"Give a Little Whistle" is a song featured in Walt Disney's Pinocchio, sung by Jiminy Cricket (Cliff Edwards) and Pinocchio (Dickie Jones).
The song is sung when Jiminy tries to explain the matters of being a conscience to Pinocchio, and tells him if he needs him he can call on Jiminy.
Lyrics
Jiminy: When you get in trouble and you don't know right from wrong,
Give a Little Whistle, Give a Little Whistle!
When you meet temptations and the urge is very strong
Give a Little Whistle! Give a Little Whistle!
Not Just a little squeak, pucker up and blow.
And when your whistle's weak yell.
Pinocchio: Jiminy Cricket
Jiminy: Take the straight and narrow path and if you start to slide
Give a Little Whistle! Give a Little Whistle!
And always let your conscience be your guide.
Take the straight and narrow path and if your start to slide
Give a Little Whistle! Give a Little Whistle!
And always let your conscience be your guide.
Pinocchio: And always let your conscience be your guide!
Behind the Scenes
- Ward Kimball's animation of Jiminy Cricket in this scene was the first to be completed for the film.
- Jiminy Cricket is bouncing up and down onto the saw is whistling, holds his two feet for his two legs up to bounce on the saw, fixing his yellow necktie to bounce, flying up higher like a bird, and bounced up into the farm of cuckoo clock.
'Give a Little Whistle' sequence
- Jiminy Cricket is on the sequence for the song for Give a Little Whistle. The storyboard will do the sequence called, Cricket Sings for Pinocchio is on Sequence 1.6 with Walt Disney.
- Animators Ward Kimball, Don Towsley, Bernard Wolf, and John Elloitte is working on Jiminy for the song.
- The film is beginning the sequence: Jiminy is sliding up and down on the string of violin. Jiminy is imitating a trombone with his red umbrella, smelling a pipe and reeled around until he falls off the shelf. Jiminy is falling from the shelf. Until he's bouncing up and down onto the saw. Jiminy flies up into the cuckoo clock, using a umbrella on the clock hand, knocks on the door, marching with Swiss farm bell ringers, a cow, and a farmer's daughter. And Jiminy sings the end of the words, "And always let your conscience be your guide" and hits the door into his face.
- Scene 33: Jiminy Cricket is imitating a trombone with his red umbrella, until he's smelling a pipe and reeled around for a breath to make him dizzy, until he's falling off the shelf.
- Scene 34: Jiminy Cricket is falling from the shelf. Until he's landing onto the saw is whistling, holds his two feet for his two legs up to bounce on the saw, fixing his yellow necktie to bounce, flying up higher like a bird, and bounced up into the farm of cuckoo clock. Jiminy cricket is tap dancing on the cuckoo clock and using the clock hand on 11:30.
- Scene 35-40: Jiminy Cricket knocked on the door, marching with Swiss farmer and his wife as a bell ringers, a cow, and a farmer's daughter.
- Scene 41: Jiminy Cricket whoops for the farmer's daughter who was looking at him, dancing in waltz to followed her, hitting into the door is closing until his face was hitting to the ground.
