"Work Song (Cinderelly, Cinderelly)" (also known as "Cinderelly") is a song written and composed by Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston for the film Cinderella. It is sung by Jaq, Gus, and other mice.
It was included in the Disney Sing Along Songs videos The Bare Necessities, Colors of the Wind, and Perfectly Princess.
Context[]
All the women in the kingdom have been invited to a ball at the castle, and Lady Tremaine allows Cinderella to attend it, provided that she gets all her work done and has a nice dress by then. Cinderella thinks about fixing up her mother's old dress and wearing it to the ball, before her stepfamily calls her down to serve them. Jaq, knowing full-well that they're going to run her ragged before she can have time to improve the dress, laments that it'll be impossible for her to go to the ball. Then, one of the mice gets the idea for them all to fix up the dress while she's working and surprise Cinderella later that evening.
Lyrics[]
Jaq: "Poor Cinderelly. Every time she find a minute, that's the time when they begin it! Cinderelly! Cinderelly!"
Anastasia and Drizella: "CINDERELLA!"
Jaq: Cinderelly Cinderelly
Night and day it's Cinderelly
Make the fire!
Fix the breakfast!
Wash the dishes!
Do the mopping!
Girl Mice: And the sweeping and the dusting!
They always keep her hopping!
Jaq: She go around in circles till she very, very dizzy
Still they holler...
Girl Mice: keep-a busy Cinderelly!
Jaq: "Yeah, keep-a busy. You know what? Cinderelly's not goin to the ball."
Mouse 1: "What?"
Mouse 2: "Not goin?"
Mice: "What did you say?"
Jaq: "You'll see. They fix her. Work, work, work. She'll never get her dress done."
Gus: "P-P-P-Poor Cinderelly."
Mary: "Hey! We can do it!"
We can do it, we can do it,
We can help-a Cinderelly
We can make a dress so pretty
There's nothing to it really.
Mice: We'll tie a sash around it
Pull a ribbon through it
When dancing at the ball
She'll be more beautiful than all
In the lovely dress we'll make for Cinderelly
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry
Gotta help-a Cinderelly
Got no time to dilly dally
We gotta get-a going
Gus: I'll cut it with these scissors
Jaq: And I can do the sewing
Mary: Leave the sewing to the women
You go get some trimming
Mice: And we'll make a lovely dress for Cinderelly
Yes, we'll make a lovely dress for Cinderelly!
Cinderella, Cinderella!
All I hear is "Cinderella!"
From the moment that I get up
Till shades of night are falling.
There isn't any letup. I hear them calling, calling.
"Go up and do the attic and go down and do the cellar!
You can do them both together, Cinderella!"
How lovely it would be
If I could live my fantasy,
But in the middle of my dreaming,
They're screaming
At me!
Cinderella, Cinderella!
All I hear is "Cinderella!"
From the moment that I get up
Till shades of night are calling.
There isn't any letup. I hear them calling, calling.
"Go up and do the attic and go down and do the cellar!
You can do them both together, Cinderella!"
Trivia[]
- The song was parodied in a Chowder episode called "Shnitzel Quits" when three different mice sang a song called "Schnitzel-Fella".
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