Etiquette is a song written by the Sherman Brothers for the 1992 animated film, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.
Lyrics[]
Nemo: Who are all these people?
Professor Genius: Why they're your teachers my boy now let the lessons begin.
Teachers: Oh, you've got to get some Etiquette if you want to be a prince. So we're here to meet you and to teach lots of handy hints. How to sit and stand, how to look real grande with a proper attitude. Well, you've got to get some etiquette 'cause a prince is never rude. You've got to get some Etiquette in the way you eat your food.
Butler: Shoulders back use your spoon yummy lunch at half past noon.
Professor Genius: Very good oh my.
Dancing Teacher: It's time to dance.
Dancing Teacher: You've got to get some etiquette when you're on the ballroom floor. If you lose your grip and you slide and slip, you'll become a dreadful bore. But turn and twirl your graceful swirl, and you'll get your royal chart. Oh, you've got to get some etiquette 'cause a prince must learn to dance.
Fencing Teacher: En garde mon affon.
Nemo: What?
Fencing Teacher: Then we thrust and parry. Oh, you've got to ge ze etiquette of fencing to royally keep on ze royal toes.
Nemo: Thrust parry thrust parry slush jab take that parry
Librarian: And you've got to get your hooks in a lot of proper books 'cause a proper education always shows.
Nemo: Please stand when a lady enters the room, don't spit in public, please stand up straight, don't raise your raise, please hold the doors open for the elderly, and don't pick your nose.
Horse Teacher: Oh, you've got to get some etiquette in the way you ride a steed. So of course, a course in horsemanship is exactly what you need. Sit erect sit erect Nemo.
Nemo: What? Not again.
Teachers: Oh, you've got to get some Etiquette, if you want to be a prince. So we're here to meet you and to teach lots of handy hints. How to sit and stand, how to look real grande with a proper attitude. You've got to get some Etiquette in the way you eat your food.
Dancing Teacher: A prince must learn to dance.
Fencing Teacher: You've got to learn to fence.
Librarian: And read the proper books.
Horse Teacher: And ride upon a horse.
Teachers: If you want to be a prince.
Little Nemo - Etiquette - Sing Along