panais (parsnips).
		- Carottes nouvelles (new carrots).
		- Choux de Bruxelles (brussel sprouts).
		- Oignons grilles (grilled onions).
		- Tomates farcies (stuffed tomatoes).
		- Omelette d'épinards (spinach omelets).
		- Chou Marin Bouilli (boiled cabbage).
		- Choux cabus (cabbage).
		- Salade César (Caesar salad).
		- Haricots verts (green beans).
	+ Desserts.
		- Gelée à la Bellevue (Jelly à la Bellevue).
		- Pudding Flambé (Flambé Pudding).
		- Blancmange à la Vanilla (Vanilla Blancmange).
		- Pommes à la Parisienne (Apples à la Parisienne).
		- Macédoine de fruits en gelée (Macedonia of fruits with jelly).
		- Fraises (strawberries).
	+ Sélection de Gâteaux (selection of cakes).