Under The Sea         

Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Performed by Sebastian the Crab (Samuel E. Wright)

Tabbed by Adam Bishop

I figured out the beginning of this song a long time ago, and it started 
to drive me nuts.  So I got the soundtrack from the library and figured 
out the rest of it.  I didn't do all the instrument parts, I just did 
the basic chord structures, because I couldn't be bothered learning and 
writing out fifteen different parts for one song.  There is a lot of 
repetition in the song, so I'm sure you'll figure it out even though I 
stopped writing the chords out.

Bb  - 688766
F   - x-8-10-10-10-8
Eb  - x68886
Bb7 - 688796
Gm  - x-10-12-12-11-10
C   - 8-10-10-9-8-8

Intro (steel drum?)

E|-----------6--6---6--5--8--6----------------6--6---------------
B|--------6---------------------6----------6---------6-----6-----
G|-----7--------------------------------7---------------5-----7--
D|--8--------------------------------8---------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------------------------

(Play this twice - doubled an octave higher the second time)

"Ariel, listen to me...the human world, it's a mess.  Life under the sea 
is better than anything they got up there!"

Bb
The seaweed is always greener
            F      Bb
In somebody else's lake
Bb
You dream about going up there
              F   Bb
But that is a big mistake

Eb               Bb
Just look at the world around you
F                 Bb
Right here on the ocean floor
Eb             Bb
Such wonderful things surround you
F                Bb
What more is you looking for?

          Eb     Bb
Under the sea
          F      Bb
Under the sea
Eb                                  F
Darling it's better down where it's wetter
             Bb    Bb7
Take it from me
          Eb                  F
Up on the shore they work all day

           Gm             C
Out in the sun they slave away
           Eb                  F
While we devoting full time to floating
          Bb
Under the sea

Down here all the fish is happy
As off through the waves they roll
The fish on the land ain't happy
They sad cause they in their bowl

But fish in the bowl is lucky
They in for a worser fate
One day when the boss get hungry
Guess who's gonna be on the plate

Under the sea
Under the sea
Nobody beat us fry us and eat us
In fricassee
We what the land folks loves to cook
Under the sea we off the hook
We got no troubles life is the bubbles
Under the sea
Under the sea
Since life is sweet here
We got the beat here
Naturally
Even the sturgeon and the ray
They get the urge and start to play
We got the spirit
You got to hear it
Under the sea

The newt play the flute the carp play the harp
The plaice play the bass and they sounding sharp
The bass play the brass the chub play the tub
The fluke is the duke of soul
The ray he can play the lings on the strings
The trout rockin' out the blackfish she sings
The smelt and the sprat they know where it's at
And oh that blowfish blow

(Horn solo)

(Move everything up one whole step)

Under the sea
Under the sea
When the sardine begin the beguine
It's music to me
What do they got, a lot of sand
We got a hot crustacean band
Each little clam here know how to jam here
Under the sea
Each little slug here cutting a rug here
Under the sea
Each little snail here know how to wail here
That's why it's hotter under the water
Ya we in luck here down in the muck here
Under the sea