Featuring: Scott Irby-Ranniar Geoff Hoyle Kajuana Shuford

Songwriter: Hans Zimmer Tim Rice Elton John

Producer: Walt Disney Records

[ENSEMBLE]
Hem
Hem
Hem

[YOUNG SIMBA]
I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!

[ZAZU]
Well I've never seen a king of beasts
With quite so little hair

[YOUNG SIMBA]
I'm gonna be the mane event
Like no king was before
I'm brushing up on looking down
I'm working on my roar

[ZAZU]
Thus far, a rather uninspiring thing

[YOUNG SIMBA]
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

[YOUNG SIMBA]
No one saying do this

[ZAZU]
Now when I said that

[YOUNG NALA]
No one saying be there

[ZAZU]
What I meant was

[YOUNG SIMBA]
No one saying stop that

[ZAZU]
What you don't realize

[YOUNG NALA & YOUNG SIMBA]
No one saying see here

[ZAZU]
Now see here!

[YOUNG NALA & YOUNG SIMBA]
Free to run around all day

[ZAZU]
That's definitely out!

[YOUNG SIMBA]
Free to do it all my way

[ZAZU]
I think it's time that you and I
Arranged a heart-to-heart

[YOUNG NALA]
Kings don't need advice
From little hornbills for a start

[ZAZU]
If this is where the monarchy is headed
Count me out
Out of service, out of Africa
I wouldn't hang about
This child is getting wildly out of wing

[YOUNG SIMBA]
Oh, I just can't wait to be king

Everybody look left

[YOUNG NALA]
Everybody look right

[YOUNG SIMBA]
Everywhere you look I'm

[YOUNG NALA & YOUNG SIMBA]
Standing in the spotlight

[ZAZU]
Not yet!

[YOUNG NALA & YOUNG SIMBA & ANIMALS]
Let every creature go for broke and sing
Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing
It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling

[YOUNG SIMBA]
Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

[YOUNG NALA]
Oh, he just can't wait to be king!

[YOUNG SIMBA]
Oh, I just can't wait

[YOUNG NALA]
Just can't wait

[YOUNG NALA & YOUNG SIMBA]
To be king!

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

Tsidii Le Loka as Rafiki