Featuring: Jason Raize Scott Irby-Ranniar Tom Alan Robbins Max Casella

Songwriter: Tim Rice Elton John

Producer: Walt Disney Records

[TIMON]
Hakuna Matata!
What a wonderful phrase

[PUMBAA]
Hakuna Matata!
Ain't no passing craze

[TIMON]
It means no worries
For the rest of your days

[BOTH]
It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!

[TIMON]
Hakuna Matata!

[YOUNG SIMBA, spoken]
Hakuna Matata?

[PUMBAA, spoken]
Yeah. It's our motto!

[YOUNG SIMBA, spoken]
What's a motto?

[TIMON, spoken]
Nothin'! What's-a-motto with you?!

[PUMBAA, spoken]
Those two words will solve all your problems

[TIMON, spoken]
That's right. Take Pumbaa here
(sung)
Why, when he was a young warthog

[PUMBAA]
When I was a young warthog

[TIMON, spoken]
Very nice

[PUMBAA, spoken]
Thanks

[TIMON]
He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal
He could clear the savannah after ev'ry meal

[PUMBAA]
I'm a sensitive soul though I seem thick-skinned
And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind
And, oh, the shame

[TIMON]
Oh, the shame!

[PUMBAA]
Thought of changin' my name

[TIMON]
What's in a name?

[PUMBAA]
And I got downhearted

[TIMON]
How did ya feel?

[PUMBAA]
Ev'rytime that I -

[TIMON, spoken]
Hey, Pumbaa! Not in front of the kids!

[PUMBAA, spoken]
Oh, sorry

[BOTH]
Hakuna Matata!
What a wonderful phrase
Hakuna Matata!
Ain't no passing craze

[YOUNG SIMBA]
It means no worries
For the rest of your days

[ALL]
It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!
Hakuna Matata![x3]
Hakuna Matata!

[ADULT SIMBA]
It means no worries for the rest of your days

[ALL]
It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata! [repeat]

[PUMBAA]
I say "Hakuna"

[TIMON]
I say "Matata"

Original Broadway Cast of The Lion King

The Original Broadway Cast of the Broadway musical The Lion King is featured on the “The Lion King (Original Broadway Cast Recording”

(1997). They

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