I’ve Got No Strings

Song lyrics to I’ve Got No Strings (1940) from Disney’s Pinocchio – Music by Leigh Harline, Lyrics by Ned Washington

I’ve got no strings,
To hold me down,
To make me fret,
or make me frown.
I had strings,
But now I’m free,
There are no strings on me.

Hi-ho the me-ri-o,
That’s the only way to go.

I want the world to know,
Nothing ever worries me.

I’ve got no strings,
So I have fun,
I’m not tied up to anyone.

They’ve got strings,
But you can see,
There are no strings on me.

Dutch Puppet
You have no strings,
Your arms is free,
To love me by the Zuider Zee.

Ya, ya, ya,
If you would woo,
I’d bust my strings for you.

French Puppet
You’ve got no strings,
Comme ci comme ca,
Your savoire-faire is ooh la la!

I’ve got strings,
But entre nous,
I’d cut my strings for you.

Russian Puppet
Down where the Volga flows,
There’s a Russian rendezvous.

Where me and Ivan go,
But I’d rather go with you, hey!

Pinocchio
There are no strings on me!

I’ve Got No Strings in Media

• Most famously in the 1940 Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
• The song was also featured in the 2000 television film Geppetto sung by Seth Adkins,
• And in a 2022 live-action remake.
• The song were featured in the Marvel film Avengers: Age of Ultron – used by the robotic Ultra to declare that he was following his own orders, not Tony Stark’s.