Columbia Law Revue

Just Get a B

to "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid

The grade curve is oh so steep, yah
You worry you have no A's
You want to go study harder
But dat is a big mistake
Just look at the gunners round you
Right here in the library
They all lookin' sad and burned out
Is dis what you want to be?
No no

Just get a B
Just get a B
Darlin', don't lament
Don't need to make Kent
Take it from me
You could just read your books all day
Watchin' your life just slip away
We say, stop thinkin'
Let's go out drinkin'!
Just get a B

The slackers know to be happy
Law school is for havin' fun
The gunners and nerds ain't happy
Fightin' to be number one
And even if they get their A's
They in for a worser plight
They then have to join a journal
And bluebook notes through the night
Oh no

Just get a B
Just get a B
Nobody make us
Spend our vacations
On cite-checkin'
We got no notes we have to write
We can just party through the night
Classes, we skip 'em
Nobody miss 'em
Give us a B
We'll take the B
Follow our rhyme here
You'll have good time here
We guarantee (Pass me a beer-beer-beer-beer)
Law school is no stress if you say
I just won't read my books today
Life is too short, dear
To study torts, dear
Just get a B

Civ pro's gotta go, and crim law's a crime
And real property's a real waste of time
Contracts, take it back, moot court is a bore
Con law is a suspect class
Law school is a big conspiracy
You just need two years; they make you take three
We don't need the class; we just need to pass
And B's are fine with me!

Just get a B
Just get a B
Don't have to cram
Till the bar exam
That's all that you need (To be attorneys)
Gunners think they've more expertise
But we get identical degrees
They all have the same
Ivy League school name
Just get a B
No one gives two shits
What's on your transcripts
Just get a B
We all get jobs here
So what's the prob here?
Even with no A's
Law firms will still pay
One forty-five is
Enough to survive with
So just get a B!

The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there
But dat is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more is you lookin' for?

Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling, it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
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 gon' be on the plate
Oh no

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 (Naturally-hee-hee)
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 soundin' 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
An' oh that blowfish blow!

Under the sea
Under the sea
When the sardine
Begin the beguine
It's music to me (Music is 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
Cuttin' 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!

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