"How Much You Mean to Me/Court Me Slowly" is a deleted song from Disney's 1970 film, The Aristocats. It was to have been a duet between Edgar and Elvira, a maid that was later removed from the story. After learning that he was to share Madame Bonfamille's fortune with his co-worker, Edgar would have begun to sing the song as a means of flattering her so that she would consent to marry him and he'd have access to her share. Unfortunately for him, Elvira had been anticipating such events and had been studying a marriage handbook in which the first rule was "never marry in haste". So, she would've begun to sing of romantic things, such as sending flowers and writing poems that Edgar could do first.
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Edgar: Do you know how much, how very very much
You mean to me?
Do you know how rich, how very, very rich
Our lives could be?
I value you, I prize you
And that is why I choose you
I alone know what you're worth my dear
I'd die if I would lose you
If you knew the wealth, the merry, merry wealth
Of joys that wait
On this very day, this very, very day
You'd set the date
Let us not delay, I pray
Let us marry right away
Let us not waste time, I want to make you mine
Right now, my dear
Elvira: Court me slowly
Send me pretty flowers
I need time for plans and bridal showers
Invitations must be engraved
Preparations must be made
Buy me bon-bons
Take me dinner dancing
Write me poems
Do your sweet romancing
Whisper nothings in my ear
Coax me, court me
Slowly, dear
