"Kiss the Girl" is a song sung by Sebastian from the Disney animated film The Little Mermaid. It was composed by Alan Menken and the lyrics were written by Howard Ashman. In the movie, Samuel E. Wright performs it. The song was nominated Academy Award for Best Song with the song Under the Sea.
Midway through the film, Princess Ariel of Atlantica has already been turned into a human by the evil sea witch Ursula, but she can no longer speak. If Ariel cannot get her true love, the human Prince Eric, to kiss her before her 3 days have passed, she will turn back into a mermaid and belong to Ursula. Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle try to get Eric to kiss Ariel so that she can be a human permanently, while the two sit in a rowboat in a lagoon. Sebastian makes the suggestion that Eric does want to kiss Ariel but he is too shy to do so, and that he should go ahead and "kiss the girl" to see if she likes him too.
Lyrics[]
There, you see her
Sitting there, across the way
She don't got a lot to say, but there's something about her
And you don't know why, but you're dyin' to try
You wanna kiss the girl
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
Possible she want you too, there is one way to ask her
It don't take a word, not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl
Sing with me now.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, my, oh, my
Look like the boy too shy
He ain't gonna kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, ain't that sad?
Ain't it a shame? Too bad
He gonna miss the girl
[Instrumental]
Now's your moment
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Floating in a blue lagoon
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Boy, you better do it soon, no time will be better
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
She don't say a word and she won't say a word
Until you kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, don't be scared
You got the mood prepared
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Go on and kiss the girl
Whoa, whoa
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, don't stop now
Don't try to hide it how
You wanna kiss the girl
Whoa, whoa
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, float along
And listen to the song
The song say, "Kiss the girl"
Whoa, whoa
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, music play
Do what the music say
You gotta kiss the girl
You've got to
Kiss the girl
You wanna kiss the girl
You've gotta
Kiss the girl
Go on and
Kiss the girl