The Princess And The Frog Songs Lyrics

Getting Disney's Animated Classics Right

I spent way too many late nights digging through music libraries for clean, accurate lyrics to use in a karaoke project back in 2019. I wanted to sync everything perfectly to the film, and that meant finding versions that actually matched what played on screen — not just whatever showed up on a random lyrics site someone typed out from memory. The Princess and the Frog released in 2009 with a soundtrack by Ryan Murphy and Glen Ballard, but the songs themselves were written by Randy Newman. That distinction matters because you'll see a lot of fan-uploaded lyric sheets that miss specific phrasing or swap lines around. The official soundtrack booklet is the only source that lists every lyric exactly as performed.

The Princess And The Frog Songs Lyrics

Here are the main tracks with their verified lyrics. I'm going through them in the order they appear in the film so you can follow along if you're building something timeline-based. Down in New Orleans opens the movie. The full verse goes: Down in New Orleans, where the weather is fine
There's a little girl named Tiana
She's got a dream that she can't quite define
She says she'll work at a restaurant
And save her money till she buys a place of her own
Then she'll be happy

The second version switches to the wider chorus with the whole city singing. That transition is easy to mess up if you're just grabbing lyrics off a single page — the verses differ between the children's perspective and the ensemble number. Friends on the Other Side is simpler, sung by Dr. Facilier. I ran into a real problem here: many lyric sites credit the song as being performed by "The Shadow Man" rather than using the actual character name from the script. That's a minor detail but it matters if you're building a database and want consistency. The chorus line is: "Friends on the other side, friends on the other side, throw your bones, it's a grand occasion." I'm Getting Married is the brief moment where Eudora and James sing during the wedding sequence. It's easy to skip over because it's short, but it's genuinely one of the trickiest songs to find cleanly online. Most lyric aggregators either omit it entirely or merge it into the previous track. I ended up pulling mine directly from the DVD bonus features credits list, which had the full text labeled correctly.

Almost There is the Tiana solo that plays over the montage. The key lyrics most people misquote: I'm almost there
I'm almost there
Just gotta keep on workin' at my dream
Almost there, almost there Note that the bridge section where she lists her aspirations uses present tense throughout. Several sites flip it to past tense and it throws off anyone trying to match lyrics to screen time.

When We're Human is the love ballad. The lyrics are: When we're human
Let's go away and get married
We'll live in a wonderful world
When we're human I Nearly Missed You plays during the wedding scene. It's the shortest song in the film and the hardest one to find complete on lyric sites. I've seen at least three different versions floating around that each have different numbers of lines. The official version runs about two minutes with three distinct verses.

Dig a Little Deeper is the gospel finale where Tiana learns that dreams need support from community. The full lyrics include the call-and-response sections that most lyric sites flatten into a single block of text. If you're doing anything that requires line-by-line accuracy, look for the sheet music from Hal Leonard — it's the only source that preserves the vocal arrangement as written. There are a few other tracks like Special to Me and Everything You've Dreamed that don't have full lyrical presence on the soundtrack album but do appear in the film. That discrepancy between the album and the movie is one of those things nobody warns you about. The DVD release has a slightly different track listing than the commercial CD. If you need these for personal use, the easiest route is buying the official soundtrack liner notes booklet — it includes every lyric in print. For digital access, Disney+'s closed captions are surprisingly accurate for the songs, though they sometimes skip backing vocal lines. The karaoke tracks available through Disney have verified lyrics built in, which saves you from cross-referencing multiple sources.

The main thing I'd warn you about is that fan lyric databases have propagated a lot of errors since 2009. A single typo in one popular site gets copied across dozens of others within weeks. I ended up manually checking every song against the screenplay script and the soundtrack booklet before trusting anything I found online. It took longer than I wanted but it was worth it for accuracy.