"Sing, Sweet Nightingale" is a song featured in the 1950 Disney animated feature film Cinderella. It is sung by Cinderella, Drizella, and Lady Tremaine. Anastasia plays the flute during it. At first, it is being sung poorly by Drizella during her music lesson. A distressed Lucifer leaves the room only to hear Cinderella's lovely voice singing along while she scrubs the floors of the château's entrance hall. The song ended when Anastasia gets her finger stuck on her flute and accidentally hits Drizella in the chin repeatedly while trying to get her finger unstuck from her flute. Drizella then calls her sister clumsy and hits her on the head with her flute until Lady Tremaine breaks their fight.
On the Disney's Greatest Lullabies: Volume 1 VHS, the song is set to clips from Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, The Rescuers, Dumbo, Peter Pan, and Fantasia.
Lyrics
Lady Tremaine: The pear-shaped tone
Drizella:
Oh....
Sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
High above me
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
Cinderella:
High above
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale, high
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet
Oh, sing sweet nightingale, sing
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Oh, sing sweet
Oh, sing
Drizella:
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
High-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh
Trivia
- Each new line of the song omits the last word of the line sung before it.
- The song serves as the inspiration for the piano bar "Nightingale's" on board the Disney Wish.
- Although the original English version has Drizella sing on-key but in a strained chest voice, most dubs of the song have her sing off-key and nasally.
