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!
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!
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